51.   It also maintained farm programs, although slightly reducing subsidies, and retained welfare programs as a federal entitlement, while mandating states to require recipients to work.

52.   Lawmakers and lobbyists warned sugar growers Wednesday that the multimillion-dollar war to save their federal farm program is far from won on Capitol Hill.

53.   Lawmakers also passed measures revamping welfare, opening the telecommunications industry to greater competition and overhauling the federal farm program.

54.   Lugar did not address those broader questions, but instead focused on how farm programs will fare in the budget debate.

55.   Lugar said senators were free to propose deeper cuts in nutrition programs when the committee takes up a comprehensive bill to reauthorize farm programs later this year.

56.   Many congressional panels have heard testimony on the problems facing Medicare, Medicaid and the farm program but not on the legislation aimed at solving those problems.

57.   --Nine loan-making regulations in the farm credit program are being merged into one.

58.   No farm program took deeper cuts in the Senate than the dairy program.

59.   Nearly every problem of the federal farm program is magnified in Stuttgart and its environs.

60.   Nethercutt wants a seat on the Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee, which dispenses money for farm programs.