11.   In one party caucus this week, Republican say, Tom Latham of Iowa talked of the dissidents who were defying the Republican conference by undermining the agriculture bill.

12.   President Clinton must also make clear that he will veto the agriculture appropriations bill if it arrives on his desk containing this kind of limitation.

13.   Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., has single-handedly pushed a protectionist trade provision into an agriculture spending bill that now goes to President Clinton.

14.   The agriculture bill eventually passed, unlike the financial-services bill.

15.   The agriculture bill also includes a measure to allow pharmacies and wholesalers to import cheaply priced American-made prescription drugs from abroad, with certain restrictions.

16.   The agriculture bill includes a measure to allow pharmacies and wholesalers to reimport cheaply priced American-made prescription drugs that had been exported, with certain restrictions.

17.   The agriculture bill is stymied because of internal wrangling over the Cuba trade embargo and milk pricing policies for the South and Northeast.

18.   The current agriculture spending bill includes an amendment I wrote that would lift all food and medicine sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea and Sudan.

19.   The full Senate unanimously passed the agriculture appropriations bill.

20.   The measure, sponsored by Rep. George Nethercutt, a Washington Republican, has delayed consideration of the huge agriculture spending bill.