This has been circulated from Jim Hoyer at Indiana Citizen Action
Coalition.

             Lugar's Motion Kills Competition Title in a 9-12 Committee
Vote

  By defeating the competition title yesterday, the Senate Agriculture
Committee missed an opportunity to address the massive problems faced by
Hoosier family farmers due to increasing corporate consolidation and
control of our food system.

  Yesterday Senator Lugar made a motion to kill this
family-farmer-friendly title that needs to be a part of the next farm
bill. Lugar's  motion passed 9-12 thus defeating the entire competition
title. There is still hope that the competition title will be
reintroduced  when the farm bill goes to the entire Senate floor for a
vote.

  Below I have included a list of Lugar donors who actively opposed the
competition title.  I have also included the summary of what took place
during yesterday's committee hearing.

  Feel free to contact Lugar and voice your opinion on what kind of a
job he did representing family farmers yesterday.

  Lugar's contact info...
  Senator  Richard Lugar (R-IN)
  Contact: Danny Spellacy
  Phone:   202-224-2035
  FAX:        202-224-1725
  email:     [log in to unmask]

  Thank you,

  Jim Hoyer
  Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
  404 E. Main St.
  New Albany, IN 47150
  Ph: (812) 941-1170; Fax: (812) 941-0562
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  Below is a list of some of the organizations that actively opposed the
competition title and the amount of money they have
  donated to Senator Lugar since 1997.  The info was compiled from the
Federal Election Commission Website
  (http://www.fec.gov/).  It includes donations that have been posted on
the FEC website since the beginning of 1997.  Some  further donations
may have been made recently that are not as of yet posted.  The
contributions were made to Senator Lugar's  Committee, Friends of Dick
Lugar Inc.  Oftentimes, the corporation or organization did not give the
money directly to Lugar's committee, but made the contribution through
their lobbying pac or political action committee.  For example, Monsanto
gave $10,000 to Sen. Lugar through their pac, the Monsanto Citizenship
Fund:

  Commodity
Groups
Money Given to Senator Lugar Since
  1997
  National Cattlemen's Beef
Association...............................................................$6,000

  National Chicken
Council...................................................................................$5,000

  National Cotton
Council.....................................................................................$3,000

  National Pork Producers
Council........................................................................$8,000

  National Turkey
Federation................................................................................$4,000

  Corporate Lobbying Groups
  American Cotton Shippers
Association...............................................................$2,500

  American Crop Protection
Association...............................................................$3,000

  American Feed Industry
Association..................................................................$500

  American Frozen Food
Institute.........................................................................$2,500

  American Meat
Institute...................................................................................$6,000

  Animal Health
Institute.....................................................................................$1,000

  Cargill,
Inc.......................................................................................................$5,000

  Chicago Board of
Trade...................................................................................$10,000

  Food Distributors
International...........................................................................$1,000

  Food Marketing
Institute...................................................................................$10,000

  Grocery Manufacturers of
America...................................................................$6,000

  International Dairy Foods
Association................................................................$10,000
from Ice Cream, Milk & Cheese Pac
  Monsanto
Company..........................................................................................$10,000

  National Food Processors
Association................................................................$4,000

  National Grain and Feed
Association..................................................................$2,500

  National Meat
Association................................................................................$2,000

  Seaboard
Corporation........................................................................................$1,000

  United Egg
Association.....................................................................................$9,000



Total......................................................................................................................................................$112,000


  This only reflects a small portion of contributions Senator Lugar has
received from corporate agribusiness interests since 1997.

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