The following is a forwarded message from Ed Hopkins.  Thanks to all Iowa Chapter members who called Senators Harkin and Grassley on this amendment.  Email your thanks to Harkin and your disappointment to Grassley (see below for the vote count).  Even though it failed, we still have work to do on other Farm Bill amendments.  Keep those calls coming.

I am very sorry to report that the Wellstone amendment to limit EQIP grants
to CAFOs was defeated this afternoon by a vote of 44-52.  The vote count is
below.  Since the House-passed Farm Bill provides even more generous
subsidies to CAFOs, it is now certain that some of our tax dollars will be
going to construct waste lagoons at CAFOs.

Thanks to everyone who worked to stop this.  I had thought we were going to
lose by a much wider margin.  If your Senators voted with us, please thank
them.  If they opposed the amendment, please admonish them.

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(Rollcall Vote No. 15 Leg. )

February 6, 2002   4:25PM

VOTE TITLE: Wellstone Amdt. No. 2602, As Modified

BILL NO.: S. 1731
AMENDMENT NO.: S.Amdt.
2602

REQUIRED FOR MAJORITY: 1/2
RESULT: Amendment Rejected


                              YEAS --- 44
  Akaka      Durbin                  Mikulski
  Biden                   Ensign                  Reed
  Byrd                    Feingold              Reid
  Carnahan                Gregg                   Rockefeller
  Carper                  Harkin                  Santorum
  Chafee            Hollings                Sarbanes
  Cleland                 Inouye      Schumer
  Clinton                 Johnson                 Smith (NH)
  Collins                 Kennedy                 Snowe
  Conrad    Kerry                   Specter
  Corzine                 Kohl                    Stabenow
  Daschle                 Leahy            Stevens
  Dayton                  Levin                   Torricelli
  Dodd                    Lieberman               Wellstone
  Dorgan                  Lugar

                              NAYS --- 52
  Allard                  Edwards                 Lott
  Allen        Enzi                    McConnell
  Baucus                  Feinstein               Miller
  Bayh                    Fitzgerald          Murkowski
  Bennett                 Frist                   Murray
  Bingaman                Graham                  Nelson (FL)
  Bond          Gramm                   Nelson (NE)
  Boxer                   Grassley                Nickles
  Breaux                  Hagel              Roberts
  Brownback               Hatch                   Sessions
  Bunning                 Helms                   Shelby
  Burns                   Hutchinson              Smith (OR)
  Campbell        Hutchison               Thomas
  Cantwell                Inhofe      Thurmond
  Cochran                 Kyl                     Voinovich
  Craig                   Landrieu                Warner
  Crapo                   Lincoln                 Wyden
  DeWine

     NOT VOTING --- 4
  Domenici                McCain    Thompson
  Jeffords



Erin Jordahl
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