Rural Area Revitalization Act of 1987 and the Rural Development Reorganization Act of 1987: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1800 and H.R. 2026, May 19, 1987 |
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Page 67 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 205 - American Chambers of Commerce abroad, an increasing number of members are engaged in the export and import of both goods and services and have ongoing investment activities. The Chamber favors strengthened international competitiveness and opposes artificial US and foreign barriers to international business. Positions on national issues are developed by a cross-section of Chamber members serving on committees, subcommittees, and task forces.
Page 205 - Chamber's members are small business firms with fewer than 100 employees, 57 percent with fewer than 10 employees. Yet, virtually all of the nation's largest companies are also active members. We are particularly cognizant of the problems of smaller businesses, as well as issues facing the business community at large. Besides representing a cross section of the American business community in terms of number of employees, the Chamber represents a wide management spectrum by type of business and location....
Page 159 - We are living in the time of the parenthesis, the time between eras. It is as though we have bracketed off the present from both the past and the future, for we are neither here nor there. We have not quite left behind the either/or America of the past — centralized, industrialized and economically self-contained . . . But we have not embraced the future either. We have done the human thing: we are clinging to the known past in fear of the unknown future...
Page 22 - Act of 1933 to provide a permanent and dependable source of specialized credit for cooperative associations engaged in marketing farm products, purchasing farm supplies, and furnishing farm business services.
Page 98 - Cooperatives provide financial services to over 3,200 agricultural cooperatives and rural utility systems. The banks currently have about $8 billion in loans outstanding. Many of the major issues facing the Banks for Cooperatives...
Page 20 - We stronolv believe this same relationship is absolutely critical if federal rural economic development programs are to be effective. We have seen that when the few on the top of the pyramid dictate with great specificity the exact nature and extent of use of federal programs, the benefits are negligible. It Is difficult, at best, and more likely impossible for a rigid, Washington-based program to be responsive to the actual, changing needs...
Page 98 - Agricultural cooperatives and rural utility systems and the credit programs they rely on have a significant effect on the rural economy. For example, the 70 largest borrowers of the Banks for Cooperatives have total annual sales in excess of $33 billion and assets of $28 billion. The Fortune 500 list of industrial enterprises includes 15 agricultural cooperatives, 14 of which have a banking relationship with the Banks for Cooperatives.
Page 91 - We recommend that all federal rural programs be examined and with a view to redesign, so that funds are targeted to be more sensitive to rural conditions. We strongly concur with the central theme of the article in the Kansas City Federal Reserve's Economic Review by economists Mark Draberstott, Mark Henry, and Lynn Gibson, that one does not have to choose between those things that make economic sense and those that are socially desirable: both are possible with good planning. Specifically, at the...
Page 8 - ... devaluation of the dollar, or if there are other questions of a similar nature, they will turn to VOA on purpose. They will seek it out and are therefore a somewhat different audience. They want to know what is happening here, and they will work to find out. Mr. HAYS. Thank you. Mr. Zablocki. Mr. ZABLOCKI. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First of all, Mr. Chairman, I want to apologize for being a bit late because I was unavoidably detained ; however, I shall read the transcript and observations and...