From benbrook@hillnet.comThu Feb 15 16:50:39 1996 Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 12:32:46 -0500 From: Charles Benbrook To: sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu Subject: Senate Passed Farmbill The Senate passed farmbill, S. 1541, is now available from Thomas, the Lib. of Congress WWW cite. It is 215 pages, and takes about 5 minutes to down-load on a 28,800 connection. Get it through any web server linked to gov't sites; go to Executive branch; to thomas; to -- http://thomas.loc.gov/c104/s1541.es.txt It is called "The Agricultural Reform and Improvement Act of 1996". Many people have asked for reviews/news through responses to my farmbill web page. Those of you who have been using it know I have been unable to update it since late October. Despite this, it had over 5,700 hits last week alone. The page was an experiment, conducted from Feb. 1995 through end of OCt., and stands as a very complete record of farmbill process during that period. There is about 500 pages of material relevant to the farmbill. I did it to learn the web and as a public service in the hopes some client/sponsor would step forward and provide some support for it, or some rendition of it. None have done so, so in the next month or so I will probably take it off the Net. If anyone wants to see it stay up, and again become current with the sorts of posts you have grown accustomed to, I would liek to hear any ideas how this service could be at least partially paid for.