CHART 1 DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC AS A PERCENTAGE OF GDP Source: Office of Management and Budget, Historical Tables, Budget of the U.S. Government, FY 2014, Table 7.1, April 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/Historicals (accessed May 8, 2013), and Congressional Budget Office, “Updated Budget Projections: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023,” May 2013,

chart 1 U.S. TRANSACTIONS with canada, IN BILLIONS OF DOLLARS NAFTA takes effect Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, International Transactions, http://www.bea.gov/ iTable/index_ita.cfm (accessed April 4, 2013). B 2808 heritage.org

CHART 1 House Reference Price SenateReference Price Average Projected Price (2014–2018) PEANUTS RICE Notes: Projected prices are based on the CBO’s 2013 projections of marketing-year average prices. The House bill uses midseason prices as opposed to marketing-year average prices; however, while prices certainly fluctuate, there is a good chance that midseason prices would

CHART 2 Notes: Projected prices are based on the CBO’s 2013 projections of marketing-year average prices. The 10-year historical record is based on the average of the peanut market-year average prices for 2003–2012. The House bill uses midseason prices as opposed to marketing-year average prices; however, while prices certainly fluctuate, there is a good chance that

The farm bills currently working their way through the House and Senate are both projected to cost nearly $1 trillion, far more than the last farm bill passed by Congress in 2008, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Note: The actual costs of the new farm bill will likely be much higher, just as the actual costs were with the 2008 farm bill. Sources:

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TABLE 1 Reference Price Shallow Loss Crop Insurance Expansion Senate House Adverse Market Payments (AMP) Price Loss Coverage (PLC) Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) Revenue Loss Coverage (RLC) Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) Stacked Income Protection for Cotton (STAX) Sources: Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013, S. 954, and Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk

MAP 1 Caspian Sea Black Sea Mediterranean Sea GEORGIA AZERBAIJAN TURKMENISTAN UZBEKISTAN TAJIKISTAN KYRGYZSTAN ARMENIA ukraine BELARUS KAZAKHSTAN CHINA AFGHANISTAN IRAQ IRAN TURKEY POLAND ROMANIA RUSSIA Unwilling to join Potential members Members B 2804 heritage.org

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CHART 2 The biofuel mandate required the production of 4 billion gallons of ethanol in 2006 and more in subsequent years. But despite the mandate and years of targeted tax breaks, ethanol remains a small player in the energy market. In 2011, oil production was more than six times that of ethanol. U.S. CRUDE OIL PRODUCTION U.S. ETHANOL PRODUCTION BILLIONS OF GALLONS

CHART 1 Total production: 20,000 gallons Revised quota: 8.65 million gallons Initial quota: 500 million gallons FIGURES are FOR 2012 In 2012, the Environmental Protection Agency had to drastically revise its quota for cellulosic biofuels because cellulosic ethanol has long struggled with commercial viability. Even the revised figure dwarfed actual production

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CHART 2 LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE Dec. 2007 66% Down 2.6 percentage points May 2013 63.4% Sources: U.S. Department of Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation,” January 2007 to May 2013, Table A1, http://blgs.gov/news.release/empsit.a.htm (accessed May 7, 2013). IB 3962 heritage.org

CHART 1 President Obama promised that government spending would “stimulate” the economy and quell rising unemployment by “creating or saving” millions of jobs. In January 2009, Obama’s advisers produced a chart visualizing the positive results of his recovery plan. But actual unemployment (in red) has far exceeded the White House estimates. WHITE HOUSE ESTIMATES May 2013: