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HR 3104 106th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural cooperatives Agricultural surpluses American agricultural assistance American technical assistance Charities Commerce Counterpart funds Democracy Developing countries Food relief Free enterprise Government Operations and Politics International Affairs Nonprofit organizations Public-private partnerships Social Welfare

To provide needed flexibility to the United States Department of Agriculture to help developing countries and move surplus commodities from the United States.

Introduced: October 19, 1999 Introduced by: Kaptur, Marcy Democratic · Ohio See on congress.gov
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Oct 19, 1999
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Oct 19, 1999
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to increase: (1) funding limits for foreign agricultural commodity assistance under the food for progress, food for development, and specified emergency and nonemergency programs; (2) commodity tonnage limits; and (3) funding limits for related administrative and technical assistance.

Amends the Agricultural Act of 1949 to authorize the Commodity Credit Corporation to pay program development and administration and monitoring costs incurred by private entities involved in foreign agricultural assistance programs to developing and friendly countries.

What's happening now October 19, 1999

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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