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

Introduced: January 6, 2001 Introduced by: Kaptur, Marcy Democratic · Ohio See on congress.gov
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Mar 23, 2001
Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Jan 6, 2001
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Jan 6, 2001
Introduced in House
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 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 March 23, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 229: To provide needed flexibility to the United States Department of Agriculture to help developing countries and move surplus commodities from the United States.. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-229/
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"H.R. 229: To provide needed flexibility to the United States Department of Agriculture to help developing countries and move surplus commodities from the United States.." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-229/.
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H.R. 229, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-229/.
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