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A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the President should initiate negotiations on a new long-term agreement on agricultural trade with the Soviet Union.

Introduced: March 21, 1983 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 11 steps
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Became law
May 25, 1983
Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and with a preamble by Voice Vote.
May 25, 1983
Passed/agreed to in Senate: Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and with a preamble by Voice Vote.
May 17, 1983
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Regular Orders. Calendar No. 188.
May 17, 1983
Committee on Finance. Reported to Senate by Senator Dole with amendments and with a preamble. With written report No. 98-124.
May 17, 1983
Senate Committee on Agriculture discharged. Pursuant to the Order of May 12, 1983.
May 12, 1983
Ordered, that if and when reported from the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be discharged from further consideration.
May 5, 1983
Committee on Finance. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
Apr 15, 1983
Referred jointly to the Committees on Finance; Agriculture by unanimous consent.
Mar 24, 1983
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, International Trade Commission, Office of U.S. Trade Representative, Treasury Department, State Department, Agriculture Department.
Mar 21, 1983
Referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 21, 1983
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) report to Congress on his intention to begin negotiations on a new long-term agricultural trade agreement with the Soviet Union; (2) seek, in such a new agreement, higher minimum and maximum supply guarantees and a provision for the export of value-added products; (3) report to Congress, by a specified date, on the potential economic and employment impacts of such a new agreement on U.S. agriculture and related industries; and (4) take appropriate measures to assure free movement of increased quantities of U.S. agricultural products to the Soviet Union.

What's happening now May 25, 1983

Resolution agreed to in Senate with amendments and with a preamble by Voice Vote.