3.0.0 2228 2023-01-11T20:20:16Z 2023-01-11T20:20:16Z Senate S S 2007-10-24 110 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-10-24T23:37:08Z 2007-10-24 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2007-10-24 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress L000504 Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN] RICHARD LUGAR R IN GREEN N L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2007-10-24 True M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2007-10-24 True C000141 Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD] Ben Cardin D MD 2007-10-24 True W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2007-10-24 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2007-10-24 True H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT 2007-10-24 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2007-10-24 True S001078 Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH] John Sununu R NH E. 2007-10-25 False D000407 Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM] PETE DOMENICI R NM VICHI 2007-11-01 False C000174 Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] Thomas Carper D DE R. 2007-11-15 False Agriculture and Food Agricultural conservation Agricultural innovations Agricultural pollution Agricultural research Agricultural subsidies Agriculture in foreign trade Alternative energy sources Aquaculture Biomass energy Budget deficits Chesapeake Bay Child nutrition College costs Commerce Crop insurance Department of Agriculture Diet Economics and Public Finance Education Education savings accounts Elementary and secondary education Employment of the disadvantaged Energy Energy crops Energy efficiency Energy research Environmental Protection Executive reorganization Families Finance and Financial Sector Food industry Food relief Food safety Food service Food stamps Foreign Trade and International Finance Forest conservation Forest health Fruit Government Operations and Politics Government procurement Grants-in-aid Grassland ecology Grazing Higher education Housing and Community Development Hunger Income Individual retirement accounts Infrastructure Infrastructure (Economics) Integrated pest management International Affairs Labor and Employment Land use Marketing of farm produce Military pay Non-native species Nutrition Organic farming Pest control Public Lands and Natural Resources Research and development Rural economic development School lunch program Science, Technology, Communications Sediment control Small business Social Welfare Tax-deferred compensation plans Unemployment Vegetables WIC program Water Resources Development Water pollution control Watersheds Welfare eligibility Wetlands Agriculture and Food 00 2007-10-24 Introduced in Senate 2008-01-04T23:11:21Z Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007 - Amends the federal crop insurance program.

Establishes: (1) a risk management account contract program; (2) a conservation planning pilot program; (3) a nutrient reduction and sediment control pilot program for the Chesapeake Bay watershed; (4) a national clean plant network; (5) an Office of Pest Management Policy; and (6) a program of hunger-free community collaborative and infrastructure grants.

Extends and revises specified programs for: (1) commodity assistance; (2) conservation; (3) specialty crops; (4) food programs and nutrition, (5) agricultural trade; (6) rural development; (7) forestry; and (8) energy, including biobased products.

Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2007 or FEED Act of 2007 - Establishes the food employment empowerment and development program to provide grants to eligible entities to use community resources to combat hunger and the root causes of hunger by creating opportunity through food recovery and job training.

Expresses the sense of Congress that any budgetary savings created by this Act should be used to reduce the federal budget deficit and not be used to offset other federal spending.

]]> Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007 Official Title as Introduced A bill to extend and improve agricultural programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Display Title Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced Farm, Ranch, Equity, Stewardship, and Health Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill FEED Act of 2007 Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Food Employment Empowerment and Development Program Act of 2007 Introduced in Senate 2007-10-24T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2228is/xml/BILLS-110s2228is.xml 2007-10-24 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.