[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2312 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2312

 To maintain the ability of United States agriculture to remain viable 
and competitive in domestic and international markets, to meet the food 
 and fiber needs of United States and international consumers, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                July 22 (legislative day, July 20), 1994

  Mr. Daschle introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
 To maintain the ability of United States agriculture to remain viable 
and competitive in domestic and international markets, to meet the food 
 and fiber needs of United States and international consumers, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to 
maintain the ability of United States agriculture to remain viable and 
competitive in domestic and international markets, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, consistent with the obligations of the United States to 
limit agricultural export subsidies as set forth in the Uruguay Round 
Agreement and notwithstanding any other provision of law, shall--
            (1) make available and aggressively utilize in each fiscal 
        year the funds and commodities of the Commodity Credit 
        Corporation in the maximum amounts allowed under the Agreement 
        for the export enhancement program, the dairy export incentive 
        program, the cottonseed oil assistance program, and the 
        sunflowerseed oil assistance program; and
            (2) make available additional funds and commodities in each 
        fiscal year in an amount equal to the total of the reductions 
        below the amounts made available in fiscal year 1994 for the 
        programs described in paragraph (1) that are made as a 
        condition of compliance with the budgetary outlay or volume 
        restrictions on agricultural export subsidies under the 
        Agreement, in addition to any funds or commodities that may be 
        authorized, appropriated, or otherwise made available, for 
        authorized export promotion, foreign market development, export 
        credit guarantee, and international food assistance programs, 
        for commodity purchases under the Emergency Food Assistance 
        Program, and to promote the development, processing, 
        commercialization, and marketing of products resulting from 
        alternative uses of agricultural commodities, including 
        vegetable oil.
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