[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1616 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1616

    To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to 
  reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and 
            Child Nutrition Program, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 21, 2007

 Mr. McGovern (for himself, Mrs. Emerson, Ms. Kaptur, Ms. McCollum of 
 Minnesota, Mr. Snyder, Mr. McCotter, Mr. Boustany, Mrs. Tauscher, Mr. 
 Moore of Kansas, Mr. Hinchey, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. Hastings of 
 Florida, Mr. Schiff, Mrs. Christensen, Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas, Ms. 
  Matsui, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Rush, Mr. Holt, Mr. Moran of Kansas, Mr. 
Skelton, Mr. Grijalva, Ms. Norton, Ms. Lee, Mr. Payne, Mr. Fattah, Mr. 
Oberstar, Ms. Herseth, Mr. LaHood, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Smith of 
New Jersey, Mr. Walsh of New York, Mr. Kind, Mr. Stark, Ms. Watson, Mr. 
  McNulty, Mrs. Napolitano, Mr. McHugh, Mr. Crowley, Mr. Boucher, Ms. 
Woolsey, Mr. George Miller of California, Mr. Pomeroy, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. 
  English of Pennsylvania, Mr. Lantos, Ms. Carson, Mr. Etheridge, Mr. 
   Shimkus, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Corrine Brown of Florida, Mr. 
Kildee, Mrs. Boyda of Kansas, Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Wexler, Mr. Cohen, Mr. 
  Serrano, Mr. Butterfield, Mr. Courtney, Mr. Delahunt, Mr. Farr, Mr. 
Pallone, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Hare, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Meeks 
 of New York, Mr. Welch of Vermont, Mrs. Capps, Mr. Olver, Ms. Solis, 
Mr. Cummings, and Ms. Baldwin) introduced the following bill; which was 
   referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the 
     Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to 
  reauthorize the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and 
            Child Nutrition Program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REAUTHORIZATION OF MCGOVERN-DOLE INTERNATIONAL FOOD FOR 
              EDUCATION AND CHILD NUTRITION PROGRAM.

    (a) Administration of Program.--Section 3107 of the Farm Security 
and Rural Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (d), in the matter preceding paragraph 
        (1), by striking ``The President shall designate 1 or more 
        Federal agencies to'' and inserting ``The Secretary shall'';
            (2) in subsection (f)(2), in the matter preceding 
        subparagraph (A), by striking ``implementing agency'' and 
        inserting ``Secretary''; and
            (3) in subsections (c)(2)(B), (f)(1), (h)(1) and (2), and 
        (i), by striking ``President'' each place it appears and 
        inserting ``Secretary''.
    (b) Funding.--Section 3107(l) of the Farm Security and Rural 
Investment Act of 2002 (7 U.S.C. 1736o-1(l)) is amended--
            (1) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(1) Use of commodity credit corporation funds.--Of the 
        funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Secretary shall 
        use to carry out this section--
                    ``(A) not less than $140,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2008;
                    ``(B) not less than $180,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2009;
                    ``(C) not less than $220,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2010;
                    ``(D) not less than $260,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2011; and
                    ``(E) not less than $300,000,000 for fiscal year 
                2012.'';
            (2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); and
            (3) in paragraph (2) (as redesignated by paragraph (2)), by 
        striking ``any Federal agency implementing or assisting'' and 
        inserting ``the Department of Agriculture or any other Federal 
        agency assisting''.
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