[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[S. 946 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 946

    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 SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 21, 2007

  Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mrs. Dole, Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. Roberts) 
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 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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