[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 107 (Tuesday, June 26, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Page S4414]
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  SA 3085. Mr. YOUNG (for himself, Mrs. McCaskill, Mr. Blunt, and Mr. 
Donnelly) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the 
bill H.R. 2, to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural 
and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 
2023, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       After section 3304, insert the following:

     SEC. 3305. BIOTECHNOLOGY AND AGRICULTURAL TRADE PROGRAM.

       Section 1543A of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and 
     Trade Act of 1990 (7 U.S.C. 5679) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``the biotechnology'' 
     and all that follows through the period at the end and 
     inserting ``of Agriculture a program to be known as the 
     `Biotechnology and Agricultural Trade Program'.'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``program'' and inserting ``Biotechnology 
     and Agricultural Trade Program''; and
       (ii) by striking ``public and private sector projects 
     funded by grants'' and inserting ``policy advocacy and 
     targeted projects'';
       (B) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) in subparagraph (A), by inserting ``or new agricultural 
     production technologies'' after ``biotechnology''; and
       (ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``or'' at the end; 
     and
       (C) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following: 
     ``
       ``(2) issues relating to United States agricultural 
     commodities produced with the use of biotechnology or new 
     agricultural production technologies; or
       ``(3) advocacy for science-based regulation in foreign 
     markets of biotechnology or new agricultural production 
     technologies.''; and
       (3) in subsection (d), by striking ``$6,000,000 for each of 
     fiscal years 2002 through 2007'' and inserting ``$2,000,000 
     for each of fiscal years 2019 through 2023''.
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