[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 169 (Thursday, October 24, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6173]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1126. Ms. STABENOW submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055, 
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, 
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 
2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       At the appropriate place in title VII of division B, insert 
     the following:
       Sec. __.  The Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into an 
     arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences under which 
     the National Academy of Sciences shall--
       (1) conduct a study on any postponements, delays, or 
     cancellations of activities or research or other lost 
     research, work product, or opportunities of the Economic 
     Research Service and the National Institute of Food and 
     Agriculture, including work impacted by loss of staff 
     expertise and experience of those agencies, in fiscal year 
     2020; and
       (2) submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
     Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of 
     the House of Representatives a report describing the results 
     of the study conducted under paragraph (1), including 
     recommendations on future research priorities for the 
     agencies described in paragraph (1) to address challenges to 
     agriculture, families, and the rural United States.
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