[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 170 (Monday, October 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S6195]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1148. Mr. VAN HOLLEN (for himself, Mrs. Murray, Mr. Warner, Mr. 
Brown, Mr. Kaine, and Mr. Cardin) 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. 7__. (a) The Comptroller General of the United States 
     shall conduct a study evaluating the relocation of the 
     Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food 
     and Agriculture (referred to in this section as ``the 
     agencies'').
       (b) Not later than July 31, 2020, the Comptroller General 
     of the United States shall submit to the Committee on 
     Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, the 
     Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, and 
     the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House 
     of Representatives a report describing the results of the 
     study conducted under subsection (a), including an evaluation 
     of--
       (1) whether the Department of Agriculture properly and 
     effectively considered, planned for, and implemented the 
     relocation of the agencies; and
       (2) how the relocation of the agencies is impacting the 
     agencies in achieving the missions of the agencies.
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