[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Pages 11783-11784]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               AMENDMENTS

  Under clause 8 of Rule XVIII, proposed amendments were submitted as 
follows:

                               H.R. 2744

                 Offered By: Mr. Garrett of New Jersey

       Amendment No. 1: Page 51, line 21, insert the following 
     before the period at the end:

     : Provided further, That none of the funds made available 
     under this heading may be expended in contravention of 
     section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
     1183a)

                               H.R. 2744

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 2: Page 2, line 19, after the dollar amount 
     insert the following: ``: Provided, That $875,000 of the 
     funds made available by this appropriation shall not be 
     available until the Secretary of Agriculture submits to the 
     Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate, the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
     Representatives, and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
     and Forestry of the Senate a report on the National Animal 
     Identification Plan, including the lessons

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     learned and the effectiveness of the pilot programs funded in 
     fiscal year 2005, an analysis of the economic impact of the 
     proposed National Animal Identification System on the 
     livestock industry, and the expected cost of implementing the 
     National Animal Identification System''.

                               H.R. 2744

                      Offered By: Mr. King of Iowa

       Amendment No. 3: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this section, the Secretary of Agriculture shall 
     submit to Congress a report on the National Animal 
     Identification Plan, including--
       (1) the lessons learned and the effectiveness of the pilot 
     programs funded in fiscal year 2005;
       (2) an analysis of the economic impact of the proposed 
     National Animal Identification System on the livestock 
     industry; and
       (3) the expected cost of implementing the National Animal 
     Identification System.

                               H.R. 2744

                          Offered By: Mr. Baca

       Amendment No. 4: Under the heading ``Common Computing 
     Environment'', insert after the dollar amount the following: 
     ``(reduced by $855,000)''.
       Under the headings ``Cooperative State Research, Education, 
     and Extension Service'' and ``Research and Education 
     Activities'', insert after the first dollar amount, and after 
     the dollar amount relating to an education grants program for 
     Hispanic-serving Institutions, the following: ``(increased by 
     $855,000)''.

                               H.R. 2744

                       Offered By: Mr. Blumenauer

       Amendment No. 5: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), add the following new section:
       Sec. 7__. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to to pay the salaries and 
     expenses of personnel who make loans available under section 
     156 of the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
     1996 (7 U.S.C. 7272) to processors of domestically grown 
     sugarcane at a rate in excess of 17 cents per pound for raw 
     cane sugar or to processors of domestically grown sugar beets 
     at a rate in excess of 21.6 cents per pound for refined beet 
     sugar.

                               H.R. 2744

                         Offered By: Mr. Chabot

       Amendment No. 6: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title) insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
     available by this Act may be used to carry out section 203 of 
     the Agriculture Trade Act of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) or to pay 
     the salaries and expenses of personnel who carry out a market 
     program under such section.

                               H.R. 2744

                         Offered By: Mr. Platts

       Amendment No. 7: Page 5, line 8, after the dollar amount 
     insert the following: ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''.
       Page 5, line 13, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(reduced by $2,000,000)''.
       Page 18, line 12, after the dollar amount insert the 
     following: ``(increased by $1,227,000)''.

                               H.R. 2744

                        Offered By: Mr. Rehberg

       Amendment No. 8: Strike section 759 (page 80, lines 7 
     through 10), relating to the delay in country of origin 
     labeling for meat and meat products.

                               H.R. 2744

                  Offered By: Mr. Schwarz of Michigan

       Amendment No. 9: Add at the end (before the short title) 
     the following new section:
       Sec. 7__. It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of 
     Agriculture should use the transfer authority provided by 
     section 442 of the Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7772) to 
     implement the strategic plan developed by the Animal and 
     Plant Health Inspection Service for the eradication of 
     Emerald Ash Borer in the States of Michigan, Ohio, and 
     Indiana.

                               H.R. 2744

                        Offered By: Mr. Sweeney

       Amendment No. 10: At the end of the bill (before the short 
     title), insert the following new section:
       Sec. __. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
     be used to pay the salaries or expenses of personnel to 
     inspect horses intended for slaughter, horse carcasses, or 
     horse meat under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 
     601 et seq.) or the Federal Agriculture Improvement and 
     Reform Act of 1996 (Public Law 104-127).