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Latest Action: 09/25/2008 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9494-9496) Bill Text
A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy and agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action: 06/18/2008 - Vetoed by President. (text of veto message: CR H5535) Bill TextTo provide for the continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 6/18/2008--Public Law. (There is 1 other summary) Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 - (Sec. 3) Deems the Joint Explanatory Statement submitted by the Committee of Conference for the conference report to accompany H.R. 2419 of the 110th Congress (House Report 110-627) to be part of the legislative history of this Act and to have the same effect regarding implementation of this Act as it would have had regarding implementation of H.R. 2419. (Sec. 4) Repeals P.L. 110-234 (H.R. 2419) and the amendments made by that Act, effective on the date of enactment of that Act. States that, except as otherwise provided in this Act, this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall take effect on the earlier of: (1) the date of enactment of this Act; or (2) the date of enactment of P.L. 110-234 [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 11/02/2007 - Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Original measure reported to Senate by Senator Harkin. With written report No. 110-220. Additional views filed. Bill TextAn original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 11/2/2007--Introduced. Food and Energy Security Act of 2007 - Revises agricultural and related programs and provisions respecting: (1) producer income; (2) conservation; (3) trade; (4) nutrition; (5) credit; (6) rural development and investment; (7) research and related matters; (8) forestry; (9) energy; (10) livestock marketing; and (11) agricultural security.
Also tagged in: Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural prices, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Budgets, Business, Crop insurance, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Disaster relief, Emergency management, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feeds, Finance, Food, Foreign trade promotion, Governmental investigations, Marketing orders, Milk, Trade
Latest Action: 06/27/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8620-8621) Bill TextA bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to promote growth and opportunity for the dairy industry in the United States, and for other purposes. 6/27/2007--Introduced. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the dairy price support program. Amends the national dairy market loss payment program to: (1) extend the sign-up and contract duration periods; (2) replace the "Class 1 milk" definition with a "Class III milk" definition; (3) revise the payment formula (which shall include a feed adjustment factor); and (4) establish a maximum annual payment of $50,000 per dairy operation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish a national dairy options program; and (2) make nonrecourse loans available to commercial processors of cheddar cheese, butter, and nonfat dry milk. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out a milk revenue [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Agricultural cooperatives, Agricultural credit, Agricultural prices, Agricultural subsidies, Agriculture, Agriculture in foreign trade, Budgets, Business, Crop insurance, Dairy industry, Dairy products, Disaster relief, Emergency management, Federally-guaranteed loans, Feeds, Finance, Food, Foreign trade promotion, Governmental investigations, Marketing orders, Milk, Trade
Latest Action: 06/26/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry. Bill TextTo amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to promote growth and opportunity for the dairy industry in the United States, and for other purposes. 5/23/2007--Introduced. Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to repeal the dairy price support program. Amends the national dairy market loss payment program to: (1) extend the sign-up and contract duration periods; (2) replace the "Class 1 milk" definition with a "Class III milk" definition; (3) revise the payment formula (which shall include a feed adjustment factor); and (4) establish a maximum annual payment of $50,000 per dairy operation. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) establish a national dairy options program; and (2) make nonrecourse loans available to commercial processors of cheddar cheese, butter, and nonfat dry milk. Amends the Federal Crop Insurance Act to direct the Commodity Credit Corporation to carry out a milk revenue insurance [...] show full description
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Scholarships, School lunch program, Science policy, Scientific instruments and apparatus, Seasonal labor, Sediment control, Self-help devices for the disabled, Sheep, Single family housing, Small business, Social security, Social security numbers, Social services, Soil conservation, Soil erosion, Solar energy, Solid wastes, Sorghum, South Dakota, Soybeans, Sports, State and local government, State taxation, Storage, Sugar, Surplus government property, Surveys, Sustainable agriculture, Swine, Tariff, Tariff preferences, Taxation, Technical assistance, Technology, Technology transfer, Telecommunication, Telemedicine, Television broadcasting, Terrorism, Trade, Trade agreements, Transportation, Trees, Urban affairs, Urban areas, Vegetables, Veterinary medicine, Virgin Islands, Virus diseases, Waste water treatment, Water conservation, Water pollution, Water pollution control, Water quality, Water resources, Water supply, Watersheds, Weather forecasting, Weeds, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Welfare work participation, Wells, Wetlands, Wheat, Wildlife conservation, Wind power, Wisconsin, Women, Women in government, Wool
Latest Action: 05/22/2008 - Veto message received in Senate. Ordered held at the desk. Bill TextTo provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes. 5/22/2008--Public Law. (There is 1 other summary) Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 - Title I: Commodity Programs - (Sec. 1001) Defines specified terms. Subtitle A: Direct Payments and Counter-Cyclical Payments - (Sec. 1101) Directs the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary) to adjust base acres for covered commodities for a farm whenever: (1) a conservation reserve contract expires or is voluntarily terminated; (2) cropland is released from coverage under a conservation reserve contract; or (3) the producer has eligible pulse crop or oilseed acreage. Requires election of either direct payments and counter-cyclical payments or conservation payments if the base adjustment is made due to a change in status of a conservation reserve contract. Requires a reduction in base acres if the sum of base acres and [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/17/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes. 5/17/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Extends and revises various agricultural programs, including programs respecting: (1) milk and dairy; (2) conservation security; (3) conservation reserve; (4) wetlands reserve; (5) environmental quality incentives; (6) farmland protection; (7) cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (8) wildlife habitat; (9) conservation loan guarantees; (10) market access; (11) food stamps; (12) farm and ranch profitability grants; (13) community forest and open space conservation; (14) healthy forests reserve; (15) biomass and renewable energy; (16) specialty crops, farmers' markets, and nutrition; (17) organic agriculture programs; (18) crop insurance; and (18) colony collapse disorder.
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Latest Action: 07/17/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities. Bill TextTo extend and enhance farm, nutrition, and community development programs of the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007 - Establishes the farm and ranch profitability grant program. Extends the market access program. Revises (and extends certain of) the following conservation programs: (1) the environmental quality incentives program; (2) the conservation innovation grant program; (3) the cost share and incentive payment program; (4) state performance incentives; (5) the wildlife habitat incentive program; (6) the conservation reserve program; and (7) the wetlands reserve program. Establishes: (1) the cooperative conservation partnership initiative; (2) the comprehensive conservation planning pilot program; (3) the farmland protection program; (4) the debt for agricultural easements program; (5) the conservation risk management pilot program; (6) the (Delmarva) conservation [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 05/03/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Bill TextA bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to improve the safety of meat and poultry products by enhancing the ability of the Secretary of Agriculture to retrieve the history, use, and location of a meat or poultry product through a recordkeeping and audit system or registered identification, and for other purposes. 5/3/2007--Introduced. Meat and Poultry Products Traceability and Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to direct that amenable species presented for slaughter for human consumption, and the carcasses or parts of carcasses and the meat and food products of those animals, shipped in interstate commerce be identified in a manner that enables the Secretary of Agriculture to trace: (1) each animal or group of animals to any location at which the animal was held at any time before slaughter; and (2) each carcass or part of a carcass and food and food product forward [...] show full description
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