June 20, 2013
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE BUSINESS
Ordering the Previous Question on H. Res. 271 — "Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 1947) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes." – ADOPTED 233 – 187
H. Res. 271 — "Providing for further consideration of the bill (H.R. 1947) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes." – ADOPTED 239 – 177
Approval of the Journal – ADOPTED 275 – 139, 1
Gibbs (R-OH), Kind (D-WI) Amendment No. 2 - Sets the target price for all crops at 55 percent of the five year rolling Olympic average. The amendment also changes the acreage available for target price support to 85 percent of the farmer’s base acres. – WITHDRAWN
Herrera-Beutler (R-WA), Schrader (D-OR) Amendment No.55 - Codifies the EPA's longstanding silviculture rule. It protects federal, state, county, tribal, and private forest roads from costly permit requirements or other point source regulation along with litigation expenses and citizen suit liability. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Ellison (D-MN) Amendment No. 4 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to complete a study on the climate impacts of the Price Loss Coverage program. – REJECTED BY VOICE
Enyart (D-IL) Amendment No. 6 - Establishes a revenue neutral National Drought Council and a National Drought Policy Action Plan to streamline the federal response in times of drought. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Graves (R-GA) Amendment No. 7 - Ensures that corn growers who sell their crop for ethanol production may not receive farm payments. Prohibits a producer on a farm that sells corn, directly or through a third party, to an ethanol production facility from receiving any farm bill payments or benefits. – WITHDRAWN
Lujan (D-NM) Amendment No. 10 - Allows small-scale Hispanic irrigators to be eligible EQIP funding. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Gardner (R-CO), Polis (D-CO), Lamborn (R-CO), Coffman (R-CO), Perlmutter (D-CO) Amendment No. 12 - Specifies that the Secretary should give priority consideration for the use of Emergency Watershed Protection funding for those areas seeking assistance to protect public safety from flooding and repair damaged infrastructure caused by catastrophic wildfires. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Thompson (D-CA), Fortenberry (D-NE) Amendment No. 13 - Require a conservation compliance plan be filed with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and followed for all crops in wetlands and all annually tilled crops on highly erodible lands in order to qualify for crop insurance premium subsidy assistance. – WITHDRAWN
Titus (D-NV) Amendment No. 17 - Continues USDA’s Hunger-Free Communities grant program, which has been included in the Senate Farm Bill. The program was created to foster collaborative public-private partnership efforts at the community level to root out and address the causes of hunger and help increase community access to nutritious foods. – REJECTED BY VOICE
McGovern (D-MA) Amendment No. 1 - Restores the $20.5 billion cuts in SNAP by offsetting the Farm Risk Management Election Program and the Supplemental Coverage Option. – REJECTED 188 – 234
Foxx (R-NC) Amendment No. 3 - Caps spending on the Farm Risk Management Election program at 110% of CBO-predicted levels for the first five (5) years in which payments are disbursed (FY 2016 – 2020). – ADOPTED 267 – 156
Broun (R-GA) Amendment No. 5 - Repeals permanent law from the Agriculture Act of 1949 that pertains to dairy support. Prevents the currently suspended law from becoming reactivated should Congress not reauthorize programs under the Department of Agriculture. –REJECTED 112 – 309
Blumenauer (D-OR), Capps (DCA), Moran, James (D-VA) Amendment No.8 - Requires that twenty percent of the acreage enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program be set aside for the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program and the Continuous Conservation Reserve Program, which allows 1states to target high priority and environmentally sensitive land, and to continuously re-enroll that land in CRP. – REJECTED 157 – 242
Blumenauer (D-OR), Huffman (D-CA), Moran, James (D-VA) Amendment No. 9 - Reforms the Environmental Quality Incentives Program to increase access for farmers, and eliminate payments to projects that do not show strong conservation benefits. –REJECTED 157 – 266
Hastings (D-FL) (offered by Kaptur) Amendment No. 14 - Improves federal coordination in addressing the documented decline of managed and native pollinators and promotes the long-term viability of honey bee, wild bees, and other beneficial insects in agriculture.– ADOPTED 273 – 149
Royce (R-CA), Engel (D-NY) Amendment No. 15 - Reforms U.S. international food aid to allow for not more than 45 percent of authorized funds to be used for assistance other than U.S. agricultural commodities, yielding $215 million in annual efficiency savings, enabling the U.S. to reach an additional 4 million disaster victims. Curtails practice of “monetization” which, according to the GAO, is inefficient and led to a loss of $219 million over three years. Reductions in mandatory spending result in $150 million in deficit reduction over the life of the bill. – REJECTED 203 – 220
Chabot (R-OH), McClintock (R-CA) Amendment No. 16 - Repeals Section 3102, which reauthorizes the Market Access Program (MAP) until 2018. – REJECTED 98 – 322
Brooks (R-AL) Amendment No. 18 - Terminates funding for the Emerging Markets Program (EMP) after September 30, 2013. – VOTE REQUESTED
Castor (D-FL) Amendment No. 19 - Seeks to ensure that Department of Agriculture certificates of origin are accepted by any country that has entered into a free trade agreement with the United States. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Grimm (NY) Amendment No. 21 - Amends Sec. 4016 by specifying that at least one such pilot program shall be conducted in a large urban area that administers its own SNAP program and otherwise complies with the pilot program requirements. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Hudson (R-NC), LaMalfa (R-CA), Yoho (R-FL) Amendment No. 22 - Allows states to conduct drug testing on SNAP applicants as a condition for receiving benefits. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Conaway (R-TX) Amendment No. 23 - Requires a 10% reduction in the Thrifty Food Plan calculation in any year that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is not authorized. – VOTE REQUESTED
Butterfield (D-NC) Amendment No. 25 - Adds a section at the end of subtitle A of title IV to include items for personal hygiene for household use in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. – VOTE REQUESTED
Marino (R-PA) Amendment No. 26 - Directs the Comptroller General to establish a pilot program within nine states using the data required to be reported for SNAP under the Food and Nutrition Act. After the pilot program ends, the Comptroller General shall determine whether item specific data purchased with SNAP benefits can be collected using existing reporting requirements, and how to improve current SNAP reporting. – VOTE REQUESTED
Chabot (R-OH) Amendment No.27 - Shortens the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit expunging statute and requires a State agency to expunge benefits that have not been accessed by a household after a period of 60 days. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Black (R-TN) Amendment No. 28 - Terminates an agreement the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has entered in with the Mexican government known as the “Partnership for Nutrition Assistance Program.” – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Kaptur (D-OH) Amendment No. 29 - Requires that at least 50 percent of the funds made available for the Farmers Market Nutrition Program be reserved for seniors. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Schweikert (R-AZ) Amendment No. 30 - Strikes the Health Food Financing Initiative. – VOTE REQUESTED
Tierney (D-MA), Keating (D-MA), Markey (D-MA), Lynch (D-MA), Bishop (D-NY), Shea-Porter (D-NH) Amendment No.32 - Allows commercial fishermen to be eligible recipients of the Emergency Disaster Loan program. – VOTE REQUESTED
Costa (D-CA) Amendment No. 33- Creates a pilot program that will use funds from the Rural Utility Service to address nitrate contamination of rural drinking water in communities with less than 10,000 residents. – WITHDRAWN
Gingrey (R-GA) Amendment No. 34 - Strikes section 6105 from the bill which provides the authorization for the Rural Broadband Access Loan and Loan Guarantee Program. – WITHDRAWN
Palazzo (R-MS) Amendment No. 36 - Authorizes funding for the Agriculture Technology Innovation Partners hip program that is already set up through USDA. The amendment would make authorize $500K for the pilot program. – WITHDRAWN
Polis (D-CO), Blumenauer (D-OR), Massie (R-KY) Amendment No. 37 - Allows institutions of higher education to grow or cultivate industrial hemp for the purpose of agricultural or academic research. The provision only applies to states that already permit industrial hemp growth and cultivation under state law. – VOTE REQUESTED
Garamendi (D-CA), Gibson (R-NY) Amendment No. 38 - Modifies the Forest Legacy program to allow qualified third party, non-governmental entities to hold the conservation easements financed with Forest Legacy revenue. – VOTE REQUESTED
Polis (D-CO), Napolitano (D-CA) Amendment No. 39- Would help the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) streamline forest management decisions to treat insect infestations on public lands so that USFS can better protect our natural resources and critical infrastructure while reducing the fuel loads that contribute to wildfires. Adds to the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 and directs the USFS to designate and treat at least one subwatersheds on at least one National Forest in each state that is experiencing insect epidemics or diseases that impair forest health. – WITHDRAWN
Marino (R-PA) Amendment No.41 - Repeals the Biodiesel Fuel Education Program, which awards federal grants to educate fleet operators and the public on the benefits of using biodiesel fuels, instead of fossil fuels. – VOTE REQUESTED
McClintock (R-CA) Amendment No. 43 - Strikes Sec. 10003 – the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program. This duplicative program funds lessons on food preparation, promotions of locally-grown crops and advertising of farmers markets. – VOTE REQUESTED
Gibson (R-NY), Grimm (R-NY), Hanna (R-NY), Maloney, Sean (R-NY), Collins, Chris (D-NY) Amendment No. 44 - Strikes the olive oil import restriction contained in section 10010 of the bill. Under 10010, if a marketing order for olive oil is established, olive oil imports would be subject to restrictions such as taste testing. – VOTE REQUESTED
Walorski (R-IN) Amendment No. 45 - Continues the prohibition on the Christmas tree tax by striking the section of the bill that lifts the stay on the tax. – VOTE REQUESTED
Courtney (D-CT), Wittman (R-VA) Amendment No. 46 - Adds farmed shellfish to the list of specialty crops listed in Section 3 of the Specialty Crops Competitiveness Act of 2004. This would allow these products to be eligible for USDA marketing and research assistance. – VOTE REQUESTED
Kind (D-WI), Petri (R-WI), Blumenauer (D-OR), Conyers (D-MI), Cooper (D-TN), DeFazio (D-OR), Connolly (D-VA), DeLauro (D-CT), McGovern (D-MA), Radel, (R-FL), Sensenbrenner (R-WI), Waxman (D- CA) Amendment No. 47 - Limits premium subsidies to those producers with an AGI under $250,000 and limits per person premium subsidies to $50,000 and caps crop insurance providers’ reimbursement of administrative and operating at $900 million and reduces their rate of return to 12%. Introduces transparency into the crop insurance program. – VOTE REQUESTED
Carney (D-DE), Radel (R-FL) Amendment No. 48 - Strikes section 11012 of the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act. – VOTE REQUESTED
Radel (R-FL) Amendment No. 49 - Repeals the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center. – VOTE REQUESTED
Walberg (R-MI) Amendment No. 50 - Strikes the addition of “natural stone” to the list of commodity products that can petition the USDA for the issuance of a promotion and research order. – VOTE REQUESTED
En Bloc 1 (Nos. 53, 59, 60, 62 – 97 , 103) – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Benishek (R-MI) Amendment No. 51 - Requires a scientific and economic analysis of the FDA’s Food Safety and Modernization Act prior to final regulations being enforced. The primary focus of the analysis will be the impact of this legislation on agricultural businesses of all sizes. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Bachus (R-AL) Amendment No. 52 - Ensures that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will consider regulations in accordance with provisions in the Regulatory Flexibility Act – so that that small business impacts are considered in actions and alternatives that the USDA considers. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Wittman (R-VA) Amendment No. 54 - Provides performance based measures, including crosscut budgeting, adaptive management and an Independent Evaluator, to assure federal dollars currently spent on Bay restoration activities produce results. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Crawford (R-AR) Amendment No. 56 - Modifies the exemption levels of EPA’s SPCC rules for small farmers and ranchers, which require producers to construct a containment facility around above-ground oil tanks. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Crawford (R-AR), Terry (R-NE) Amendment No. 57 - Prohibits the EPA from procuring or disclosing the private information of farmers and ranchers. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
Foxx (R-NC) Amendment No. 58 - Sunsets all discretionary programs in the bill upon the expiration of the 5-year authorization period. – ADOPTED BY VOICE
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