A bill to provide emergency assistance to promote the marketing and sales of agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.
Emergency Agricultural Marketing and Sales Act of 1985 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) provide U.S. exporters and users and foreign purchasers with free agricultural commodities in order to expand overseas markets for U.S. agricultural products; and (2) carry out such program through the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC).
Amends the Food for Peace Act of 1966 to: (1) authorize the CCC to guarantee the repayment of loans made to finance credit sales and to provide intermediate export credit to developing nations; (2) authorize FY 1985 through 1988 appropriations; and (3) authorize the Secretary to provide commodities acquired through price support operations to countries not qualifying for export credit or guarantees to reduce the cost of such commodities and to enable them to meet such qualifications.
Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Voice Vote.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.
Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.
Committee on Agriculture. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
Committee on Agriculture. Reported to Senate by Senator Helms with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 99-66.
Committee on Agriculture. Reported to Senate by Senator Helms with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 99-66.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 146.
Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1714 ordered to be reported.
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