(3) increases funds or personnel by any means 
for any project or activity for which funds have been 
denied or restricted; 
(4) relocates an office or employees; 
(5) reorganizes offices, programs, or activities; 
or 
(6) contracts out or privatizes any functions or 
activities presently performed by Federal employees; 
unless the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission (as the case may be) 
notifies, in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance of 
the reprogramming of such funds or the use of such au-
thority. 
(b) None of the funds provided by this Act, or pro-
vided by previous Appropriations Acts to the agencies 
funded by this Act that remain available for obligation or 
expenditure in the current fiscal year, or provided from 
any accounts in the Treasury of the United States derived 
by the collection of fees available to the agencies funded 
by this Act, shall be available for obligation or expenditure 
for activities, programs, or projects through a reprogram-
ming or use of the authorities referred to in subsection 
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(a) involving funds in excess of $500,000 or 10 percent, 
whichever is less, that— 
(1) augments existing programs, projects, or ac-
tivities; 
(2) reduces by 10 percent funding for any exist-
ing program, project, or activity, or numbers of per-
sonnel by 10 percent as approved by Congress; or 
(3) results from any general savings from a re-
duction in personnel which would result in a change 
in existing programs, activities, or projects as ap-
proved by Congress; unless the Secretary of Agri-
culture, the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, or the Chairman of the Commodity Futures 
Trading Commission (as the case may be) notifies, 
in writing, the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress at least 30 days in advance 
of the reprogramming of such funds or the use of 
such authority. 
(c) The Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, or the Chairman of the Com-
modity Futures Trading Commission shall notify the Com-
mittees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress be-
fore implementing any program or activity not carried out 
during the previous fiscal year unless the program or ac-
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tivity is funded by this Act or specifically funded by any 
other Act. 
SEC. 736. None of the funds appropriated by this or 
any other Act shall be used to pay the salaries and ex-
penses of personnel who prepare or submit appropriations 
language as part of the President’s Budget submission to 
the Congress of the United States for programs under the 
jurisdiction of the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agri-
culture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion, and Related Agencies that assumes revenues or re-
flects a reduction from the previous year due to user fees 
proposals that have not been enacted into law prior to the 
submission of the Budget unless such Budget submission 
identifies which additional spending reductions should 
occur in the event the user fees proposals are not enacted 
prior to the date of the convening of a committee of con-
ference for the fiscal year 2013 appropriations Act. 
SEC. 737. Unless otherwise authorized by existing 
law, none of the funds provided in this Act, may be used 
by an executive branch agency to produce any pre-
packaged news story intended for broadcast or distribution 
in the United States unless the story includes a clear noti-
fication within the text or audio of the prepackaged news 
story that the prepackaged news story was prepared or 
funded by that executive branch agency. 
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SEC. 738. No employee of the Department of Agri-
culture may be detailed or assigned from an agency or 
office funded by this act to any other agency or office of 
the Department for more than 30 days unless the individ-
ual’s employing agency or office is fully reimbursed by the 
receiving agency or office for the salary and expenses of 
the employee for the period of assignment. 
SEC. 739. None of the funds made available in this 
Act may be used to pay the salaries or expenses of per-
sonnel to— 
(1) inspect horses under section 3 of the Fed-
eral Meat Inspection Act (21 U.S.C. 603); 
(2) inspect horses under section 903 of the 
Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 
1996 (7 U.S.C. 1901 note; Public Law 104–127); or 
(3) implement or enforce section 352.19 of title 
9, Code of Federal Regulations. 
SEC. 740. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used by the Food and Drug Administration 
to write, prepare, develop or publish a proposed, interim, 
or final rule, regulation, or guidance that is intended to 
restrict the use of a substance or a compound unless the 
Secretary bases such rule, regulation or guidance on hard 
science (and not on such factors as cost and consumer 
behavior), and determines that the weight of toxicological 
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evidence, epidemiological evidence, and risk assessments 
clearly justifies such action, including a demonstration 
that a product containing such substance or compound is 
more harmful to users than a product that does not con-
tain such substance or compound, or in the case of phar-
maceuticals, has been demonstrated by scientific study to 
have none of the purported benefits. 
SEC. 741. The Secretary of Agriculture shall reduce 
the payment rate for upland cotton under section 1103(b) 
of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 8713(b)) as necessary so that reductions in the 
amount of direct payments made to producers for upland 
cotton completely offset the costs incurred by the Com-
modity Credit Corporation to provide payments to the 
Brazil Cotton Institute. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds made available by this 
Act may be used to enter into a contract, memorandum 
of understanding, or cooperative agreement with, make a 
grant to, or provide a loan or loan guarantee to, any cor-
poration that was convicted (or had an officer or agent 
of such corporation acting on behalf of the corporation 
convicted) of a felony criminal violation under any Federal 
or State law within the preceding 24 months. 
SEC. 743. None of the funds made available by this 
Act or any other Act may be used to provide payments 
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