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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2833
To amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, to require
that perishable agricultural products be labeled or marked as to their
country of origin.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 22, 1995
Ms. KAPTUR (for herself and Mrs. THURMAN) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture
A BILL
To amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act,
1930, to require that perishable agricultural products
be labeled or marked as to their country of origin.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING OF PERISH-
ABLE AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES.
(a) LABELING REQUIRED.—Section 14 of the Perish-
able Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930 (7 U.S.C. 499n),
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(c) COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABELING.—(1) The Sec-
retary shall carry out a nationwide program to require
perishable agricultural commodities (or the bins, display
cases, or similar containers holding such perishable agri-
cultural commodities) to be labeled, marked, or otherwise
clearly identified at the retail level as to their country of
origin.
‘‘(2) The program shall apply to imported and domes-
tic perishable agricultural commodities, including perish-
able agricultural commodities that are exempted, under
section 304(a)(3)(J) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.
1304(a)(3)(J)), from the country of origin marking re-
quirements of that Act.’’.
(b) PENALTIES.—Subsection (b) of such section is
amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘or country of origin label re-
quired’’ after ‘‘certificate issued’’; and
(2) by inserting ‘‘or label’’ after ‘‘certificate’’
the last place it appears.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Such section is fur-
ther amended by striking ‘‘SEC. 14’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing:
‘‘SEC. 14. INSPECTION AND LABELING OF PERISHABLE AG-
RICULTURAL COMMODITIES.’’.
(d) APPLICATION OF AMENDMENTS.—The amend-
ments made by this section shall apply with respect to per-
ishable agricultural commodities marketed on or after one
year after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 491 
To prevent United States businesses from cooperating with repressive govern-
ments in transforming the Internet into a tool of censorship and surveil-
lance, to fulfill the responsibility of the United States Government to 
promote freedom of expression on the Internet, to restore public con-
fidence in the integrity of United States businesses, and for other pur-
poses. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 4, 2013 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committees 
on Ways and Means and Financial Services, for a period to be subse-
quently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To prevent United States businesses from cooperating with 
repressive governments in transforming the Internet into 
a tool of censorship and surveillance, to fulfill the respon-
sibility of the United States Government to promote free-
dom of expression on the Internet, to restore public 
confidence in the integrity of United States businesses, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
not later than 180 days after the date of enactment 
of this subsection, the Administrator shall revise the 
certification requirements for the labeling of con-
sumer, home, and office electronic products for pro-
gram partners that have complied with all require-
ments of the Energy Star program for a period of 
at least 18 months. 
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATION.—In the case of a pro-
gram partner described in paragraph (1), the new 
requirements under paragraph (1)— 
‘‘(A) shall not require third-party certifi-
cation for a product to be listed; but 
‘‘(B) may require that test data and other 
product information be submitted to facilitate 
product listing and performance verification for 
a sample of products. 
‘‘(3) THIRD
PARTIES.—Nothing in this sub-
section prevents the Administrator from using third 
parties in the course of the administration of the 
Energy Star program. 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graph (B), an exemption from third-party cer-
tification provided to a program partner under 
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Sec. 6. Prohibition on use of mercury as a fungicide.
Sec. 7. Use and disposal of mercury by Department of Defense.
Sec. 8. Requirements for waste processors and disposal facilities.
Sec. 9. Surcharge on mercury air emissions.
Sec. 10. FDA study of mercury compounds in drugs and food.
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress makes the following
findings:
(1) On the basis of available scientific and med-
ical evidence, exposure to mercury and other toxic
metals, is of concern to human health and the envi-
ronment.
(2) The presence of mercury and other toxic
metals in consumer products is of concern in light
of the health consequences associated with exposure
to mercury and other toxic metals.
(3) The presence of mercury and other toxic
metals in certain batteries is of special concern, par-
ticularly in light of the substantial quantity of used
batteries discarded annually in the solid waste
stream and the potential environmental and health
consequences 
associated 
with 
land 
disposal,
composting, or incineration.
(4) A comprehensive study of the use of mer-
cury by the Department of Defense will significantly
further the goal of reducing mercury pollution.
(b) PURPOSES.—It is the purpose of this Act to—
502
HR 2854 EAS
dated Farm and Rural Development Act (7 U.S.C. 1921
et seq.) from conditioning or limiting access to, or the use
of, water and waste facility services financed under the
Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act if the con-
ditioning or limiting is based on whether individuals or
entities in the area served or proposed to be served by the
facility receive, or will accept, electric service from the bor-
rower.’’.
SEC. 779. TELEPHONE LOAN TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
Section 309 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936
(7 U.S.C. 939) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘(a) IN GEN-
ERAL.—’’; and
(2) by striking subsection (b).
SEC. 780. PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM.
Section 311 of the Rural Electrification Act of 1936
(7 U.S.C. 940a) is repealed.
SEC. 781. RURAL BUSINESS INCUBATOR FUND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 502 of the Rural Elec-
trification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950aa–1) is repealed.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 501 of the
Rural Electrification Act of 1936 (7 U.S.C. 950aa) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
and due diligence requirements, under both statute and
regulation. The Secretary shall also provide information
on the successful practices of low-default lenders, servicers
and guaranty agencies to other financial, servicing and
guaranty institutions participating in this title to encour-
age duplication of successful servicing and collection pro-
grams.’’.
(f) CIRCUMSTANCES.—Section 435(a)(2) of the
Higher Education Act of 1965 is amended by adding at
the end the following:
‘‘(D) The circumstances referred to in subpara-
graph (A)(ii) shall be uniformly applied to all eligible
institutions and shall require that such an institu-
tion meet the following criteria:
‘‘(i) Not less than 50 percent of the stu-
dents enrolled in eligible programs qualify for
an award under subpart 1 of part A of title IV.
‘‘(ii) The institution’s student completion
rate, as calculated under the Student Right to
Know provisions of this title, is 60 percent or
greater.
‘‘(iii) The initial job placement rate of pro-
gram graduates is 60 percent or greater.’’.
(g) 
COHORT
DEFAULT
RATE.—Section
435(m)(1)(B) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 is
paragraph (1) shall terminate if the program 
partner is found to have violated program re-
quirements with respect to at least 2 separate 
models during a 2-year period. 
‘‘(B) RESUMPTION.—A termination for a 
program partner under subparagraph (A) shall 
cease if the program partner complies with all 
Energy Star program requirements for a period 
of at least 3 years.’’. 
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(N) otherwise ensuring that countries that 
accede to the World Trade Organization have 
made meaningful market liberalization commit-
ments in agriculture; 
(O) taking into account the impact that 
agreements covering agriculture to which the 
United States is a party have on the United 
States agricultural industry; 
(P) maintaining bona fide food assistance 
programs, market development programs, and 
export credit programs; 
(Q) seeking to secure the broadest market 
access possible in multilateral, regional, and bi-
lateral negotiations, recognizing the effect that 
simultaneous sets of negotiations may have on 
United States import sensitive commodities (in-
cluding those subject to tariff rate quotas); 
(R) seeking to develop an international 
consensus on the treatment of seasonal or per-
ishable agricultural products in investigations 
relating to dumping and safeguards and in any 
other relevant area; 
(S) seeking to establish the common base 
year for calculating the Aggregated Measure-
ment of Support (as defined in the Agreement 
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on Agriculture) as the end of each country’s 
Uruguay Round implementation period, as re-
ported in each country’s Uruguay Round mar-
ket access schedule; 
(T) ensuring transparency in the adminis-
tration of tariff rate quotas through multilat-
eral, plurilateral, and bilateral negotiations; and 
(U) eliminating and preventing the under-
mining of market access for United States 
products through improper use of a country’s 
system for protecting or recognizing geo-
graphical indications, including failing to ensure 
transparency and procedural fairness and pro-
tecting generic terms. 
(4) FOREIGN INVESTMENT.—Recognizing that 
United States law on the whole provides a high level 
of protection for investment, consistent with or 
greater than the level required by international law, 
the principal negotiating objectives of the United 
States regarding foreign investment are to reduce or 
eliminate artificial or trade distorting barriers to for-
eign investment, while ensuring that foreign inves-
tors in the United States are not accorded greater 
substantive rights with respect to investment protec-
tions than United States investors in the United 
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‘‘SEC. 12004. RETURN OF REFUND VALUE.
‘‘(a) PAYMENT BY RETAILER.—If any person tenders
for refund a used battery to a battery retailer who sells
(or has sold at any time during the period of 3 months
ending on the date of such tender) the same brand of bat-
tery, the retailer shall promptly pay such person the
amount of the refund value stated on the battery.
‘‘(b) PAYMENT
BY DISTRIBUTOR.—If any person
tenders for refund a used battery to a battery distributor
who sells (or has sold at any time during the period of
3 months ending on the date of such tender) the same
brand of battery, the distributor shall promptly pay such
person (1) the amount of the refund value stated on the
battery, plus (2) an amount equal to at least 10 cents per
battery to help defray the cost of handling. This sub-
section shall not preclude any person from tendering bat-
teries to persons other than battery distributors.
‘‘(c) AGREEMENTS.—(1) Nothing in this subtitle
shall preclude agreements between distributors, retailers,
or other persons to establish centralized battery collection
centers, including centers which act as agents of such re-
tailers.
‘‘(2) Nothing in this subtitle shall preclude agree-
ments between battery retailers, battery distributors, or
other persons for the crushing or bundling (or both) of
batteries.
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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2835
To reduce the risk of mercury pollution through use reduction, increased
recycling, and reduction of emissions into the environment, and for other
purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 22, 1995
Mr. PALLONE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Commerce
A BILL
To reduce the risk of mercury pollution through use reduc-
tion, increased recycling, and reduction of emissions into
the environment, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Mercury Environ-
mental Risk and Comprehensive Utilization Reduction Ini-
tiative’’.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents.
Sec. 2. Congressional findings and purposes.
Sec. 3. Prohibition on mercury batteries.
Sec. 4. Battery recycling.
Sec. 5. Reduction of mercury in packaging.
(5) RICE.—The loan rate for a marketing as-
sistance loan under subsection (a)(1) for rice shall
be $6.50 per hundredweight.
(6) OILSEEDS.—
(A) SOYBEANS.—The loan rate for a mar-
keting assistance loan under subsection (a)(1)
for soybeans shall be $4.92 per bushel.
(B) 
SUNFLOWER
SEED, 
CANOLA,
RAPESEED, SAFFLOWER, MUSTARD SEED, AND
FLAXSEED.—The loan rates for a marketing as-
sistance loan under subsection (a)(1) for sun-
flower seed, canola, rapeseed, safflower, mus-
tard seed, and flaxseed, individually, shall be
$0.087 per pound.
(C) OTHER OILSEEDS.—The loan rates for
a marketing assistance loan under subsection
(a)(1) for other oilseeds shall be established at
such level as the Secretary determines is fair
and reasonable in relation to the loan rate
available for soybeans, except in no event shall
the rate for the oilseeds (other than cottonseed)
be less than the rate established for soybeans
on a per-pound basis for the same crop.
(c) TERM OF LOAN.—In the case of each loan com-
modity (other than upland cotton or extra long staple cot-
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104TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2836
To provide increased access to health care benefits, to provide increased
portability of health care benefits, to provide increased security of health
care benefits, to increase the purchasing power of individuals and small
employers, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DECEMBER 22, 1995
Mrs. ROUKEMA introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Economic and
Educational Opportunities and Ways and Means, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To provide increased access to health care benefits, to provide
increased portability of health care benefits, to provide
increased security of health care benefits, to increase
the purchasing power of individuals and small employers,
and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Health Insurance Re-
form Act of 1996’’.
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upon foreign sources of these mineral materials, as 
demonstrated by the following: 
(A) Twenty-five years ago the United 
States was dependent on foreign sources for 30 
nonfuel mineral materials, 6 of which the 
United States imported 100 percent of the Na-
tion’s requirements, and for another 16 com-
modities the United States imported more than 
60 percent of the Nation’s needs. 
(B) By 2011 the United States import de-
pendence for nonfuel mineral materials had 
more than doubled from 30 to 67 commodities, 
19 of which the United States imported 100 
percent of the Nation’s requirements, and for 
another 24 commodities, imported more than 
50 percent of the Nation’s needs. 
(C) The United States share of worldwide 
mineral exploration dollars was 8 percent in 
2011, down from 19 percent in the early 1990s. 
(D) In the 2012 Ranking of Countries for 
Mining Investment, out of 25 major mining 
countries, the United States ranked last with 
Papua New Guinea in permitting delays, and 
towards the bottom regarding government take 
and social issues affecting mining.
States, and to secure for investors important rights 
comparable to those that would be available under 
United States legal principles and practice, by— 
(A) reducing or eliminating exceptions to 
the principle of national treatment; 
(B) freeing the transfer of funds relating 
to investments; 
(C) reducing or eliminating performance 
requirements, forced technology transfers, and 
other unreasonable barriers to the establish-
ment and operation of investments; 
(D) seeking to establish standards for ex-
propriation and compensation for expropriation, 
consistent with United States legal principles 
and practice; 
(E) seeking to establish standards for fair 
and equitable treatment, consistent with United 
States legal principles and practice, including 
the principle of due process; 
(F) providing meaningful procedures for 
resolving investment disputes; 
(G) seeking to improve mechanisms used 
to resolve disputes between an investor and a 
government through— 
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ton), a marketing assistance loan under subsection (a)(1)
shall have a term of 9 months beginning on the first day
of the first month after the month in which the loan is
made. A marketing assistance loan for upland cotton or
extra long staple cotton shall have a term of 10 months
beginning on the first day of the first month after the
month in which the loan is made. The Secretary may not
extend the term of a marketing assistance loan for any
loan commodity.
(d) REPAYMENT.—
(1) REPAYMENT RATES GENERALLY.—The Sec-
retary shall permit producers to repay a marketing
assistance loan under subsection (a)(1) for a loan
commodity (other than extra long staple cotton) at
a level that is the lesser of—
(A) the loan rate established for the com-
modity under subsection (b); or
(B) the prevailing world market price for
the commodity (adjusted to United States qual-
ity and location), as determined by the Sec-
retary.
(2) 
ADDITIONAL
REPAYMENT
RATES
FOR
WHEAT, FEED GRAINS, AND OILSEEDS.—In the case
of a marketing assistance loan under subsection
(a)(1) for wheat, corn, grain sorghum, barley, oats,
(4) the term ‘‘gradient boundary survey’’ means 
the measurement technique used to demarcate a divi-
sion of ownership or jurisdiction along the South 
Bank under the methodology established by the United 
States Supreme Court which recognizes that the 
boundary line between the States of Texas and Okla-
homa along the Red River is subject to such changes 
as have been or may be wrought by the natural and 
gradual processes known as erosion and accretion as 
specified in the second, third, and fourth paragraphs 
of the decree rendered March 12, 1923, in Oklahoma 
v. Texas, 261 U. S. 340, 43 S. Ct. 376, 67 L. Ed. 687. 
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authority granted by the one House at a rate for oper-
ations not exceeding the current rate or the rate permitted
by the action of the one House, whichever is lower, and
under the authority and conditions provided in the appli-
cable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995: Pro-
vided, That where an item is funded in the applicable ap-
propriations Act for the fiscal year 1995 and not included
in the version passed by the one House as of the date
of enactment of this Act, the pertinent project or activity
shall not be continued except as provided for in section
111 under the appropriation, fund, or authority granted
by the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year
1995 and under the authority and conditions provided in
the applicable appropriations Act for the fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 102. Appropriations made by section 101 shall
be available to the extent and in the manner which would
be provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
SEC. 103. No appropriations or funds made available
or authority granted pursuant to section 101 shall be used
to initiate or resume any project or activity for which ap-
propriations, funds, or other authority were not available
during the fiscal year 1995.
SEC. 104. No provision which is included in an appro-
priations Act enumerated in section 101 but which was
not included in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal
pensed to Medicare beneficiaries. Such system
shall be consistent with the standards estab-
lished by the National Council of Prescription
Drug Programs.
‘‘(B) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary shall provide technical assistance in the
use of the electronic system established under
subparagraph (A) to carriers and pharmacies.
‘‘(c) EDUCATION REGARDING APPROPRIATE USE OF
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Under the MMEDS, the
Secretary (either directly or through contract) shall
provide for an educational outreach program to edu-
cate patients, pharmacists, and other health care
providers concerning—
‘‘(A) instances or patterns of unnecessary
or inappropriate prescribing or dispensing prac-
tices for outpatient prescription drugs,
‘‘(B) instances or patterns of substandard
care with respect to such drugs,
‘‘(C) potential adverse reactions and inter-
actions, and
‘‘(D) appropriate use of generic products.
‘‘(2) INFORMATION ON CHANGES IN PRESCRIB-
ING AND DISPENSING PRACTICES.—Under the pro-