(1) VOUCHERS.—Payments for expenses of the 
Committee shall be made using vouchers authorized 
by the Committee, signed by the chairman of the 
Committee, and approved in a manner directed by 
the Committee on House Administration of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Rules and Administration of the Senate. 
(2) SOURCE OF FUNDS.— 
(A) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.—There 
shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of 
the House of Representatives $3,000,000 to 
carry out this section during the 111th Con-
gress. 
(B) SENATE.—There shall be paid out of 
the contingent fund of the Senate $3,000,000 
to carry out this section during the 111th Con-
gress. 
SEC. 6. FUNDING AND DEFINITION. 
(a) FUNDING.—To carry out the comprehensive gov-
ernmentwide strategy described in section 4(e), it is the 
sense of Congress that not less than $50,360,000,000 
should be made available for fiscal years 2010 through 
2014 for Federal programs addressing global hunger and 
food security. During such five-year period, funding 
should increase investments in intermediate and long-term 
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programs, including safety nets, nutrition, and agricul-
tural development programs, and maintain sufficient re-
sources for emergency management and response. It is 
further the sense of Congress that funding for Federal 
programs addressing global hunger and food security 
should, to the maximum extent possible, use as guidance 
and not be less than those amounts described for fiscal 
years 2010 through 2014 in the Roadmap to End Global 
Hunger. 
(b) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘Road-
map to End Global Hunger’’ means the report entitled 
‘‘Roadmap To End Global Hunger’’, released on February 
24, 2009, and endorsed by the following organizations: 
(1) ACDI/VOCA. 
(2) Action Against Hunger. 
(3) Africare. 
(4) Alliance for Global Food Security. 
(5) Alliance to End Hunger. 
(6) American Jewish World Service. 
(7) Better World Campaign. 
(8) Bread for the World. 
(9) CARE. 
(10) Catholic Relief Services. 
(11) Christian Children’s Fund. 
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(12) Christian Reformed World Relief Com-
mittee. 
(13) Church World Service. 
(14) Concern Worldwide. 
(15) Congressional Hunger Center. 
(16) Counterpart International. 
(17) Covenant World Relief. 
(18) Episcopal Relief and Development. 
(19) Feed the Children. 
(20) Food for the Hungry. 
(21) Friends of the World Food Program. 
(22) Global Child Nutrition Foundation. 
(23) Heifer International. 
(24) The Humpty Dumpty Institute. 
(25) The International Center for Research on 
Women. 
(26) International Relief and Development. 
(27) Islamic Relief. 
(28) LIFE for Relief and Development. 
(29) MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger. 
(30) Mercy Corps. 
(31) Oxfam America. 
(32) Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in 
Africa. 
(33) PATH. 
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(34) Project Concern International. 
(35) RESULTS. 
(36) Save the Children. 
(37) United Methodist Committee on Relief 
(UMCOR). 
(38) US Coalition for Child Survival. 
(39) U.S. Fund for UNICEF. 
(40) Women Organizing for Change in Agri-
culture and NRM. 
(41) Women Thrive Worldwide. 
(42) World Vision. 
SEC. 7. DEFINITION OF UNDERNOURISHMENT. 
In this Act, the term ‘‘undernourishment’’, as defined 
by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organiza-
tion, means the condition of people whose food consump-
tion is continuously below a minimum dietary energy re-
quirement for maintaining an acceptable minimum body 
size, living a healthy life, and carrying out light physical 
activity. In this Act, the terms ‘‘chronic undernourish-
ment’’, ‘‘food insecurity’’, and ‘‘hunger’’ have the same 
meaning as ‘‘undernourishment’’. 
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