Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 relating to the Secretary of Agriculture's administration of tariff-rate quotas for raw and refined sugar.

Bill: 113-hres-378
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2013-10-11
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Agricultural trade

House of Representatives

Legislative rules and procedure

Tariffs

Trade restrictions
Latest action: action_date: 2013-10-12
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

Summaries:
action_date: 2013-10-11
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the House managers of the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 2642 (Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013) should advance provisions to repeal the Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas language as added by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and thus restore the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA) to manage sugar supplies to meet domestic demand at reasonable prices.</p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 1st Session H. RES. 378 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES October 11, 2013 Mr. Pitts (for himself, Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mr. Goodlatte , and Mr. Blumenauer ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture , and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means , for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned October 11, 2013 The Committees on Agriculture and Ways and Means discharged and considered RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 relating to the Secretary of Agriculture’s administration of tariff-rate quotas for raw and refined sugar.

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that the managers on the part of the House of the conference on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill H.R. 2642 (an Act to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes) should advance provisions to repeal the Administration of Tariff Rate Quotas language as added by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and thus restore the Secretary of Agriculture’s authority to manage supplies of sugar throughout the marketing year to meet domestic demand at reasonable prices.