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handle is hein.crs/govbafd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional A Research Service FY2020 Agriculture Appropriations: H.R. 3164 June 13, 2019 The Agriculture appropriations bill funds the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) except for the Forest Service. It also funds the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and in even-numbered fiscal years the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). (In the House, but not the Senate, appropriations jurisdiction for CFTC rests with the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture.) Agriculture appropriations include both mandatory and discretionary spending. Discretionary amounts, though, are the primary focus during the bill's development. The largest discretionary spending items are the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); agricultural research; rural development; FDA; foreign food aid and trade; farm assistance loans and salaries; food safety inspection; animal and plant health programs, and technical assistance for conservation programs. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture marked up its FY2020 bill on May 23, 2019, by voice vote. On June 4, 2019, the full Appropriations Committee passed and reported an amended bill (H.R. 3164, H.Rept. 116-107) by a vote of 29-21, including adopting four amendments. The $24.3 billion discretionary total in the House-reported Agriculture appropriation would be $1 billion more (+4%) than the comparable amount enacted for FY2019 that includes the CFTC (Table 1, Figure 1). Generally speaking, the House-reported bill did not include most of the reductions proposed by the Trump Administration. For FY2020, the Administration requested $19.2 billion for discretionary-funded accounts within the jurisdiction of Agriculture appropriation, which would be a reduction of $4.1 billion from FY2019 (-18%). The primary changes from FY2019 that comprise the $1 billion overall increase in the House-reported bill are the following (Table 1): * Increase Rural Development accounts by $382 million (+13%), including a $144 million increase for the Rural Housing Service (+9%) and a $208 million increase for the Rural Utilities Service (+34%) to support rural water and waste disposal and rural broadband. In addition, the General Provisions title includes a $338 million increase for a rural broadband pilot program. * Increase foreign agricultural assistance by $377 million (+19%), including increasing Food for Peace humanitarian assistance by $350 million and McGovern-Dole Food for Education by $25 million. In FY2019, Food for Peace had received an increase of $216 Congressional Research Service https://crsreports.congress.gov IN11132 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress

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