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      "title": "Appropriations for FY2004: U.S. Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies",
      "summary": "On January 23, 2004, the President signed into law an FY2004 consolidated appropriations\nmeasure\n( P.L. 108-199 ,  H.R. 2673 ) that includes annual funding for the U.S. Department of\nAgriculture and Related Agencies. The full House approved the conference agreement of the\nmeasure on December 8, 2003. Senate floor action on the conference agreement was delayed for\nseveral weeks until a cloture motion was approved and the conference agreement was adopted on\nJanuary 22, 2004. Part of the reason for the delay in Senate consideration of the measure was\nopposition to a conference-adopted provision that postpones implementation of country-of-origin\nlabeling (COOL) for fresh fruits and vegetables, and red meats, for two years, until September 30,\n2006. Until enactment of  P.L. 108-199 , FY2004 spending for USDA and related agencies had been\ngoverned by several continuing resolutions (most recently  P.L. 108-135 ,  H.J.Res. 79 ),\nwhich allowed FY2004 spending to continue at the FY2003 level.\n  The FY2004 consolidated appropriations act contains $80.63 billion for USDA and related\nagencies for FY2004 (excluding the effects of a 0.59% across-the-board rescission in all\ndiscretionary, non-defense accounts, as required by the final law). As originally reported by their\nrespective committees,  H.R. 2673  and  S. 1427  contained nearly identical\nappropriations of $77.49 billion. However, the Senate added $2.2 billion to the mandatory food\nstamp account to reflect more recent projections of program participation, and conferees added $1\nbillion to the food stamp reserve account. Just over three-fourths ($63.7 billion) of the spending in\nthe agriculture portion (Division A) of  P.L. 108-199  is classified as mandatory spending, including\nfood stamps, child nutrition programs, crop insurance, and the various farm support programs funded\nthrough USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation. \n  The balance of spending ($16.9 billion) in Division A is for discretionary programs, which is\n$198 million below the Administration's request and $61 million below both the House- and\nSenate-passed levels. Discretionary spending in Division A of the measure is $963 million below\nthe FY2003 enacted level including supplementals. Agriculture appropriators were allocated nearly\n$1 billion less for FY2004 discretionary accounts than the FY2003 level including supplementals.\nTo help achieve this goal,  P.L. 108-199  includes an FY2004 appropriation for foreign food aid that\nis $572 million below the FY2003 level (which was bolstered by supplemental spending). Also,  P.L.\n108-199  contains provisions that limit or prohibit spending on certain mandatory conservation, rural\ndevelopment, and research programs, which in total reduced spending in these accounts by\napproximately $650 million from authorized levels.\n  The measure did not include a Senate provision that would have relaxed the licensing\nrequirement for travel to Cuba for the sale of agricultural and medical products. Conferees also\nrejected a House provision that would have blocked FDA from preventing individuals from\nimporting cheaper FDA-approved prescription drugs from foreign suppliers.",
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