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EAT Healthy America Act

To continue and expand upon previous congressional efforts to ensure an abundant and affordable supply of fruits, vegetables, tree nuts, and other specialty crops for American consumers and international markets, to enhance the competitiveness of United States-grown specialty crops, and for other purposes.

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3/20/2007--Introduced.
Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act or EAT Healthy America Act - Amends provisions with respect to:
(1) specialty crops;
(2) the tree assistance program;
(3) the conservation reserve program;
(4)b> the wetlands reserve program;
(5) the farmland protection program;
(6) the grassland reserve program;
(7) the wildlife habitat incentive program;
(8) the environmental qualities incentives program;
(9) air quality improvement;
(10) integrated pest management initiative;
(11) the conservation loan guarantee program;
(12) agricultural trade;
(13) invasive pests and diseases;
(14) nutrition;
(15) agricultural research;
(16) renewable energy, including crop biomass waste; and
(17) farm labor housing.

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Rep. Dennis Cardoza [D, CA-18]

and 119 Co-Sponsors
Thomas Allen
Rep. Robert Andrews [D, NJ-1]
Rep. Michael Arcuri [D, NY-24]
Rep. Brian Baird [D, WA-3]
Rep. John Barrow [D, GA-12]
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett [R, MD-6]
Rep. Xavier Becerra [D, CA-31]
Rep. Shelley Berkley [D, NV-1]
Rep. Gus Bilirakis [R, FL-9]
Rep. Timothy Bishop [D, NY-1]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D, OR-3]
Rep. Mary Bono Mack [R, CA-45]
Rep. Allen Boyd [D, FL-2]
Rep. Henry Brown [R, SC-1]
Rep. George Butterfield [D, NC-1]
Rep. Ken Calvert [R, CA-44]
Rep. David Camp [R, MI-4]
Rep. Lois Capps [D, CA-23]
Rep. Russ Carnahan [D, MO-3]
Rep. Yvette Clarke [D, NY-11]
Rep. Jim Costa [D, CA-20]
Rep. Joe Courtney [D, CT-2]
Rep. Ander Crenshaw [R, FL-4]
Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28]
Rep. Elijah Cummings [D, MD-7]
Rep. Susan Davis [D, CA-53]
Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4]
Rep. William Delahunt [D, MA-10]
Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart [R, FL-21]
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart [R, FL-25]
Rep. Norman Dicks [D, WA-6]
John Doolittle
Thelma Drake
Philip English
Rep. Anna Eshoo [D, CA-14]
Rep. Sam Farr [D, CA-17]
Rep. Bob Filner [D, CA-51]
Luis Fortuño
Rep. Elton Gallegly [R, CA-24]
Wayne Gilchrest
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand [D, NY-20]
Virgil Goode
Rep. John Hall [D, NY-19]
Rep. Jane Harman [D, CA-36]
Rep. Doc Hastings [R, WA-4]
Rep. Alcee Hastings [D, FL-23]
Rep. Brian Higgins [D, NY-27]
Rep. Maurice Hinchey [D, NY-22]
Rep. Rubén Hinojosa [D, TX-15]
Rep. Mazie Hirono [D, HI-2]
Rep. Peter Hoekstra [R, MI-2]
Rep. Rush Holt [D, NJ-12]
Rep. Michael Honda [D, CA-15]
Darlene Hooley
Rep. Jay Inslee [D, WA-1]
Rep. Steve Israel [D, NY-2]
Rep. Darrell Issa [R, CA-49]
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D, TX-18]
Rep. Steve Kagen [D, WI-8]
Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D, OH-9]
Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D, MI-13]
Rep. Ron Klein [D, FL-22]
John Kuhl
Tom Lantos
Rep. Rick Larsen [D, WA-2]
Rep. John Larson [D, CT-1]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D, CA-9]
Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D, CA-16]
Rep. Daniel Lungren [R, CA-3]
Tim Mahoney
Rep. Doris Matsui [D, CA-5]
Rep. Kevin McCarthy [R, CA-22]
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter [R, MI-11]
Rep. James McDermott [D, WA-7]
Rep. John McHugh [R, NY-23]
Rep. Mike McIntyre [D, NC-7]
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers [R, WA-5]
Rep. Jerry McNerney [D, CA-11]
Rep. John Mica [R, FL-7]
Rep. Michael Michaud [D, ME-2]
Rep. George Miller [D, CA-7]
Rep. Gwen Moore [D, WI-4]
Rep. Eleanor Norton [D, DC-0]
Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21]
Rep. Ed Perlmutter [D, CO-7]
Rep. Todd Platts [R, PA-19]
Rep. David Price [D, NC-4]
Rep. Adam Putnam [R, FL-12]
Rep. George Radanovich [R, CA-19]
Rep. Nick Rahall [D, WV-3]
Rick Renzi
Thomas Reynolds
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R, FL-18]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard [D, CA-34]
Rep. C.A. Ruppersberger [D, MD-2]
Rep. Bobby Rush [D, IL-1]
Rep. John Salazar [D, CO-3]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez [D, CA-47]
Rep. Linda Sánchez [D, CA-39]
Rep. Adam Schiff [D, CA-29]
Christopher Shays
Rep. Brad Sherman [D, CA-27]
Rep. Heath Shuler [D, NC-11]
Rep. Michael Simpson [R, ID-2]
Rep. Louise Slaughter [D, NY-28]
Rep. Adam Smith [D, WA-9]
Rep. Hilda Solis [D, CA-32]
Rep. Ellen Tauscher [D, CA-10]
Rep. C. Thompson [D, CA-1]
Rep. Edolphus Towns [D, NY-10]
Rep. Frederick Upton [R, MI-6]
Rep. Greg Walden [R, OR-2]
James Walsh
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D, FL-20]
Rep. Diane Watson [D, CA-33]
Rep. Peter Welch [D, VT-0]
Heather Wilson
Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D, CA-6]
Rep. David Wu [D, OR-1]
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House Agriculture
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House Agriculture
House Energy and Commerce
House Ways and Means
House Education and Labor
House Financial Services
House Education and Labor
House Agriculture
House Financial Services
House Agriculture
House Agriculture
House Ways and Means
House Energy and Commerce
House Agriculture
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Jun 27, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.

Jun 07, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.

May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.

May 04, 2007: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.

May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.

May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.

May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.

May 04, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.

Apr 10, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.

Mar 21, 2007: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to House Ways and Means

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to House Education and Labor

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to House Agriculture

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to House Financial Services

Introduced on Mar 20, 2007.

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to House Energy and Commerce

Mar 20, 2007: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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.

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July 28, 2007 Give veggie growers a break

HR 1600 (the Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act), focuses on providing consumers with a safe, healthy and nutritious food supply while ...

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July 19, 2007 Guest opinion: Farm Bill offers more healthful options

HR 1600, the Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act (EAT Healthy America Act), focuses on injecting competition into the marketplace and ...

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July 17, 2007 Healthy help for Florida to compete

The Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance strongly supports HR 1600 -- the Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act -- which focuses on providing ...

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August 27, 2008 Kids' Obesity Rates Leveling Off

This year Congress will consider the Strengthening Physical Education Act (HR 1224) and the Eat Healthy America Act (HR 1600), as well as several other bills aimed at legislating healthy behavior and reducing the percentage of Americans ...

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HR 1600 To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to reserve funds to provide special training, technical assistance, and professional development to eligible entities implementing Even Start programs and to the staff ...

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June 20, 2008 bills affecting the appraisal insustry

eat healthy america act (introduced in house)[hr1600.ih] 50 . federal housing enterprise regulatory reform act of 2007 (introduced in senate)[s.1100.is] 51 . safetea-lu technical corrections act of 2008 (engrossed amendment as agreed to ...

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