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3/27/2007--Introduced.<br/>United States Specialty Crop Export Opportunities Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate plants, plant products, biological control organisms, and noxious weeds for export purposes. Directs the Secretary to: (1) coordinate fruit and vegetable market analyses with the private sector and the Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) make publicly available on an Internet website the status of all export petitions and an explanation of the sanitary or phytosanitary issues associated with each pending export petition, and information on the import requirements of foreign countries for fruits and vegetables. Amends the Homeland Security Act to repeal the transfer of agricultural import and entry inspection functions from the Department of Agriculture to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Directs the Secretary to establish: (1) within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service the international agricultural inspection program to carry out import and entry agricultural inspections; (2) a federal-state agricultural inspection communications system; (3) the International Trade Inspection Advisory Committee; and (4) a special export credit guarantee program. Amends the Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990 to extend: (1) the promotion of agricultural exports to emerging markets program; and (2) the E. (Kika) de la Garza Agricultural Fellowship program.<br/>

1178251200 2007-05-04 Thu Nov 06 20:47:56 -0600 2008 introduced 42557 'unit':6 'ensur':17 'fruit':11 'order':15 'state':7 'veget':13 'access':19 'assist':4 'better':18 'export':8 'market':22 'provid':2 'certain':10 'foreign':21 45319 official introduced 42557 'act':7 '2007':9 'crop':4 'unit':1 'state':2 'export':5 'opportun':6 'specialti':3 49676 short action 42557 1178251200 Fri May 04 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115972 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. N000181 1973-10-01 1013 Longworth House Office Building http://www.nunes.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.ContactForm 21 202-225-3404 Devin 'r':4 'ca':5 '-21':6 'rep':1 'nune':3,8,10 'devin':2,7,9 M 400297 Nunes Devin_Nunes G. Rep. Devin Nunes [R, CA-21] N00007248 6382 Republican 202-225-2523 Roman Catholic CA Devin Nunes http://www.house.gov/nunes/ RepDevinNunes T000460 1951-01-24 231 Cannon House Office Building http://mikethompson.house.gov/contact/email.shtml 1 202-225-4335 C. 'c':2,7,10 'd':4 '-1':6 'ca':5 'rep':1 'mike':9 'thompson':3,8,11 M 400403 Thompson Mike_Thompson Rep. C. Thompson [D, CA-1] Mike N00007419 6785 Democrat 202-225-3311 Catholic CA Mike C. Thompson 1.875 http://mikethompson.house.gov action 42557 1178251200 Fri May 04 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115972 Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture. action 42557 1178251200 Fri May 04 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115974 Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture. action 42557 1178251200 Fri May 04 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115973 Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. action 42557 1176436800 Fri Apr 13 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115971 Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism. action 42557 1176177600 Tue Apr 10 00:00:00 -0500 2007 121246 Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade. action 42557 1175054400 Wed Mar 28 00:00:00 -0500 2007 115970 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E654-655) action 42557 1174968000 Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 -0500 2007 107390 Referred to House Agriculture introduced 42557 1174968000 Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 -0500 2007 107388 action 42557 1174968000 Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 -0500 2007 107389 Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Homeland Security, 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. action 42557 1174968000 Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 -0500 2007 107392 Referred to House Homeland Security action 42557 1174968000 Tue Mar 27 00:00:00 -0500 2007 107391 Referred to House Ways and Means