Open Congress : Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture - Major Bill Actions

Bill Introduced: H.R.6341 To establish a loan program to promote energy conservation in rural areas.

2010-09-28T20:00:00Z

To establish a loan program to promote energy conservation in rural areas.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6375 Free Market Sugar Act

2010-09-28T20:00:00Z

To repeal the sugar price support program and marketing allotments for sugar, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6342 To establish pilot projects for agriculture renewable energy systems.

2010-09-28T20:00:00Z

To establish pilot projects for agriculture renewable energy systems.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6325 Consumer Right To Know Food Labeling Act of 2010

2010-09-28T20:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the Federal Meat Inspection Act to require that food that contains bioengineered products be labeled accordingly, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.6246 Rural Energy Communities Development Act of 2010

2010-09-28T20:00:00Z

To provide for loans to rural energy-producing communities in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5577 Genetically Engineered Food Right to Know Act

2010-06-22T20:00:00Z

To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the Federal Meat Inspection Act, and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to require that food that contains a genetically engineered material, or that is produced with a genetically engineered material, be labeled accordingly.

Bill Introduced: H.R.5578 Genetically Engineered Safety Act

2010-06-22T20:00:00Z

To prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops, to prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical, to establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts to prevent human, animal, and general environmental exposure to genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of genetically engineered foods, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.Res.975 Recognizing the potential for a national fresh food financing initiative to provide an effective and economically sustainable solution to the problem of limited access to healthy foods in underserved urban, suburban, and rural low-income communities, while also improving health and stimulating local economic development.

2009-12-14T19:00:00Z

Recognizing the potential for a national fresh food financing initiative to provide an effective and economically sustainable solution to the problem of limited access to healthy foods in underserved urban, suburban, and rural low-income communities, while also improving health and stimulating local economic development.

Bill Introduced: H.R.4288 STOPP Act of 2009

2009-12-10T19:00:00Z

To prohibit the provision of Federal economic development assistance for any State or locality that uses the power of eminent domain power to obtain property for private commercial development or that fails to pay relocation costs to persons displaced by use of the power of eminent domain for economic development purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.3090 Health Empowerment Zone Act of 2009

2009-06-25T20:00:00Z

To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.

Bill Introduced: H.R.1581 Patient-Focused Critical Care Enhancement Act

2009-03-17T20:00:00Z

To optimize the delivery of critical care medicine and expand the critical care workforce.