Congress 107 - HR 2164 - To amend the Agricultural Market Transition Act to gradually reduce the loan rate for peanuts, to repeal peanut quotas for the 2004 and subsequent crops, and to require the Secretary of Agriculture to purchase peanuts and peanut products for nutrition programs only at the world market price, and for other purposes.

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Agricultural credit Agricultural price supports Agricultural prices Agricultural subsidies Agricultural surpluses Agriculture and Food Child nutrition Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Families Farm production quotas Finance and Financial Sector Food relief Food stamps Government lending Marketing of farm produce Minorities Native Americans Nutrition and the aged Peanuts School lunch program Social Welfare

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Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to: (1) reduce quota peanut price support levels through crop year 2003; (2) extend marketing assessment services through 2003; and (3) make nonrecourse loans available to all peanut producers at 85 percent of estimated market value as of crop year 2004.

Amends the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to eliminate peanut quotas as of crop year 2004.

Amends the National School Lunch Act to authorize the purchase at world market price of additional (excess of poundage quota) peanuts for the school lunch and other specified food and nutrition programs. States that such peanuts shall not be considered domestic edible use peanuts under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 or the Agricultural Market Transition Act.

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Aug 20, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Education Reform.
Jun 18, 2001

Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture Programs.
Jun 13, 2001

Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, 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.
Jun 13, 2001

Introduced in House

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