S.Amdt. 1126

SA 1126. Ms. STABENOW submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 948 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 3055,
making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice,
Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30,
2020, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as
follows:

At the appropriate place in title VII of division B, insert
the following:
Sec. __.  The Secretary of Agriculture shall enter into an
arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences under which
the National Academy of Sciences shall--
(1) conduct a study on any postponements, delays, or
cancellations of activities or research or other lost
research, work product, or opportunities of the Economic
Research Service and the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture, including work impacted by loss of staff
expertise and experience of those agencies, in fiscal year
2020; and
(2) submit to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry of the Senate and the Committee on Agriculture of
the House of Representatives a report describing the results
of the study conducted under paragraph (1), including
recommendations on future research priorities for the
agencies described in paragraph (1) to address challenges to
agriculture, families, and the rural United States.
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