S.Amdt. 1127

SA 1127. Ms. STABENOW (for herself and Mrs. Feinstein) 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. 7__. (a) The Comptroller General of the United States
shall conduct a study evaluating payments made to
agricultural producers through the Market Facilitation
Program established pursuant to the Commodity Credit
Corporation Charter Act (15 U.S.C. 714 et seq.).
(b) Not later than July 31, 2020, the Comptroller General
of the United States shall submit to the Committee on
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, the
Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives, and
the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House
of Representatives a report describing the results of the
study conducted under subsection (a), including an evaluation
of--
(1) whether the Department of Agriculture trade damage
models for the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation Programs
accurately assess all of the trade-related damages, including
tariff and nontariff damages, and whether the payments
proportionally and fairly addressed trade damage for all
types of crops and geographic regions;
(2) the impact of applying the payment limitations and
eligibility requirements under the Agriculture Improvement
Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334; 132 Stat. 4490) or the
payment limitation and eligibility requirements proposed in
the budget of the United States Government submitted by the
President under section 1105 of title 31, United States Code,
for fiscal year 2020 to the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation
Programs; and
(3) an analysis of what measures the Secretary of
Agriculture has implemented or planned to address waste,
fraud, and abuse in the 2018 and 2019 Market Facilitation
Programs, including a comparison of the types

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of measures conducted by other Department of Agriculture
agencies to address waste, fraud, and abuse, such as those
measures under the Federal Crop Insurance Act (7 U.S.C. 1501
et seq.) and nutrition programs, such as the supplemental
nutrition assistance program established under the Food and
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.).
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