Relating to consideration of the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 2642) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes, providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 378) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 relating to the Secretary of Agriculture's administration of tariff-rate quotas for raw and refined sugar, and providing for consideration of the resolution (H. Res. 379) expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 relating to crop insurance.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Congressional Research Service
Official summary
Version 81 · Passed House without amendment · Oct 11, 2013
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
Sets forth the rule for consideration of:
H.Res. 378 (Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 [Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013] relating to the Secretary of Agriculture's administration of tariff-rate quotas for raw and refined sugar), and
H.Res. 379 (Expresses the sense of the House regarding certain provisions of the Senate amendment to H.R. 2642 relating to crop insurance).
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