Scrap the MAP Act

Scrap the MAP Act - Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the Market Access Program (MAP) of the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (MAP is a program that uses funds from the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation [CCC] to aid in the creation, expansion, and maintenance of foreign markets for U.S. agricultural products.)

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4683 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4683

To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the Market Access 
               Program of the Department of Agriculture.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 24, 2010

 Mr. Patrick J. Murphy of Pennsylvania (for himself and Mr. Garrett of 
 New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                        Committee on Agriculture

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to repeal the Market Access 
               Program of the Department of Agriculture.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Scrap the MAP Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF MARKET ACCESS PROGRAM.

    (a) Repeal of Program.--Section 203 of the Agricultural Trade Act 
of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5623) is repealed.
    (b) Repeal of Funding.--Section 211 of the Agricultural Trade Act 
of 1978 (7 U.S.C. 5641) is amended by striking subsection (c).
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