Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs

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Page 27 - Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 47 - State shall finance, or cause to be financed, from funds available to the State or political subdivision thereof, the costs of carrying out the administrative responsibilities assigned to it under the provisions of this chapter.
Page 64 - Ibid., 5. Ibid., 6. Ibid., 7. Ibid., 8 Ibid., 9. Ibid., 10. Ibid., 11. Ibid., 12. Ibid., 13. Ibid., 14.
Page 70 - Federal-State program of food assistance to be operated through normal channels of trade; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as "The Food Stamp Act of 1964".
Page 47 - To carry out the provisions of this Act, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated not...
Page 33 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, in order to promote the general welfare, that the Nation's abundance of food should be utilized...
Page 80 - DEFINITIONS SEC. 3. As used in this Act — (a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Agriculture. (b) The term "food" means any food or food product for...
Page 35 - When used in this Act : (a) The term "Secretary" means the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. (b) The term...
Page 40 - ... (c) The value of the coupon allotment provided to any eligible household which is in excess of the amount charged such households for such allotment shall not be considered to be income or resources for any purpose under any Federal or State laws including, but not limited to, laws relating to taxation, welfare, and public assistance programs.

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