COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF NEW BUDGET (OBLIGATIONAL) AUTHORITY FOR FISCAL YEAR 1969 AND BUDGET ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS RECOMMENDED IN THE BILL FOR FISCAL YEAR 1970-Continued [NOTE.-All amounts are in the form of "appropriations" unless otherwise indicated.] Mr. YOUNG of North Dakota, from the Committee on REPORT [To accompany S. 2226] The Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, to which was referred the bill (S. 2226) to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to provide that review committee members may be appointed from any county within a State and that the Secretary of Agriculture may institute proceedings in court to obtain a review of any review committee determination, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the bill (as amended) do pass. EXPLANATION OF BILL This bill would amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 to (1) permit farm marketing quota review committee members to be appointed from any county in the State (instead of from only the county in which the farm subject to the quota being reviewed is located or nearby counties); and (2) permit the Secretary to obtain a court review of the review committee's determination. COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Existing law provides that the bill of complaint (in a proceeding brought by a farmer) shall be served upon a member of the review committee. The bill is silent as to who shall be served in a proceeding brought by the Secretary. The Committee amendment would clarify this situation by specifying that review proceedings instituted by the Secretary shall be "against the farmer as defendant". |