Julian Bond: “The report accompanying S. 1150 makes clear that the committee intends that the Secretary utilize funds from the…”

“The report accompanying S. 1150 makes clear that the committee intends that the Secretary utilize funds from the initiative for future agriculture and food systems, established under title III of the bill, for the plant genome initiative and the animal genome initiative. Under the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems, there is no provision for coordinated, directed, and focused programs. Am I correct in assuming that while the funds for the food genome strategy may be derived from the Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems, it is the intent of the managers that the food genome strategy would, in fact, be a coordinated, directed program?”