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Jack Kingston: “The Ag Marketing Service actually gets that $77.5 million in appropriation, and in addition, has the ability to collect…”

On the recordJune 14, 2011
The Ag Marketing Service actually gets that $77.5 million in appropriation, and in addition, has the ability to collect up to $61 million in fees. If you think about it, that's not unusual in this account. The FDA actually does the same thing. I think they get over $1 billion in fees. So some of these accounts do get an appropriation, and then they on their own can go out and get some fees, not just to supplement them, but in some cases to almost match them as the AMS has done.
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Jack Kingston
Georgia
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Jun 14, 2011

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