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Target Prices and Export Initiatives Act of 1983

Public Law 98-284 · H.R. 2733 · 98th Congress · began in the House

Signed by Ronald Reagan (R) on May 16, 1984 · Armed Forces and National Security

Sponsor: Rep. George Brown (D-CA-36)

Cosponsors: None

Passage votesYeaNay

HouseRecorded vote: 326 yea, 96 nay326–96
SenateVoice vote

Data notes

The final version of the law, as each chamber passed it. A chamber that passed it by voice vote or unanimous consent has no count. “Method not stated” means the record does not say how the chamber voted. Where the record has a member-by-member vote, the “Who voted for it” section shows who voted yea.

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Summary

The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.

Amends the Native Latex Commercialization and Economic Act of 1978 to rename such Act the Critical Agricultural Materials Act.

Broadens the number of agencies and organizations recognized by Congress as participants in native latex research and commercialization to include the National Science Foundation and other public and private industrial research groups.

Recognizes the need to develop domestic agricultural sources for products other than rubber which are of strategic and industrial importance.

Expands the definition of "native" to include other North American agricultural crops of strategic and industrial importance (presently limited to hydrocarbon-containing plants, including guayule).

Eliminates the definition of "regional commissions" (no longer in existence).

Renames the Joint Commission on Guayule Research and Commercialization the Joint Commission on Research and Development of Critical Agricultural Materials. Expands the Commission's membership to include representatives from the Departments of State and Defense, respectively, and from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to select the Commission Chairman from the Department of Agriculture (USDA) members. Broadens the Commission's scope of authority to seek technical advice.

States that the USDA shall be the lead agency in carrying out such Act.

Expands USDA and Department of Commerce latex research and development provision to include such other agricultural materials. Requires USDA research to: (1) include large-scale (10,000 acres or more) experimental planting to supply a developmental rubber processing facility; (2) accelerate present latex breeding and genetic activities; and (3) develop and construct such rubber processing facility.

Directs the Secretary to establish within USDA an Office of Critical Agricultural Materials.

Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative projects, including the extraction and processing of latex and critical agricultural materials produced in the United States, with Australia and Israel.

Broadens State contract and assistance authority of USDA and the Department of Commerce to include projects for all critical agricultural materials (presently only for latex). Broadens similar USDA and Commerce authority regarding regional, national, and international conferences.

Includes the Department of State within the scope of Federal agency coordination under such Act.

Permits sales of byproducts to other Federal agencies for testing purposes.

Extends reporting requirements through 1987.

Authorizes appropriations through FY 1988.

States that after FY 1988, activities under such Act shall be limited to critical agricultural materials other than native latex.

Who voted for it

Every House member of the 98th Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 327 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.

327 yea96 nay9 present or did not vote

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Economic left–right

More liberalMore conservative

Democrats who voted yea(254)

Rep. Parren MitchellD-MD-7
Rep. Sam GejdensonD-CT-2
Rep. Martin SaboD-MN-5
Rep. Mickey LelandD-TX-18
Rep. Julian DixonD-CA-28
Rep. Edward RoybalD-CA-25
Rep. Henry GonzálezD-TX-20
Rep. William GrayD-PA-2
Rep. William LehmanD-FL-17
Rep. Louis StokesD-OH-21
Rep. Robert GarciaD-NY-18
Rep. Gary AckermanD-NY-7
Rep. William FordD-MI-15
Rep. Gus SavageD-IL-2
Rep. Theodore WeissD-NY-17
Rep. Gus HawkinsD-CA-29
Rep. William CoyneD-PA-14
Rep. Ed MarkeyD-MA-7
Rep. Ed TownsD-NY-11
Rep. Joseph AddabboD-NY-6
Rep. David BoniorD-MI-12
Rep. Charlie RangelD-NY-16
Rep. James OberstarD-MN-8
Rep. Don EdwardsD-CA-10
Rep. Richard OttingerD-NY-20
Rep. Cardiss CollinsD-IL-7
Rep. Alan WheatD-MO-5
Rep. Katie HallD-IN-1
Rep. Major OwensD-NY-12
Rep. Howard BermanD-CA-26
Rep. Esteban TorresD-CA-34
Rep. James ShannonD-MA-5
Rep. Barbara BoxerD-CA-6
Rep. George CrockettD-MI-13
Rep. Bill ClayD-MO-1
Rep. Daniel AkakaD-HI-2
Rep. Thomas FogliettaD-PA-1
Rep. James HowardD-NJ-3
Rep. Michael LowryD-WA-7
Rep. Henry WaxmanD-CA-24
Rep. Peter RodinoD-NJ-10
Rep. Sidney YatesD-IL-9
Rep. John SeiberlingD-OH-14
Rep. Meldon LevineD-CA-27
Rep. Norman MinetaD-CA-13
Rep. Chuck SchumerD-NY-10
Rep. John MoakleyD-MA-9
Rep. Robert MatsuiD-CA-3
Rep. Pete StarkD-CA-9
Rep. Anthony CoelhoD-CA-15
Rep. George BrownD-CA-36
Rep. Robert KastenmeierD-WI-2
Rep. Geraldine FerraroD-NY-9
Rep. Harold FordD-TN-9
Rep. Steny HoyerD-MD-5
Rep. Dale KildeeD-MI-7
Rep. Bill AlexanderD-AR-1
Rep. Carl PerkinsD-KY-7
Rep. Dave ObeyD-WI-7
Rep. Bruce VentoD-MN-4
Rep. Victor FazioD-CA-4
Rep. Barney FrankD-MA-4
Rep. Barbara KennellyD-CT-1
Rep. Nicholas MavroulesD-MA-6
Rep. Thomas DowneyD-NY-2
Rep. Thomas FoleyD-WA-5
Rep. Tom LantosD-CA-11
Rep. Richard LehmanD-CA-18
Rep. Lane EvansD-IL-17
Rep. Robert BorskiD-PA-3
Rep. Clement ZablockiD-WI-4
Rep. Gerry StuddsD-MA-10
Rep. James ScheuerD-NY-8
Rep. Claude PepperD-FL-18
Rep. Frank HarrisonD-PA-11
Rep. Robert EdgarD-PA-7
Rep. Allan SwiftD-WA-2
Rep. Bernard DwyerD-NJ-6
Rep. Robert RoeD-NJ-8
Rep. John DingellD-MI-16
Rep. Henry NowakD-NY-33
Rep. Jerome TraxlerD-MI-8
Rep. Stephen SolarzD-NY-13
Rep. Bruce MorrisonD-CT-3
Rep. William RatchfordD-CT-5
Rep. Frank AnnunzioD-IL-11
Rep. Gillis LongD-LA-8
Rep. Dick GephardtD-MO-3
Rep. Charles PriceD-IL-21
Rep. Barbara MikulskiD-MD-3
Rep. Mary OakarD-OH-20
Rep. Howard WolpeD-MI-3
Rep. Charles RoseD-NC-7
Rep. Frank GuariniD-NJ-14
Rep. George MillerD-CA-7
Rep. Raymond KogovsekD-CO-3
Rep. Martin FrostD-TX-24
Rep. Lawrence SmithD-FL-16
Rep. Lindy BoggsD-LA-2
Rep. Anthony BeilensonD-CA-23
Rep. Morris UdallD-AZ-2
Rep. Dante FascellD-FL-19
Rep. Paul SimonD-IL-22
Rep. Edward BolandD-MA-2
Rep. James WrightD-TX-12
Rep. Jack BrooksD-TX-9
Rep. Fernand St. GermainD-RI-1
Rep. Sander LevinD-MI-17
Rep. Timothy WirthD-CO-2
Rep. Michael BarnesD-MD-8
Rep. Walter JonesD-NC-1
Rep. Joseph EarlyD-MA-3
Rep. Matthew McHughD-NY-28
Rep. Harley StaggersD-WV-2
Rep. John BryantD-TX-5
Rep. Brian DonnellyD-MA-11
Rep. Rick BoucherD-VA-9
Rep. Mario BiaggiD-NY-19
Rep. John MurthaD-PA-12
Rep. Don BonkerD-WA-3
Rep. William RichardsonD-NM-3
Rep. Jim MoodyD-WI-5
Rep. James FlorioD-NJ-1
Rep. Peter KostmayerD-PA-8
Rep. Bob CarrD-MI-6
Rep. William NatcherD-KY-2
Rep. Ron WydenD-OR-3
Rep. Solomon OrtizD-TX-27
Rep. Alan MollohanD-WV-1
Rep. Clarence LongD-MD-2
Rep. Kika de la GarzaD-TX-15
Rep. Leslie AspinD-WI-1
Rep. Joseph KolterD-PA-4
Rep. Harry ReidD-NV-1
Rep. Douglas BoscoD-CA-1
Rep. Robert TorricelliD-NJ-9
Rep. Norm DicksD-WA-6
Rep. Ronald ColemanD-TX-16
Rep. Stanley LundineD-NY-34
Rep. James McNultyD-AZ-5
Rep. Ed JonesD-TN-8
Rep. Daniel RostenkowskiD-IL-8
Rep. Jamie WhittenD-MS-1
Rep. Jim BatesD-CA-44
Rep. Francis McCloskeyD-IN-8
Rep. John WilliamsD-MT-1
Rep. Robert MrazekD-NY-3
Rep. Donald PeaseD-OH-13
Rep. Donald AlbostaD-MI-10
Rep. Dennis HertelD-MI-14
Rep. Joseph GaydosD-PA-20
Rep. Michael SynarD-OK-2
Rep. Robert YoungD-MO-2
Rep. James ClarkeD-NC-11
Rep. Leon PanettaD-CA-16
Rep. Nick RahallD-WV-4
Rep. Gerald SikorskiD-MN-6
Rep. John LaFalceD-NY-32
Rep. William BonerD-TN-5
Rep. James WeaverD-OR-4
Rep. Marcy KapturD-OH-9
Rep. Joseph MinishD-NJ-11
Rep. Tom HarkinD-IA-5
Rep. Jerry PattersonD-CA-38
Rep. Bill HefnerD-NC-8
Rep. Charles DowdyD-MS-4
Rep. Wyche FowlerD-GA-5
Rep. Robert WiseD-WV-3
Rep. Albert GoreD-TN-6
Rep. Edward FeighanD-OH-19
Rep. Douglas WalgrenD-PA-18
Rep. Tom BevillD-AL-4
Rep. Tom DaschleD-SD
Rep. Charles HatcherD-GA-2
Rep. Tony HallD-OH-3
Rep. Don FuquaD-FL-2
Rep. Martin RussoD-IL-3
Rep. Berkley BedellD-IA-6
Rep. Dennis EckartD-OH-11
Rep. Thomas LukenD-OH-1
Rep. Gus YatronD-PA-6
Rep. Ike SkeltonD-MO-4
Rep. Beryl AnthonyD-AR-4
Rep. Jake PickleD-TX-10
Rep. Neal SmithD-IA-4
Rep. Ronnie FlippoD-AL-5
Rep. Charles WilsonD-TX-2
Rep. Butler DerrickD-SC-3
Rep. Ike AndrewsD-NC-4
Rep. Patricia SchroederD-CO-1
Rep. Wes WatkinsD-OK-3
Rep. Les AuCoinD-OR-1
Rep. Charles BrittD-NC-6
Rep. William ChappellD-FL-4
Rep. Charles WhitleyD-NC-3
Rep. John SprattD-SC-5
Rep. Richard DurbinD-IL-20
Rep. Abraham KazenD-TX-23
Rep. Daniel MicaD-FL-14
Rep. Byron DorganD-ND
Rep. Jim CooperD-TN-4
Rep. Stephen NealD-NC-5
Rep. Romano MazzoliD-KY-3
Rep. Robin TallonD-SC-6
Rep. Royden DysonD-MD-1
Rep. Austin MurphyD-PA-22
Rep. Harold VolkmerD-MO-9
Rep. James RowlandD-GA-8
Rep. Glenn AndersonD-CA-32
Rep. Lee HamiltonD-IN-9
Rep. Timothy PennyD-MN-1
Rep. Norman D’AmoursD-NH-1
Rep. Robert ThomasD-GA-1
Rep. Samuel StrattonD-NY-23
Rep. Norman SisiskyD-VA-4
Rep. William LipinskiD-IL-5
Rep. Daniel GlickmanD-KS-4
Rep. David McCurdyD-OK-4
Rep. Philip SharpD-IN-2
Rep. Sam GibbonsD-FL-7
Rep. Douglas ApplegateD-OH-18
Rep. William HughesD-NJ-2
Rep. Thomas CarperD-DE
Rep. Kent HanceD-TX-19
Rep. Buddy MacKayD-FL-6
Rep. Michael AndrewsD-TX-25
Rep. Tim ValentineD-NC-2
Rep. James JonesD-OK-1
Rep. Ben ErdreichD-AL-6
Rep. James OlinD-VA-6
Rep. Charles BennettD-FL-3
Rep. Ed JenkinsD-GA-9
Rep. Jack HightowerD-TX-13
Rep. Elliott LevitasD-GA-4
Rep. Bill NelsonD-FL-11
Rep. Marilyn LloydD-TN-3
Rep. James SlatteryD-KS-2
Rep. Beverly ByronD-MD-6
Rep. Earl HuttoD-FL-1
Rep. Glenn EnglishD-OK-6
Rep. John BreauxD-LA-7
Rep. Carroll HubbardD-KY-1
Rep. Druie BarnardD-GA-10
Rep. Thomas HuckabyD-LA-5
Rep. William PatmanD-TX-14
Rep. Tommy VandergriffD-TX-26
Rep. Richard ShelbyD-AL-7
Rep. Billy TauzinD-LA-3
Rep. Richard RayD-GA-3
Rep. Ralph HallD-TX-4
Rep. Sam HallD-TX-1
Rep. James LeathD-TX-11
Rep. Sonny MontgomeryD-MS-3
Rep. Charlie StenholmD-TX-17

Republicans who voted yea(73)

Rep. Silvio ConteR-MA-1
Rep. Stewart McKinneyR-CT-4
Rep. Bill GreenR-NY-15
Rep. Frank HortonR-NY-29
Rep. Sherry BoehlertR-NY-25
Rep. Matthew RinaldoR-NJ-7
Rep. Jim JeffordsR-VT
Rep. Lyle WilliamsR-OH-17
Rep. Benjamin GilmanR-NY-22
Rep. Chris SmithR-NJ-4
Rep. Olympia SnoweR-ME-2
Rep. Joseph McDadeR-PA-10
Rep. Hamilton FishR-NY-21
Rep. Robert DavisR-MI-11
Rep. Jim LeachR-IA-1
Rep. John McKernanR-ME-1
Rep. Thomas RidgeR-PA-21
Rep. Marge RoukemaR-NJ-5
Rep. Joel PritchardR-WA-1
Rep. Jack EdwardsR-AL-1
Rep. George O’BrienR-IL-4
Rep. Carl PursellR-MI-2
Rep. Harold SawyerR-MI-5
Rep. John DuncanR-TN-2
Rep. Sidney MorrisonR-WA-4
Rep. Rodney ChandlerR-WA-8
Rep. Earl ColemanR-MO-6
Rep. John MyersR-IN-7
Rep. Norman LentR-NY-4
Rep. James QuillenR-TN-1
Rep. Guy MolinariR-NY-14
Rep. Don YoungR-AK
Rep. Steven GundersonR-WI-3
Rep. Edward MadiganR-IL-15
Rep. Frank WolfR-VA-10
Rep. Raymond McGrathR-NY-5
Rep. Thomas EvansR-IA-3
Rep. Elwood HillisR-IN-5
Rep. Guy Vander JagtR-MI-9
Rep. James CourterR-NJ-12
Rep. Arlan StangelandR-MN-7
Rep. Herbert BatemanR-VA-1
Rep. Manuel LujánR-NM-1
Rep. William CarneyR-NY-1
Rep. Ronald MarleneeR-MT-2
Rep. William FranklinR-MS-2
Rep. Bobbi FiedlerR-CA-21
Rep. Robert MichelR-IL-18
Rep. Jack KempR-NY-31
Rep. Edwin ZschauR-CA-12
Rep. Lynn MartinR-IL-16
Rep. Jerry LewisR-CA-35
Rep. William BroomfieldR-MI-18
Rep. Carroll CampbellR-SC-4
Rep. Donald RitterR-PA-15
Rep. Charles PashayanR-CA-17
Rep. Larry WinnR-KS-3
Rep. Robert LivingstonR-LA-1
Rep. Newton GingrichR-GA-6
Rep. Edwin ForsytheR-NJ-13
Rep. Joseph SkeenR-NM-2
Rep. Trent LottR-MS-5
Rep. Bill EmersonR-MO-8
Rep. John ErlenbornR-IL-13
Rep. Daniel CoatsR-IN-4
Rep. Thomas CorcoranR-IL-14
Rep. Eugene ChappieR-CA-2
Rep. Mark SiljanderR-MI-4
Rep. Thomas LoefflerR-TX-21
Rep. Judd GreggR-NH-2
Rep. Barber ConableR-NY-30
Rep. Alfred McCandlessR-CA-37
Rep. Pat RobertsR-KS-1

Data notes

The House’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 109 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.

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Committees

The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.

Agriculture Committee · House · markup by, referred to, reported bySubcommittee: Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee
Science, Space, and Technology Committee · House · markup by, referred to, reported bySubcommittee: Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee; Environment Subcommittee
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee · Senate · markup by, referred to, reported by

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Timeline

From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 24 actions.

May 16, 1984Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 98-284.
Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
May 4, 1984PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
May 1, 1984FloorFloor · Passed Senate without amendment by Voice Vote.
Jun 23, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Reported by Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
Jun 21, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Markup by Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
May 19, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
May 17, 1983FloorFloor · Passed House (Amended) by Yea-Nay Vote: 326 - 96 (Record Vote No: 117).House roll call 117
May 16, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Reported by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
May 12, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Reported by House Agriculture Committee
May 10, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Markup by House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
May 6, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Discharged from Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Discharged from Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
May 5, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Reported by Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Markup by Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
May 3, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Markup by House Agriculture Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Science, Research and Technology Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Environment Subcommittee of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
Apr 27, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Reported by Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Markup by Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Referred to Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee
Apr 26, 1983CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Agriculture Committee
CommitteeCommittee · Referred to House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
IntroducedIntroduced · Introduced in the House

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Official record

The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.