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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1986

CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS—JUNE 27, 1986

100 STAT. 4371

should be maintained at a level sufficient to carry out fully the vital services it is providing to rural America during a time of extreme stress. It is further assumed that this funding will be used especially to support and strengthen such core programs as 4-H Youth Development, Home Economics and Family Living, Natural Resources and Community Development, and services that provide agricultural financial analysis and farm management instruction. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL INVESTMENT REFORM

SEC. 11. It is the sense of the Congress that the use of foreign aid funds for financing the foreign production for export use of agricultural commodities already in surplus on world markets is a counterproductive use of American tax dollars as well as devastating to the American farmer who loses export markets from the unfairly subsidized competition. SOCIAL SECURITY COLAS

SEC. 12. It is the sense of the Congress that legislation should ba enacted to provide that social security cost-of-living adjustments, and COLAs in other programs linked to those adjustments, will be paid at the actual rate of inflation, whether it is above or below 3 percent. SECTION 302 (a) ALLOCATIONS

SEC. 13. The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the House of Representatives may file, not later than July 9, 1986, a report in the House containing the allocations required to be made pursuant to section 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. 2 USC 633. The report shall be printed as, and considered to be, a report of the Committee on the Budget and such allocations made in that report shall be considered to be the allocations required to be in the joint explanatory statement accompanying this resolution. Agreed to June 27, 1986. BERLIN—CONTINUED U.S. COMMITMENT AND COMMENDATION ON FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY July is, 1986 CELEBRATION OF J E S S E OWENS' 1936 OLYMPIC [H. Con. Res. 325] GAMES VICTORIES Whereas the people of Berlin will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Jesse Owens' epochal winning of four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games on August 14 and 15, 1986; Whereas the people of the United States have long maintained a unique and special relationship with the government and people of Berlin; Whereas Jesse Owens represented himself, the United States, and the principles of freedom, equality, and human dignity so nobly and resolutely during the 1936 Oljnnpic games; Whereas Jesse Owens represented the United States internationaly as the American "Ambassador of Sports", in a State Department tour of South Asia, as personal representative of President Eisenhower to the 1956 Olympic games in Australia, and as director of the United States Olympic Committee; and