S 125
116th Congress
Senate
Agriculture and Food
Advanced technology and technological innovations
Agricultural marketing and promotion
Agricultural practices and innovations
Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit
Agricultural research
Alcoholic beverages
Debt collection
Insects
Research administration and funding
REDUCE Government Waste Act
Introduced: January 15, 2019
Introduced by:
Cortez Masto, Catherine
Democratic
· Nevada
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Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 15, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan 15, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act or the REDUCE Government Waste Act
This bill repeals the rules for peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program administered by the Department of Agriculture (USDA). (Under a nonrecourse marketing assistance loan, a farmer pledges a commodity as collateral and may deliver the pledged collateral to USDA to repay the loan.)
The bill also prohibits federal funds from being used for the development of (1) a beerbot or other robot bartender; or (2) insect-based foods for human consumption, including cricket farming and taste-testing of insect-based foods.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1