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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 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Jan 15, 2019
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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 January 15, 2019

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

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Lee, Mike
Utah · Jan 15, 2019
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 125: REDUCE Government Waste Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-125/
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"S. 125: REDUCE Government Waste Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-125/.
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