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America Grows Act of 2021

Introduced: April 26, 2021 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Apr 26, 2021
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S2200-2201)
Apr 26, 2021
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

America Grows Act of 2021

This bill permanently funds several agencies that perform agriculture research.

The bill provides specified funding for the following agencies within the Department of Agriculture:

  • the Agricultural Research Service,
  • the Economic Research Service,
  • the National Agricultural Statistics Service, and
  • the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

The bill exempts the funding from sequestration, which is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.

It also exempts the budgetary effects of the funding from the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (PAYGO) and the Senate PAYGO rule.

What's happening now April 26, 2021

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S2200-2201)

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