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S 4347 119th Congress Senate Agriculture and Food

America Grows Act of 2026

Introduced: April 20, 2026 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Apr 20, 2026
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1841-1842)
Apr 20, 2026
Introduced in Senate
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America Grows Act of 2026

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 20, 2026

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text: CR S1841-1842)

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4347: America Grows Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-4347/
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