US Congress Senate Bill 125 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 15 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-01-15 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Pending: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, And Forestry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

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.

REDUCE Government Waste Act Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto [D-NV]

Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-01-15	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/125/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s125/BILLS-116s125is.pdf