Celebrating the 60th anniversary of Medicaid.
- Last Action
- 7/29/2025
Actions
- 2025-02-28Referred to the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture.
- 2025-01-22Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2025-01-22Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- 2025-01-22Introduced in House
- 2025-01-22Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2025-01-22 (00)
Foreign Adversary Risk Management Act or the FARM Act
This bill places the Secretary of Agriculture on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). It also requires CFIUS to review any investment that could result in foreign control of any U.S. agricultural business.
Further, the bill includes agricultural systems and supply chains in the definitions of critical infrastructure and critical technologies for the purposes of reviewing such investments.
The Department of Agriculture and the Government Accountability Office must each annually analyze and report on foreign influence in the U.S. agricultural industry.
Cosponsors (20)
- Pete Sessions (R-TX)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX)
- James Moylan (R-GU)
- Ryan Zinke (R-MT)
- Ron Estes (R-KS)
- Brad Finstad (R-MN)
- Ashley Hinson (R-IA)
- Mary Miller (R-IL)
- Jim Costa (D-CA)
- Pat Fallon (R-TX)
- Mark Messmer (R-IN)
- John Rose (R-TN)
- Randy Weber (R-TX)
- Dusty Johnson (R-SD)
- Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
- Eric Crawford (R-AR)
- Keith Self (R-TX)
- Brian Babin (R-TX)
- Michael Guest (R-MS)
Subjects
- Congressional oversight
- Federal officials
- Government studies and investigations
- Supply chain
- U.S. and foreign investments
Sourced from Congress.gov (public domain).
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