[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2219 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2219

To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to repeal the forfeiture rule for 
   peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program, 
prohibit the use of Federal funds for certain activities, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 24, 2021

  Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Lee) introduced the following 
      bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                  Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Agricultural Act of 2014 to repeal the forfeiture rule for 
   peanuts under the nonrecourse marketing assistance loan program, 
prohibit the use of Federal funds for certain activities, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Removing Excessive Dollars to Uproot 
and Cut Expensive Government Waste Act'' or the ``REDUCE Government 
Waste Act''.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF SPECIAL RULE FOR PEANUTS.

    Section 1201 of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9031) is 
amended by striking subsection (e).

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF BEERBOTS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 
used for the development of a beerbot or other robot bartender.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INSECT-BASED 
              FOODS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no Federal funds may be 
used for the development of insect-based foods for human consumption, 
including cricket farming and taste-testing of insect-based foods.
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