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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) today issued the following statements after the U.S. House of Representatives passed their Ocean Shipping Reform Act (S. 3580).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday to improve oversight of ocean shipping, which supporters say will help curb inflation and ease export backlogs. The Ocean Shipping Reform Act was sponsored by South Dakota Senator John Thune and Congressman Dusty Johnson.
The bill passed 369-42 and will head to the White House for President Joe Biden’s signature. Biden said in a statement he looked forward to signing it into law.
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The U.S. House Agriculture Committee on May 17 unanimously passed a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) that would make improvements to the pricing of cattle in America.
“Ranchers need more shackle space,” Rep. Johnson said. “The market is too concentrated and South Dakota cattle producers deserve more options on where to sell their product.”
Washington, D.C. – Today, in the U.S. House Agriculture Committee, legislation introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) passed unanimously out of the committee.
Washington, D.C. – This week, U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the bipartisan Strengthening the Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Act, which would create a dedicated task force at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to evaluate the reliability of the American food supply chain and provide recommendations to Congress to prevent future supply chain issues.
Between 85-90% of the beef processing in this country is done at just 30 plants – in fact, 12 plants do more than half of all the beef processing. Having such a large percentage of meat packing done at such a small number of plants is a vulnerability in our markets. We’ve experienced many “black swan” events in the past couple years—from the Holcomb fire, COVID-19, and weather, among others. This market concentration poses a significant risk to food security in our nation.
The Bipartisan group of 29 Members argued that biofuels increase U.S. energy independence and decrease inflationary pressures at the pump
“Senate passage gets us one step closer to seeing the Garamendi-Johnson Ocean Shipping Reform Act signed into law”
Washington, D.C. – Today, Reps. Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Jodey Arrington (R-TX), Jim Costa (D-CA), Ron Kind (D-WI), and Randy Feenstra (R-IA) led a bipartisan group of 87 Members of Congress in a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging them to make agriculture a priority in the upcoming Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (Framework).