The subcommittee appears to be keeping the U.S. Department ofAgriculture (USDA) on track to maintain its budget targets and toassure that surplus money remains for Social Security reform andtax cuts.
Sens. Cotton, Ernst Introduce Bill to Prevent Agricultural Tech Theft by Chinese Regime
A pair of Republican senators on Wednesday introduced legislation that seeks to establish an office of intelligence within the Agriculture Department to keep U.S. agricultural innovations from falling into the hands of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other “foreign threats.”
The bill (pdf), named the Agricultural Intelligence Measures (AIM) Act of 2021 (S.4768), was introduced by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Joni Ernst (R-Iowa). It seeks to establish an office within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) by amending the Department of Agriculture Reorganization Act of 1994.