Will reauthorize USDA Rural Development business and grant programs.

Steve Womack · Arkansas · Republican

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Occurrences

Reauthorizing crucial USDA Rural Development business and grant programs.

Womack supported legislation reauthorizing USDA Rural Development business and grant programs.

Womack Supports Certainty and Commonsense Solutions for American Farmers | U.S. Congressman Steve Womack
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Evidence

The Clerk records H.R. 8 as passed on Jan. 1, 2013; Steve Womack, Republican of Arkansas, voted Aye.

Womack voted for the enacted American Taxpayer Relief Act, which included a one-year extension of agricultural programs after the 2008 farm bill expired.

partial same_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 659, H.R. 8
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GovInfo lists Title VII as Extension of Agricultural Programs and Sec. 701 as a one-year extension of agricultural programs.

The law Womack supported extended farm-bill agricultural authorities for one year, a partial same-term reauthorization rather than a full farm bill.

partial same_term

Public Law 112-240, American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012
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The Clerk records H.R. 2642, Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act, as passed; Womack voted Yea.

Womack voted for the House farm-bill vehicle that became the Agricultural Act of 2014, showing concrete support for later-term reauthorization.

delivered later_term A for effort

Office of the Clerk, U.S. House Roll Call 353, H.R. 2642
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The Act continued USDA programs through FY2018 and Title VI included Rural Development, Rural Business Development Grants, and Rural Cooperative Development Grants.

The 2014 farm bill reauthorized USDA Rural Development business and grant programs through FY2018, delivering the commitment in a later House term.

delivered later_term

Public Law 113-79, Agricultural Act of 2014, Section 6104
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The Clerk records H.R. 2 conference report as passed, 369-47; Steve Womack voted Yea.

Womack again voted for a final farm-bill conference report reauthorizing agriculture and rural development programs.

delivered later_term A for effort

House Roll Call 434, H.R. 2 Conference Report
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The Act continued USDA programs through FY2023; Sec. 6411 changed Rural Business Development Grants authority from 2018 to 2023.

The 2018 farm bill renewed USDA Rural Development business and grant authorities, including rural business development and cooperative development grants, through FY2023.

delivered later_term

Public Law 115-334, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, Section 6201
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Assessments

delivered later_term

Womack supported a same-term one-year extension of agricultural authorities in the American Taxpayer Relief Act, but the fuller promised reauthorization of USDA Rural Development business and grant programs occurred later through the 2014 farm bill, which reauthorized relevant rural business and grant authorities through FY2018. He was still serving in the House and voted for the farm-bill vehicle that became law, giving him material federal legislative credit. Later 2018 reauthorization further confirms the program outcome, but the promise was already delivered in a later House term.

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