Advance cattle price transparency and discovery legislation so cattle feeders receive fair prices for beef.

Chuck Grassley · Iowa · Republican

policy impact 0.75 specificity 0.86 extraction confidence 97%

Occurrences

Bipartisan cattle price transparency and discovery legislation so cattle feeders get a fair price for their beef

Grassley commits to pursuing bipartisan cattle market price transparency and discovery legislation.

Issues - Senator Chuck Grassley
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Bipartisan cattle price transparency and discovery legislation so cattle feeders get a fair price for their beef

Grassley pledges to pursue bipartisan cattle price transparency and discovery legislation to help cattle feeders get fair prices.

Grassley Announces He’s Running for Re-Election to Continue Serving Iowans - Senator Chuck Grassley
campaign · press_release · model gpt-5.5

Bipartisan cattle price transparency and discovery legislation so cattle feeders get a fair price for their beef

Grassley lists advancing bipartisan cattle price transparency and discovery legislation as future work.

Chuck Grassley is THE Inflation Fighter - Senator Chuck Grassley
campaign · press_release · model gpt-5.5

Evidence

Reported Senate text listed Grassley among introducers and included approved pricing mechanisms, a cattle contract library, mandatory minimums, and packer penalties. Congress.gov showed the latest action as placement on the Senate Legislative Calendar and the bill status as Introduced.

Grassley took concrete legislative action and the 2022 bill advanced out of committee to the Senate calendar, but it did not pass both chambers or become law.

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Congress.gov: S.4030 - Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2022 Text
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Grassley's office said he participated in markup on the Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, which he helped introduce, and that the bill advanced in committee with bipartisan support.

This supports that Grassley advanced the legislation through committee, a meaningful step short of enactment.

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Grassley-Led Bills Making Cattle Market Improvements Pass Ag Committee
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Congress.gov lists Sen. Grassley as an original cosponsor of S.228 on February 2, 2023. The same bill record shows the latest action was read twice and referred to the Senate Agriculture Committee, with status Introduced.

Grassley reintroduced or joined the renewed 2023 bill in the term after the 2022 election, but the bill did not advance beyond referral in the 118th Congress.

never same_term A for effort

Congress.gov: S.228 - Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act of 2023 Cosponsors
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Section 779 appropriated $1,000,000 for a Cattle Contracts Library pilot program for AMS to develop and maintain within Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.

A transparency component related to the promise became law through the 2022 appropriations act, but this did not enact the broader Grassley-Fischer price discovery bill or regional mandatory minimums.

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Public Law 117-103 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, Section 779
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USDA announced it launched the pilot Cattle Contracts Library, created under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, to increase market transparency for cattle producers and disclose contract terms, conditions, and volumes.

The enacted contract-library piece was implemented in 2023, providing partial transparency delivery, while the broader price discovery legislation remained unenacted.

partial same_term

USDA Continues Laying Foundation for More and Better Markets with Launch of Pilot Cattle Contracts Library
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Grassley materially advanced cattle market transparency and price discovery legislation by helping introduce the 2022 Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act, participating in markup, and getting it through committee to the Senate calendar. He also joined the 2023 reintroduction. However, the broader promised legislation, including mandatory price discovery mechanisms, did not become law. A related cattle contracts library transparency component was enacted through the 2022 appropriations law and USDA launched the pilot in January 2023, which provides partial fulfillment of the transparency goal during the relevant federal term context but not full delivery of the promised broader legislation.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%

partial same_term A for effort

The broad Cattle Price Discovery and Transparency Act was not enacted: S.4030 advanced out of Senate Agriculture in 2022 but did not become law, and S.228 in the 118th Congress was only referred to committee on February 2, 2023 and remained introduced. A meaningful transparency component was delivered when Public Law 117-103 authorized a Cattle Contracts Library pilot and USDA launched it on January 31, 2023 to disclose contract terms and volumes. Because the permanent broader price-discovery bill, regional mandatory minimums, and fair-price outcome were not delivered, this is partial rather than delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%