This Week in CongressJun 22nd - 28th

A bill to reduce trawl gear impacts on bycatch and seafloor habitat in the Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska, to establish gear performance standards, seafloor contact detection, and salmon excluder requirements, to improve Council transparency and participation, to prioritize ecosystem analyses, to modernize electronic monitoring, to prohibit unsustainable foreign seafood imports, and to establish a Bycatch Mitigation and Habitat Protection Assistance Fund.

Introduced in Senate

A bill to establish the National Fab Lab Network, a nonprofit organization consisting of a national network of local digital fabrication facilities providing universal access to advanced manufacturing tools for workforce development, STEM education, developing inventions, creating businesses, producing personalized products, mitigating risks, and for other purposes.

Introduced in Senate

A bill to preserve patient access to health care providers and prescription drug coverage under Medicare and individual market plans.

Introduced in Senate

A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture, in coordination with the Director of the Bureau of the Census, to establish an interagency food security measurement program, and for other purposes.

Introduced in Senate

A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to clarify land eligible for enrollment in the conservation reserve program.

Introduced in Senate