(Washington D.C.) Now that the election is over, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley discussed his priorities in his latest capitol hill update with reporters from KLMJ Radio and Pocahontas Record Democrat.
Senator Grassley says Congress did not follow the advice of economists who warned about spending too much money two years ago.
The senator says he will be working on the Cattle Bill requiring the Secretary of Agriculture to establish 5-7 regions encompassing the entire continental U.S. and then establish minimum levels of fed cattle purchases made through approved pricing mechanisms. Establish a maximum penalty for covered packers of $90,000 for mandatory minimum violations. The bill also includes provisions to create a publicly available library of marketing contracts, mandating boxed beef reporting to ensure transparency, expedite the reporting of cattle carcass weights, and require a packer to report the number of cattle scheduled to be delivered for slaughter each day for the next 14 days.
