H.R. 662: Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023
Bill · 118th Congress (2023–2024). Failed Senate, 1 Nov 2023. Introduced 31 Jan 2023.
Official title: To amend the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to improve disaster relief funding for agricultural producers, and for other purposes.
Vote results
- House, 12 Jun 2023: agreed to by voice vote; the record lists no member’s position. In the record’s words: “Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2804)”
- Senate, 1 Nov 2023: Bill Defeated, 43 Yea, 53 Nay, 0 Present, 4 Not voting. The Senate’s roll call
- President: Not presented to the President.
How each member voted
Senate
Yea (43): Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Mike Crapo (R-ID); Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roger F. Wicker (R-MS); Susan M. Collins (R-ME); Jerry Moran (R-KS); John Thune (R-SD); Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV); John Boozman (R-AR); John Cornyn (R-TX); Lisa Murkowski (R-AK); Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); John Barrasso (R-WY); Bill Cassidy (R-LA); James E. Risch (R-ID); John Hoeven (R-ND); Ron Johnson (R-WI); James Lankford (R-OK); Rand Paul (R-KY); Marco Rubio (R-FL); Todd Young (R-IN); Tom Cotton (R-AR); Kevin Cramer (R-ND); Ted Cruz (R-TX); Steve Daines (R-MT); Deb Fischer (R-NE); Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY); Markwayne Mullin (R-OK); Mike Rounds (R-SD); Dan Sullivan (R-AK); Ted Budd (R-NC); John Kennedy (R-LA); Roger Marshall (R-KS); Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS); Mike Braun (R-IN); Josh Hawley (R-MO); Mitt Romney (R-UT); Rick Scott (R-FL); Bill Hagerty (R-TN); Tommy Tuberville (R-AL); Katie Boyd Britt (R-AL); Eric Schmitt (R-MO); J.D. Vance (R-OH).
Nay (53): Chuck Grassley (R-IA); Edward J. Markey (D-MA); Charles E. Schumer (D-NY); Ron Wyden (D-OR); Richard J. Durbin (D-IL); Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD); Thomas R. Carper (D-DE); Jack Reed (D-RI); Bernard Sanders (I-VT); Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Patty Murray (D-WA); Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Tammy Baldwin (D-WI); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D-PA); Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY); Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI); Amy Klobuchar (D-MN); Christopher Murphy (D-CT); Jon Tester (D-MT); Peter Welch (D-VT); Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI); Martin Heinrich (D-NM); Ben Ray Luján (D-NM); Jeff Merkley (D-OR); Gary C. Peters (D-MI); Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Mark R. Warner (D-VA); Michael F. Bennet (D-CO); Christopher A. Coons (D-DE); Richard Blumenthal (D-CT); Brian Schatz (D-HI); Tammy Duckworth (D-IL); Tim Kaine (D-VA); Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME); Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ); Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Cory A. Booker (D-NJ); Joni Ernst (R-IA); Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV); Margaret Wood Hassan (D-NH); Jacky Rosen (D-NV); Tina Smith (D-MN); Mark Kelly (D-AZ); John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO); Jon Ossoff (D-GA); Alex Padilla (D-CA); Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA); John Fetterman (D-PA); Pete Ricketts (R-NE); Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Laphonza R. Butler (D-CA).
Not voting (4): Joe Manchin, III (I-WV); Mike Lee (R-UT); Tim Scott (R-SC); Thom Tillis (R-NC).
Not in office (5): Adam B. Schiff (D-CA); Andy Kim (D-NJ); Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Ben Sasse (R-NE); George S. Helmy (D-NJ).
House
Agreed to by voice vote: the record lists no member’s position.
Summary
Main subject: Amends the agricultural disaster relief funding in the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 to allow the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance in the form of block grants to eligible States and territories. Sec. 2
Its core areas: Block grant option for agricultural disaster relief assistance under the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023.
Unexpected Items: 0 provisions
What it does
- Sec. 2: Amends Title I of the Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023 (division N of Public Law 117–328) under the Department of Agriculture heading "Office of the Secretary" under "Processing, Research and Marketing."
- Sec. 2: Adds a provision stating that the Secretary of Agriculture may provide assistance for losses described under that heading in the form of block grants to eligible States and territories.
- Sec. 3: Designates the Act and its amendments as an emergency requirement under section 4(g) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010.
- Sec. 3: Designates the Act as an emergency requirement in the Senate under section 4001(a)(1) of S. Con. Res. 14 (117th Congress), the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2022.
- Sec. 1: Provides that the Act may be cited as the "Block Grant Assistance Act of 2023".
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