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U.S. House passes bill to protect agriculture from foreign entities

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill that would safeguard the country’s agriculture sector from potential threats posed by foreign entities.

Congressman Frank Lucas, from Oklahoma, says the legislation would increase security of foreign involvement in U.S. farmland purchases.

“The bill focuses the government’s limited resources on foreign adversaries People’s Republic of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea,” he says. “It’s not about closing off the United States from the rest of the world.”

The bill includes language that would add the Secretary of Agriculture to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to offer input. 

“Secretary Vilsack discussed the implications of a permanent placement of the USDA Secretary on CFIUS,” he says.

Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Mike Braun (R-IN) have introduced companion bill in the Senate.

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