Review - S 4690 Introduced – FY 2025 ARD Spending

Last month, Sen Heinrich (D,NM) introduce S 4690, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies spending bill. The Senate Appropriations Committee published their Report for the legislation. The bill includes one cybersecurity mention, and the Report includes one cybersecurity discussion.

The House version of this bill is HR 9027. The House Appropriations Committee ordered the bill reported favorably, but no other action has been taken in the House.

Moving Forward

Because of constitutional issues, the Senate waits for the House to pass spending bills. When the bill is subsequently considered by the Senate, one of the first actions taken is the offering of an amendment in the form of a substitute which substitutes the language from the related Senate bill for the language of the House bill. From there, the Senate amends and votes on the revised Senate language.

Unfortunately, it looks like the House is not going to consider HR 9027 this year. That means that this bill is effectively dead-on arrival through no fault or design of the Senate.

 

For more information on the cybersecurity provision in the bill and in the report, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/s-4690-introduced - subscription required.

Review - HR 9027 Introduced – FY 2025 ARD Spending

Review - HR 9027 Introduced – FY 2025 ARD Spending

Last month, Rep Harris (R,MD) introduced HR 9027, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025. The House Appropriations Committee published their Report on the bill. The bill contains one cybersecurity related provision. The Report contains two cybersecurity related discussions. There are no chemical safety issues mentioned in either document.

Moving Forward

The Republican leadership failed to bring this bill to the floor before their early departure on the Summer Recess. There was never much chance that this bill would pass in the House because of its extremely partisan nature (see pages 234-6 of the Report for the Democrats concerns about the bill). The only question would be how many Nay votes would be cast by Republican moderates.

 

For more details about the cybersecurity provisions in the bill and discussions in the Report, and a longer ‘Moving Forward’ commentary, see my article at CFSN Detailed Analysis - https://patrickcoyle.substack.com/p/hr-9027-introduced - subscription required.

Bills Introduced – 7-12-24

Yesterday, neither the House nor the Senate were in session, but three bills were introduced. I will be covering all three bills:

HR 9027 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 Harris, Andy [Rep.-R-MD-1]

HR 9028 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 Womack, Steve [Rep.-R-AR-3] 

HR 9029 Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025 Aderholt, Robert B. [Rep.-R-AL-4]