10. Department of Agriculture · Notable · Needs Congress
Work with Congress to abolish marketing orders and checkoff programs
Printed page 306 10. Department of Agriculture
“Work with Congress to eliminate marketing orders and checkoff programs. These programs should be eliminated, and if industry actors want to collaborate, they should do so through private means, not using the government to compel cooperation.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill in the 119th Congress would abolish marketing orders or checkoff programs, and the administration has not asked for one. A bill-title search over the Corpus returns exactly one checkoff bill, H.R. 7851, the Checkoff Transparency Act (referred to House Agriculture 2026-03-05), which is a disclosure measure, and one marketing-order bill, H.R. 8152 (referred 2026-03-27), which would change the treatment of dates for processing. The House-passed farm bill goes the other way: Sec. 10101 of H.R. 7567 *extends* section 8e of the Agricultural Adjustment Act to mandarin oranges and almonds and strikes the carve-out for dates for processing. Cluster I (marketing orders and checkoff programs) in `docs/research/ch-10.md`, round 3 ticket 09 batch 09c, records the queries.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- #791 is the executive twin and is partial; the difference is that AMS can terminate an order administratively where Congress has done nothing.
- Statutory abolition would have to strike the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 and the Commodity Promotion, Research, and Information Act of 1996; neither appears in any bill title or in the enrolled text of P.L. 119-21.
- Action
- abolish
- Object
- marketing orders and checkoff programs
- ID
- 793