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AttemptedAgriculture / Farm Bill

Forge a bipartisan farm bill from the House and Senate frameworks and pass it into law before the 118th Congress ends.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

The promise was to forge a bipartisan farm bill from the House and Senate frameworks and pass it into law before the 118th Congress ended (Jan 3, 2025). That deliverable was not achieved. All four cited sources were reachable and support the ATTEMPTED rating. (1) Georgia Farm Bureau confirms verbatim that Congress passed only an extension ("the farm bill extension gives Congress until Sept. 30, 2025, to pass a new farm bill") rather than a new bill. (2) The PRIMARY Senate Agriculture Committee release (Boozman/Thompson, Dec 14 2024) verifies verbatim that Boozman led colleagues "in raising the concerns of the farm community in meetings, in hearings, on the House and Senate floors" — documenting genuine, active effort. (3) Farm Policy News verifies that Boozman rejected Stabenow's "11th hour partisan proposal" as "insulting," confirming the bipartisan effort collapsed into competing partisan frameworks and a pivot to a one-year extension. (4) Iowa State CALT confirms (substance verified; the fetch paraphrased rather than reproducing the exact sentence) that the American Relief Act of 2025 extended the 2018 Farm Bill through Sept 30, 2025, with $10B economic assistance and $20B disaster aid — ad hoc relief, not the promised farm bill. ATTEMPTED is correctly applied: Boozman was demonstrably active (so not IGNORED/ABSTAINED), but no part of a new bipartisan farm bill became law (so not PARTIAL — an extension and ad hoc aid are not the promised deliverable). The rating neither overstates nor understates the evidence.

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