H.R. 5680: SWEETER Act
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H.R. 5680: SWEETER Act
117th Congress · introduced 2021-10-22 · Agriculture and Food · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2021-10-22 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
SWEETER Act
Plain summary
Saving Workers by Eliminating Economic Tampering and Ensuring Reliability Act or the SWEETER Act This bill eliminates certain Department of Agriculture (USDA) sugar subsidy programs. Specifically, the bill eliminates (1) the price support loan program available to processors of domestically grown sugarcane and sugar beets; (2) the sugar marketing allotments and tariff-rate quotas that limit the quantities of domestically produced sugar that processors may sell and the sugar that may be imported under lower tariff rates; and (3) the feedstock flexibility program for bioenergy producers, which operates to avoid loan forfeitures to the USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation by requiring USDA to purchase surplus sugar from domestic processors for resale to bioenergy producers.
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Officials and money
Sponsor: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] · 8 cosponsors
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Thomas Massie (R-KY), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Thomas P. Tiffany (R-WI), Andy Harris (R-MD), John Joyce (R-PA), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Ann Wagner (R-MO), Brian J. Mast (R-FL)
Sponsor's campaign money: Rep. Perry, Scott [R-PA-10] reported raising $6.8 million (2025–2026). Details. Shown for context only; it does not mean any donor supported this bill.
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr5680.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>
Record fed-us-cong117-hr5680 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117