U.S. Senate in bipartisan vote blocks Biden rule to reopen Paraguayan beef imports
Source: Nebraska Examiner
By: Jacob Fischler - March 21, 2024 7:16 pm
The U.S. Senate easily passed a resolution Thursday to repeal a Biden administration rule allowing for beef to be imported from Paraguay.
The measure, introduced by Democrat Jon Tester of Montana and Republican Mike Rounds of South Dakota, passed on a bipartisan 70-25 vote. The resolution was made under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress to undo executive branch rules within a certain timeframe.
The resolution targets a final rule the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service issued in November that allowed for importation of Paraguayan beef that met certain conditions, including that foot-and-mouth disease had not been diagnosed in the region for at least a year.
Until then, the U.S. had not allowed Paraguayan beef imports since 1997.
Cattle at Pete and Meagan Lannan’s Barney Creek Livestock operation, based on the Jordan Ranch in Livingston, Montana, on May 23, 2022. (Preston Keres/USDA-FPAC) photo by
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