Representative Scott DesJarlais

Committees:

• AGRICULTURE (Subs: Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture & Horticulture; Livestock, Dairy & Poultry); 

• ARMED SERVICES (Subs Seapower & Projection Forces; Strategic Forces (Chair)) 

Global Action Record:

• 2013/06/19 - HR 1947 Farm Bill Royce Amdt. - failed - allowed for aid to purchase "local" food aid instead of shipping from U.S. farms - Nay

• 2016/03/02 - HR 3706 - Reach Every Mother and Child Act - cosponsor

• 2016/06/08 – HR 4481 – Education for All Act - cosponsor

• 2017/09/07 - HR 601 READ + Harvey Relief + Continuing Resolution + raising debt limit - Nay (signed into law by President Trump)

• 2022/10/19 - H.R.4693 - Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 (unanimous, President Biden signed into law) 

• 2024/12/23 - READ Act Reauthorization Act signed into law within H.R.5009 the  National Defense Authorization Act 

U.S. Action Record:

• 2014//01/29 - HR 2642 - Agriculture Act of 2014 = Farm Bill (cuts SNAP $8.6b) - Nay

• 2014/07/25 - HR 4935 - Child Tax Credit Improvement Act (extends CTC to higher-incomes families but fails to address expiring benefits to low-income families) - Not Voting

• 2015/12/17 - HR 2029 - Omnibus tax bill including permanent extension or critical EITC/CTC provisions - Nay

• 2018/12/12 - HR 2 Farm Bill - early versions would have cut SNAP for people out of work - Yea, Yea, Yea 

• HR 1628 - American Health Care Act of 2017 - Yea

• 2020/12/21 - HR 133 FY21 + Coronavirus Relief - Nay

• 2024/01/31 - HR 7024 - Tax Relief for American Families and Workers (CTC) - Nay

• 2025/07/04 - H.R.1 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Reconciliation bill) signed into law Senate 51-50 & House 218-214 - Yea