Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act

Introduced Feb 14, 2025Latest action Mar 20, 2025Agriculture and Food

Plain-English summary

Meat and Poultry Special Investigator Act This bill establishes the Office of the Special Investigator for Competition Matters within the Agricultural Marketing Service's Packers and Stockyards Division. Specifically, the office must use all available tools (e. g. , subpoenas) to investigate and prosecute violations of the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 (P&S Act).

Deterministically condensed from the official CRS summary; verify details in the official record.

People and recorded decisions

Sponsors, Cosponsors & House Votes

Michael Lawler

Cosponsor · Republican · NY

Josh Gottheimer

Sponsor · Democratic · NJ

Yevgeny 'Eugene' Vindman

Cosponsor · Democratic · VA

No linked House roll-call vote is available yet. Senate votes are not currently synchronized.

Official Subjects

Agriculture and Food

Sources & text

Official Congress.gov record ↗Introduced in House ↗Introduced in House ↗Introduced in House ↗

Congress.gov data last updated Aug 28, 2026. Automated summaries preserve a source version and generation timestamp; human edits are explicitly recorded.