Two agencies team up on farm and power research.
H.R. 1326 — DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act · Filed by Frank Lucas (R-OK) · 2 cosponsors · Introduced Feb 13, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The Department of Power and the Department of Farm must work together on research. They will study AI for crops, fuel from plants, power grids, wildfires, and pollution. The two must write a deal and pick projects based on quality. They must tell Congress what they learned within two years.
Who it affects
Schools, nonprofits, labs, and companies can apply for research money. Farmers and rural areas may get new farm tools and power projects.
One thing to notice
The bill lets the two agencies take money from private companies to pay for research. This could shape what research gets done.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
2 cosponsors: 1 Democrats, 1 Republicans.
- Feb 13, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Feb 13, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Agriculture and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture…”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection”
- Mar 24, 2025 — Floor vote scheduled · Congress.gov: “Mr. Babin moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $489,417 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 50 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Frank Lucas, who sponsored the bill, received $712,880 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Society of Civil Engineers — $489,417 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- deal — A written plan for how two groups will work together.
- based on quality — Chosen because the work is good, not for other reasons.
- fuel from plants — Power made from crops or farm waste instead of oil.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (5,698 characters) on Jul 25, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,358 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 17, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-19.
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