Congress mandates U.S.-grown flowers in federal buildings
H.R. 4784 — Don Young American Grown Act · Filed by Salud Carbajal (D-CA) · 9 cosponsors · Introduced Jul 29, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill requires that cut flowers and cut greens displayed in official public areas of the White House, State Department, and Department of Defense buildings must be grown in the United States (including territories and tribal lands). Personal displays by federal employees are exempt. The rule takes effect one year after enactment.
Why we flagged it
The bill is a straightforward procurement restriction requiring federal buildings to source decorative plants domestically. It is a narrow, targeted buy-American provision with no hidden mechanisms or complex cross-references.
What the text implies
- The one-year implementation window may create temporary supply-chain disruption if federal buildings currently rely on foreign suppliers and domestic growers cannot immediately scale production.
- The exemption for personal employee displays creates a loophole that could be exploited to circumvent the mandate by recharacterizing official displays as personal.
- Named after Don Young (deceased Alaska congressman), the bill is a memorial tribute rather than a response to demonstrated federal procurement problems.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Citizens benefit modestly from supporting domestic agriculture and potentially lower environmental costs from reduced shipping, but the practical impact is minimal—federal building floral displays represent a negligible portion of consumer spending or public welfare. The bill is largely symbolic rather than substantive.
Who stands to gain
- domestic cut flower growers
- domestic foliage/greenery producers
- U.S. agricultural suppliers
Named in the bill
Executive Office of the President, Department of State, Department of Defense, federally recognized Indian Tribes, U.S. territories and possessions
Where it stands
9 cosponsors: 6 Republicans, 3 Democrats.
- Jul 29, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 29, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Armed Services and House Committee on Foreign Affairs · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign…”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. Those filings disclosed $120,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 12 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Salud Carbajal, the sponsor, reported $631,982 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- The Cook Group Inc. — $120,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 13, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (1,193 characters) on Aug 11, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 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 Jun 2026 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 13, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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