Prepared for the USDA congressional relations team by Quorum

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Every Question From the Hill. Answered Faster.

Quorum brings the farm bill, appropriations, nominations, and oversight into one workspace, connecting the members and staff behind them with AI agents that handle the first pass. This allows your congressional relations team to spend less time pulling together updates and more time engaging with the Hill.

Quincy, Quorum's AI assistant, at the center of a workspace that connects government affairs data

Your agenda, in context

The department's agenda moved on every front this year.

Recent records from Congress on the bills and nominations that reach USDA.

Federal: House

The farm bill passed the House.

H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, passed the House on April 30, 2026.


Track the House text and the Senate's next steps as separate stages, each with its own owner.

Federal: Appropriations

Next year's funding bill cleared the House.

H.R. 8646, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2027, passed the House on June 4, 2026.


Route report language to the program offices it names as soon as it appears.

Federal: Senate

Leadership nominations keep moving.

The Senate confirmed Glen Smith as Under Secretary for Rural Development on August 7, 2026. Gregory Ibach's nomination for Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs was received on September 28, 2026.


Track each nomination's committee steps alongside the bills the same members are working on.

Statuses as of November 9, 2026, from the public records listed in Sources.

AI that moves the work forward

Work your team can review, not rebuild.

Agents prepare the first pass. Your team reviews the sources and decides what happens next.

  1. Triage new bills that name the department against your priorities

  2. Brief your team before a meeting with an Agriculture Committee member

  3. Log Hill meetings and inquiries to the bills they covered

  4. Prepare a plain summary of new report language for program offices

See the department's agenda in Quorum.

Walk through the bills, nominations and members on your agenda in a live Quorum workspace.

Sources and notes
  • Illustrations are built from public records as of November 9, 2026 and labeled Illustrative. They show potential workflows, not work performed for USDA.
  • Bill statuses and officials' roles come from Quorum's records of official legislative sources.
  • Issue descriptions summarize public records and do not state positions.
  • Product images are from www.quorum.us and show sample data.
  • Customer outcomes are from public case studies on www.quorum.us.
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