He Says 'My Dairy Farm Resiliency Act Strengthened' the Dairy Safety Net. His Bill Never Got a Hearing. The Provision Was a Colleague's Bill First, and the Committee Had It in Its Farm Bill a Year Before He Filed It.

Agriculture Source: Facebook Post (official page) and Press Release MISLEADING

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Why this matters

Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC) is the federal government’s main income safety net for dairy farms. It pays out when the gap between the national milk price and feed costs falls below a level the farmer chooses. The program did get stronger in 2025: the amount of milk a farm can insure at the cheap Tier I rate rose from 5 million to 6 million pounds a year, production histories were updated, and the program was extended through 2031.

Those changes are real, and Rep. Langworthy voted for the bill that made them. The question is the possessive. He told constituents that his Dairy Farm Resiliency Act strengthened the program. The record shows a bill that was introduced by another member first, that he reintroduced word for word, that never received a hearing, a markup or a vote, and whose one original idea was not enacted. The 6-million-pound change became law because the House Agriculture Committee put it in its own farm bill a year before he filed his, and then carried it into the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Statement

Source: Official Facebook page, October 7, 2026, sharing an October 2 press release:

“I’m so proud to fight for our farmers. My Dairy Farm Resiliency Act strengthened the Dairy Margin Coverage program. It protects up to 6 million pounds of milk when prices drop or feed costs soar. This helps family farms thrive and keeps food on our tables.”

Facebook post from the Congressman Nick Langworthy page sharing a langworthy.house.gov press release headlined Congressman Langworthy Highlights Expanded Dairy Safety Net as 2027 enrollment opens, with the caption quoted in this entry

The October 7, 2026 post on the official page.

The press release it links, dated October 2, 2026, is more careful in its wording and more expansive in its subhead:

Subhead: “Dairy Farm Resiliency Act provision championed by Congressman Langworthy increased production eligible for strongest DMC protections from 5 million to 6 million pounds”

“The strengthened DMC program includes a provision Congressman Langworthy championed in his Dairy Farm Resiliency Act (H.R. 294) and successfully advanced into law through H.R. 1, the Working Families Tax Cuts Act.”

“I introduced the Dairy Farm Resiliency Act because our dairy farmers deserve a strong and reliable safety net … I am proud that we were able to get this provision across the finish line and into law.”

The record

What his bill says and what happened to it

H.R. 294, the Dairy Farm Resiliency Act, was introduced by Rep. Langworthy on January 9, 2025, with Reps. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) and Joe Courtney (D-CT) as original cosponsors. It is one page. Section 2 does two things:

ProvisionBill text
(a) Production historyStrikes “during any one of the 2011, 2012, or 2013 calendar years” and inserts “in the most recent three-year history, as calculated once every five years”
(b) Tier I and Tier II premiumsIn Section 1407(b) and (c) of the Agricultural Act of 2014, “by striking 5,000,000' and inserting 6,000,000'”

Its history, from the Government Publishing Office status file:

DateAction
January 9, 2025Introduced; referred to the Committee on Agriculture
February 14, 2025Referred to two subcommittees
SinceNothing. No hearing, no markup, no vote. Six cosponsors in 21 months.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s status file lists 29 related bills. H.R. 294 is not one of them.

The bill was Rep. Marc Molinaro’s first

A bill with the same name and the same operative text, H.R. 4125, was introduced on June 14, 2023 by Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY-19), with Reps. Abigail Spanberger, Derrick Van Orden and Elissa Slotkin as original cosponsors. It drew eight cosponsors, including Rep. Claudia Tenney. Rep. Langworthy was not among them. It died in subcommittee in July 2023.

The two bills’ Section 2 texts are identical. After Mr. Molinaro lost his seat in November 2024, Rep. Langworthy reintroduced the bill under his own name.

His January 10, 2025 press release announcing seven agriculture bills said “Six of the seven bills were previously introduced by Congressman Langworthy in the 118th Congress.” For this bill, the status files do not show that. The same release described the Dairy Farm Resiliency Act only as “ensuring that production levels are updated every five years.” It did not mention 6 million pounds.

The committee had the 6-million-pound text a year before he filed

On May 21, 2024, House Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson introduced H.R. 8467, the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, the committee’s farm bill. Section 1402(a) reads:

“Tier I.–Section 1407(b) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. 9057(b)) is amended– (1) in the heading, by striking 5,000,000' and inserting 6,000,000’; and (2) in paragraph (1), by striking 5,000,000' and inserting 6,000,000’.”

Section 1401 set production history to “the highest annual milk marketings of the participating dairy operation during any one of the 2021, 2022, or 2023 calendar years.” The committee ordered the bill reported on May 24, 2024, by a vote of 33 to 21. Rep. Langworthy, by his own January 2025 release, “served as a member of the House Agriculture Committee during his first term,” so he was on the committee that adopted this text. That is a real connection to the provision. It is not the same as his bill having done it.

What became law

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Public Law 119-21), Section 10313, “Dairy Policy Updates,” is the provision that changed the program. It tracks the committee’s 2024 farm bill, section for section:

ElementEnacted law, Sec. 10313H.R. 8467 (committee, May 2024)H.R. 294 (Langworthy, Jan. 2025)
Production historyHighest of 2021, 2022 or 2023Highest of 2021, 2022 or 2023“most recent three-year history, as calculated once every five years”
Tier I and II premiums5,000,000 to 6,000,0005,000,000 to 6,000,0005,000,000 to 6,000,000
Payment cap (Sec. 1406)5,000,000 to 6,000,000not includednot included
25% premium discount2026 through 20312025 through 2029not included
Program extendedthrough 2031not in these sectionsnot included

The one provision that was distinctive to his bill, a production-history reset every five years, was not enacted. The one provision his bill shares with the law, the 6-million-pound threshold, was in the committee’s text before he sponsored anything.

Rep. Langworthy voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act on May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145, Yea) and again on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190, Aye). That vote is the whole of his documented role in enacting the change.

Who the dairy industry credits

The National Milk Producers Federation, May 14, 2025, on the committee’s reconciliation text: “We commend Chairman GT Thompson and committee members for advancing important investments that will help support and create opportunities for dairy.” Its statement in the committee’s May 21, 2025 release: “NMPF commends House Agriculture Committee Chairman GT Thompson (R-PA) and members of the committee.” Neither statement names Rep. Langworthy or the Dairy Farm Resiliency Act.

Spectrum News, reporting from Wisconsin on May 15, 2024, described the 6-million-pound change as the committee’s proposal and noted that Rep. Van Orden “cosponsored the legislation to do this,” meaning the Molinaro bill.

What the post gets right

“It protects up to 6 million pounds of milk when prices drop or feed costs soar.” USDA’s Farm Service Agency, September 30, 2026: the law “expanded the amount of production eligible for Tier 1 protection from five to six million pounds,” and DMC “provides financial protection when the difference between the national all-milk price and average feed cost falls below a producer-selected coverage level.” Milk above 6 million pounds can still be covered at the higher Tier II premium, so the figure is the cheap tier’s ceiling rather than the program’s. As plain-language description of the program, the sentence is accurate. Enrollment for 2027 runs October 5 through December 18, 2026.

Fair reading

  • Rep. Langworthy sponsored a bill containing the 6-million-pound language and voted for the law that enacted it. A member who sponsors a bill, sits on the committee, and votes for the final package can fairly say he supported the change.
  • “My Dairy Farm Resiliency Act strengthened the Dairy Margin Coverage program” says something different. The Act did not strengthen anything: it was never acted on, is not a related bill to the law, and its distinctive provision was dropped. The change was the committee’s text, introduced by the chairman, first proposed in a colleague’s bill, and enacted in a 900-page reconciliation law.
  • The press release’s “championed … and successfully advanced into law through H.R. 1” is closer to defensible, but it still presents committee work that predated his bill as a provision he carried.

This is the pattern the site has documented before: announcing an outcome that his office did not produce as though it did (see the farm-bill and grants entries linked below).

Questions this raises

  1. The January 2025 release said six of the seven bills were previously introduced by Rep. Langworthy in the 118th Congress. The Dairy Farm Resiliency Act was Rep. Molinaro’s. Which of the seven was the exception?
  2. Did Rep. Langworthy vote for H.R. 8467 at the May 2024 committee markup, when the 6-million-pound text was adopted? The committee’s roll call is not in the public status file.
  3. Why did the 2025 release describe the bill only as a five-year production-history update, the part that did not become law, and the 2026 release describe it only as the 6-million-pound change, the part that did?

Sources

Note: This entry documents publicly available information from the Government Publishing Office, the House Clerk, USDA, the House Agriculture Committee and Rep. Langworthy’s own office. It makes no claim about motive. Corrections with sources are welcome at [email protected].

Last updated: October 8, 2026