To confer in the Secretary of Agriculture the authority to use civil investigative demands for enforcement of the Packers and Stockyards Act, 1921, and for other purposes.

This bill would give the Secretary of Agriculture the power to use civil investigative demands, which are formal requests for documents or information, to help enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921, a law that deals with fair practices in the livestock, meatpacking, and poultry industries. No official summary is available for this bill.

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