# H.R. 2071 (119th): Save Our Shrimpers Act

Save Our Shrimpers Act This bill prohibits federal funds from being made available to international financial institutions (e.g., the International Monetary Fund) for financing activities related to foreign shrimp farms. The bill also requires an annual report on compliance by U.S. leadership of international financial institutions with policies to oppose financing for certain commodities or minerals. Specifically, the bill requires the Department of the Treasury to condition any provision of federal funds to an international financial institution on the requirement that the funds not be used to finance any activity related to shrimp farming, shrimp processing, or the export of shrimp in any foreign country. Under current law, Treasury must instruct U.S. leadership of international financial institutions to oppose providing financial assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if (1) the commodity or mineral is in surplus on world markets, and (2) the export of such commodity or mineral will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a competing commodity or mineral (or of the same or a similar commodity or mineral). This bill requires the Government Accountability Office to investigate and annually report to Congress on the extent to which U.S. leadership at these institutions have carried out Treasury's instructions.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: economic_support. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: gao_oversight. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: industry_welfare. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: international_finance. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: shrimp_industry. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: trade_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 156: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill combines a legitimate concern for fair treatment of domestic producers against foreign subsidized competition with a prudential, protectionist approach to international lending policy. It does not directly advance or restrain a named moral evil, so it falls in a mixed, prudential area rather than a clear good or evil classification.
Theological note: The measure concerns fair dealing in commerce and the protection of domestic livelihoods, which Scripture treats seriously under justice and neighbor love. Its central aim, however, is a trade and industry-protection measure for a domestic producer group, a prudential economic question rather than a direct moral harm or a direct restraint of one.

## Recorded votes

Roll 156: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended. Yea 391 · Nay 18 · Other 20.

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