# 119-hr-648: Strengthening our Servicemembers with Milk Act

119-hr-648, Strengthening our Servicemembers with Milk Act, is a 119th Congress bill sponsored by Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] (R-WI); status introduced (as of 2025-12-21).

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## Facts
- Bill: 119-hr-648
- Congress: 119
- Title: Strengthening our Servicemembers with Milk Act
- Status: introduced
- Introduced: 2025-01-23
- Sponsor: Rep. Van Orden, Derrick [R-WI-3] (R-WI)
- Cosponsors: 31
- Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
- Touches household money: no
- Last recorded action: 2025-12-21

## Summary

**This bill would require the Department of Defense to provide fluid or powdered milk in a range of varieties to service members at military dining facilities.** It would also prohibit buying that milk from any entity owned or controlled by a foreign adversary, using the Commerce Department's determination process in 15 CFR 7.4.

## Cosponsors (31)

- Rep. Reschenthaler, Guy [R-PA-14] (R-PA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Thompson, Glenn [R-PA-15] (R-PA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Kelly, Trent [R-MS-1] (R-MS), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2] (R-NE), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. LaMalfa, Doug [R-CA-1] (R-CA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Messmer, Mark B. [R-IN-8] (R-IN), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-WI-1] (R-WI), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Bishop, Sanford D. [D-GA-2] (D-GA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller, Carol D. [R-WV-1] (R-WV), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3] (R-LA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Clyde, Andrew S. [R-GA-9] (R-GA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Luna, Anna Paulina [R-FL-13] (R-FL), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Miller, Mary E. [R-IL-15] (R-IL), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3] (R-TX), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9] (R-AZ), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17] (R-NY), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Moskowitz, Jared [D-FL-23] (D-FL), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1] (R-MN), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Malliotakis, Nicole [R-NY-11] (R-NY), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Scott, Austin [R-GA-8] (R-GA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5] (R-TN), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Grothman, Glenn [R-WI-6] (R-WI), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Downing, Troy [R-MT-2] (R-MT), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Langworthy, Nicholas A. [R-NY-23] (R-NY), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Meuser, Daniel [R-PA-9] (R-PA), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Cammack, Kat [R-FL-3] (R-FL), 2025-01-23T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Luttrell, Morgan [R-TX-8] (R-TX), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Johnson, Dusty [R-SD-At Large] (R-SD), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Fitzgerald, Scott [R-WI-5] (R-WI), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24] (R-NY), 2025-02-05T00:00:00.000Z
- Rep. Wied, Tony [R-WI-8] (R-WI), 2025-06-06T00:00:00.000Z

## Provisions PRIA read

- Free milk at military dining: benefit, low. If enacted, the bill would require the Defense Department to provide milk at on-base dining facilities. Milk could be fluid or powdered. It could be plain, flavored, organic or non-organic, whole, reduced-fat, low-fat, fat-free, or lactose-free. The Secretary of Defense could not buy milk from comp…

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## Sources
- [119-hr-648 on Congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/648)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/legislation/119-hr-648 (as of 2025-12-21).