Senate passes $428 billion farm bill, setting up fight with House over food stamps, subsidies and...

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Source: The Washington Post



Senate passes $428 billion farm bill, setting up fight with House over food stamps, subsidies and conservation

By Washington Post Staff
June 28 at 5:42 PM

The Senate bill, which passed with bipartisan support, now requires reconciliation with a House measure passed last week.

The House-passed version imposed work requirements for food-stamp recipients and largely eliminated a popular conservation program. Those provisions are not included in the Senate version, setting up a struggle between House conservatives who pushed the provisions and Senate Democrats and some Republicans who oppose them.

The current law expires Sept. 30. If a new measure isn’t passed before then, some farm programs could expire or lose funding.

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/06/28/senate-passes-428-billion-farm-bill-setting-up-fight-with-house-over-food-stamps-subsidies-and-conservation/

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1. Of course the House GOPee is upset.

The bill isn't piggish enough.

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2. A wonder those that have never broke a sweat in their lives..

Are worried that the poor aren't working hard enough..

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3. The current FARM bill appropriation was REAL late

and didn't get passed and signed until February 2014, after expiring in 2012 (but had some supplemental stuff passed in the interim).

http://www.thefarmbill.com/
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-113publ79/html/PLAW-113publ79.htm