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House defeats farm bill amid bipartisan opposition
Fox ^ | 6/20/13

Posted on 06/20/2013 11:24:27 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

Edited on 06/20/2013 11:53:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

In a defeat for Republican leadership, the House on Thursday rejected a sweeping farm bill, amid opposition from both sides of the aisle.

More than 60 House Republicans defected and voted against the half-trillion-dollar bill, which sets funding for farm subsidies and other assistance as well as food stamps.

The vote was 234-195 against the bill.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; alteredsource; carbontax; energy; farm; farmbill; federalspending; foodstamps; kenyanbornmuzzie; opec; subsidy; vanity; welfarestate
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To: Sacajaweau
Obama said he would veto it...it cut the food stamp program.

Indeed.

<i>But the Senate bill cut the food stamp program, too!

The House bill, that the Tea Party caucus rejected, cut the food stamp program by $2 billion/yr over the next five years. But the Senate bill -- that's already passed -- cut food stamps by $400 million/year.

How very, very interesting...

101 posted on 06/20/2013 12:18:26 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Exactly.


102 posted on 06/20/2013 12:19:14 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ConservativeMan55

It’s for the chilren you know.

Or is that “chillin”...I always forget...


103 posted on 06/20/2013 12:21:53 PM PDT by FourtySeven (47)
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To: txrefugee
Thank that SOB, LBJ, for the scheme of putting food stamps in the USDA budget. He knew he could hide it there....only now it’s 80% and going up exponentially during the Obama reign.

Whoa! LBJ wasn't "hiding" it. He was simply putting something in the Ag budget that urban Congressmen and Senators would vote for. If the Farm Bill had to rely solely on rural Congressmen and Senators for passage, there would never have been any subsidies.

104 posted on 06/20/2013 12:27:47 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: FreeAtlanta

How’s that gonna workout at the Tattoo Salons?


105 posted on 06/20/2013 12:28:56 PM PDT by poobear (Socialism in the minds of the elites, is a con-game for the serfs, nothing more.)
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To: FreeAtlanta

Good plan but are we out of cheez?


106 posted on 06/20/2013 12:34:56 PM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Whoa!

The Farm Bill is one of the biggest pieces of pork in Washington, too.

Foodstamp fraud and Ethanol Fraud both defeated in one go?

Can we hope it sticks?


107 posted on 06/20/2013 12:37:26 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (If youÂ’re happy and you know it clank your chains!)
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To: okie01

108 posted on 06/20/2013 12:44:39 PM PDT by devolve (----- ----- ----- it not unlegal iffen I do*s it ----- ----- -----)
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To: what's up

>Why did dems vote against it?

Because the handouts to their voters were too small. If our government truly only helped those that need it (seniors, crippled, unable to work), the democrat party would die.


109 posted on 06/20/2013 12:45:34 PM PDT by soycd
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To: FreeAtlanta
replace that food stamp/ EBT crap with $20 a week care boxes of beans, rice, powdered milk and eggs.

I remember that from the 1960's. The govt paid farmers TO grow food for the poor. It worked very well to inspire people to get to work to eat better and be the safety net for those that lost work.

110 posted on 06/20/2013 12:52:51 PM PDT by USCG SimTech (Honored to serve since '71)
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To: lurk
Back when I was a kid, the Food Stamp program was very limited and most of what got given away was surplus government cheese, butter and grain.

It, at least, had the effect of encouraging overproduction of these commodities and making products which used them less expensive.

Now, when you see premium food like choice cuts of meat, shrimp and the like purchased in your local supermarket, the chances are pretty good that they are puchased mostly by people with EBT cards.

This doesn't help bring down the price of other commodities which we mere taxpaying peasants can afford.

111 posted on 06/20/2013 12:55:32 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: cotton1706

“They call it the farm bill but it’s the Department of Agriculture appropriations bill. That will still need to be funded.”

No it doesn’t. The Department of Agriculture should be eliminated along with the Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, Department of Education, Department of Energy, Department of Transporation and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The missions of all of these departments belong to the states under the Constitution. Eliminate them completely and in two years the majority of the American people will be unaffected demonstrating the bureaucracy is unnecessary. The only way to fix Washington is to defund large chunks which means eliminating entire departments.


112 posted on 06/20/2013 1:12:40 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Half the Republicans thought it was too much and half the DemocRats didn’t think it was enough.


113 posted on 06/20/2013 1:18:10 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal and WOD defender is a totalitarian screaming to get out.)
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To: jjotto; no-to-illegals

The recent combination of low yields, low support prices and no new farm bill for a number of years has resulted in essentially no direct commodity related payments to farmers for quite a while. The commodity price now has to be really low for those payments to kick in. In some, if not all, of the proposed bills, the support prices are based on the recent prices received by the producers. If there is an average or above average yield this year or any year, the commodity price will go way down & the taxpayer will be stuck with a large increase in the 20% non-SNAP part of the farm bill.

The support prices need to be lower than those proposed and the “Farm Bill” needs to divest the SNAP program.


114 posted on 06/20/2013 1:19:31 PM PDT by Western Phil
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To: ConservativeMan55

This was championed by a Congressman Mike Conaway, apparently from Midland, Texas.

Is there a Bush connection?

I thought this area was very conservative.


115 posted on 06/20/2013 1:21:06 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Western Phil

Just to add a point: Of that 20% of the farm bill that is non-SNAP, 75% of that goes to a handful of large corporations.


116 posted on 06/20/2013 1:24:44 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: ConservativeMan55

“This shouldn’t have been called a “farm” bill...”

How about “the pig, pork and bacon bill”


117 posted on 06/20/2013 1:51:01 PM PDT by staytrue
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To: lurk

The urban cretins are farming away taxpayers dollars.


118 posted on 06/20/2013 2:10:46 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Turbo Pig

Agricultural interests play a role here with the “conservative” Steve King of Iowa a YES, Bachmann was a NO and she calls herself the same “conservative” that King does.

The most conservative voting members of the PA delegation voted NO (Pitts, Perry, Rothfus) on this pork for the ag industry bill (my guess)?????


119 posted on 06/20/2013 2:13:23 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Republicans voted for this Food Stamp Bill on Steroids 171-62.

Glad it was beaten back, only if temporarily and only if the rest of the No votes came from hardcore commies who want to give away even more money.

About 25% of the Republicans voted against it, more than we have seen on many bloated funding bills in the past. Maybe the growing numbers will give some of the others a bit of backbone.


120 posted on 06/20/2013 2:15:00 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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