Posted on 06/28/2018 3:05:21 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
The Senate today easily passed its version of the farm bill by a vote of 86-11,paving the way for a conference committee to reconcile differences with the House's version of the sweeping agriculture and nutrition legislation.
The Senate farm bill attracted bipartisan support, as expected, but key differences with the House's partisan version, which passed last week, set up potentially contentious negotiations between the lawmakers who will be tasked with melding the two measures into one. The main differences relate to proposals for the food stamp program, farm subsidy caps and conservation initiatives.
Congress has until Sept. 30 to get a farm bill to President Donald Trumps desk before the current law expires
1 out 0f 3 people in California collect Welfare, 40% live below the poverty line, and there are 40 Million Plus on food Stamps.
NO we DON’T NEED the Farm bill or Food Stamps. they can WORK!
bkmk
Yet manufacturers get nothing. When a factory gets off shored and whole communities get devastated and NOBODY gives a sh!t.
Sorry, but whatever farmers need, they should get.
All winter long, the only fruit available is from south America. And IT STINKS.
Every fruit, every vegetable that comes from a foreign country sucks. I don’t know what or how our farmers do it, but their products are so superior that I would be willing to pay more, subsidize, hell, baby sit their kids.
We are blessed with them.
Honduras cantaloupes are particularly loathsome.
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