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BREAKING Senate passes farm bill
https://www.politico.com ^ | POLITICO STAFF 06/28/2018

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 Trump’s desk before the current law expires


TOPICS: Agriculture; Education; Food; History; Reference
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2018election; 2020election; agriculture; election2018; election2020; energy; farmbill; farmsubsidy; federalspending; foodstamps; hydrocarbons; maga; opec; usda
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1 posted on 06/28/2018 3:05:21 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

The Senate is Republican right? You know, the party of Reagan and Trump.


2 posted on 06/28/2018 3:14:26 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622

Ethanol?


3 posted on 06/28/2018 3:16:55 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Didn’t even know it was in the works. “easily passes” worries me. That probably means lots of kickbacks to pols.


4 posted on 06/28/2018 3:17:51 PM PDT by Pollard (If you don't understand what I typed, you haven't read the classics.)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Are these farm bills still necessary?


5 posted on 06/28/2018 3:23:00 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Ethanol?”


I would dearly like to eliminate that subsidy - mainly because I don’t like putting the crap into my gas tanks, but also because I think it the height of folly to subsidize the burning of food as fuel - it raises food prices worldwide (which sucks if you’re poor), and the lower demand for real fuel slows down exploration.

But I’m sure that the Swamp Creatures only added to the subsidy.


6 posted on 06/28/2018 3:23:26 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

How much is this pork laden bill going to cost?


7 posted on 06/28/2018 3:23:29 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Ethanol is covered by the Environmental Protection Agency, not in the Farm Bill.

The Farm Bill is actually 80% food stamps and about 10% crop insurance.


8 posted on 06/28/2018 3:25:53 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Are these farm bills still necessary?

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Yes, we need to spend another $428 billion on farm subsidies, food stamps and so-called conservation. /sarc


9 posted on 06/28/2018 3:26:12 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: Starboard

Sonny Perdue was the governor of Georgia and is now the ag secretary. He loves him some pork and chicken.

Why are there no ICE raids in Gainesville, GA? It is the chicken capital of the world. Think about it.

Yes, we need to spend another $428 billion on farm subsidies, food stamps and so-called conservation.


10 posted on 06/28/2018 3:33:09 PM PDT by Dacula
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To: MichaelCorleone

Have you looked at the price of grain recently? Many farmers will be lucky to break even with a bumper crop.


11 posted on 06/28/2018 3:41:44 PM PDT by SoftwareDeveloper
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Thank you for injecting facts and sanity into the unhinged tripe over ethanol. I love how so many FReepers think they’re experts on ethanol and yet they don’t know the first thing about how the RFS works. pr as we see here, which agency even administers it.


12 posted on 06/28/2018 3:44:30 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: dp0622
The Senate is Republican right? You know, the party of Reagan and Trump.


13 posted on 06/28/2018 3:48:03 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Marxism: Wonderful theory, wrong species)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Same as I was thinkin’. It’s like a cash cow.


14 posted on 06/28/2018 3:48:20 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Starboard

‘Farm bill’ cost is around $200 billion per year, with around $160 billion of that being ‘food stamps’ having nothing to do with farms.


15 posted on 06/28/2018 3:49:47 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM! for sure!)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Yes.


16 posted on 06/28/2018 4:02:58 PM PDT by madison10 (Pray for the protection of Devin Nunes and his family.)
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To: Pollard

The farm bill is traditionally the “entitlements” bill. Both parties love to give handouts.


17 posted on 06/28/2018 4:06:38 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Personally, I DON’T CARE!!!

Give me the courts, and keep from passing Amnesty, and I’m perfectly happy. If they need a ‘farm bill’ now, so be it, I’ll fight that battle when the MUCH MORE IMPORTANT issues are dealt with.


18 posted on 06/28/2018 4:34:45 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

The “farm” bill is mostly nutrition programs with a host of ag and rural related programs tacked on. In terms of money, the food stamp program is by far the biggest piece of USDA. In terms of personnel, the Forest Service is the biggest. APHIS is the most lethal agency in the federal government; if we really wanted to control the border, we’d put APHIS in charge and classify Mexicans as an invasive species. USDA does food safety (who do you think monitors slaughterhouses and packing plants), works on export promotion (the U.S. is the world’s biggest food exporter), monitors and certifies the quality of commodities in international trade, does a lot of work on conservation, and does a lot of basic scientific research. The farmer support system today has been whittled down mostly to subsidized crop insurance. The subsidy is intended mainly to help small and mid-sized farmers; the big guys could dispense with it easily and would then get even bigger as their smaller scale neighbors were forced out.


19 posted on 06/28/2018 4:51:51 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: ATOMIC_PUNK

Are you saying they did something?


20 posted on 06/28/2018 5:03:02 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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