House Speaker John Boehner, in his gloomiest assessment yet, lamented the lack of “real progress” toward a compromise $500 billion farm bill and said on Thursday the House would try to head off a potential doubling of milk prices in January. Congress is more than a year behind schedule in overhauling U.S. farm law, hobbled […] Continue reading →
Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., released a report yesterday illustrating the latest Republican hypocrisy. The report profiles 14 Republican congressmen who receive federal agriculture subsidies. Each member voted for the recently passed farm bill, which extended their subsidies (and in many cases, made the subsidies more generous) while for the first time in 50 years removing nutrition programs (the […] Continue reading →
by Mark Horne The conservatives in the Republican Party managed to crack through the evil bipartisan tradition of the Farm Bill. They rocked the boat. They disrupted the monopoly. They put a fly in the ointment. The fought the power. Yay, Conservatives! As Politico writes: “…the decision to jettison the nutrition title breaks with nearly […] Continue reading →
Republican leaders hoping to recover from an embarrassing defeat on the House floor last month are preparing to split a massive farm bill in two and put it up for a vote as early as Thursday. The GOP House leadership released a smaller version of the five-year bill late Wednesday, dropping a politically sensitive section […] Continue reading →
The House voted on Wednesday to cut food stamps by $2 billion a year as part of a wide-ranging farm bill. The chamber rejected 234-188 a Democratic amendment to the five-year, half-trillion-dollar farm legislation that would have maintained current spending on food stamps, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The overall bill […] Continue reading →
Christmas may be six months off, but it seems the Grinch is already at work. Look at the farm bill now under consideration in the House of Representatives — it carries an unwelcome stocking stuffer known as the Christmas tree tax. If the name of the tax sounds vaguely familiar, that may be because the […] Continue reading →
