word is folks….that CONgress is tryn to pass
a 5 yr ‘compromise deal’ & but the problems cuttn the
foodstamp program – house GOP wants a 40bil cut but
senate wants 4bil cut - the dem housetards wanna
propose just a trimmer to match senate proposal…not enuff boehner
says. the two sides’re supposed to have a final compromise bill on
the house floor by tomorrow/dec 13 but the deadline could be pushed
into next year as its already + a year behind schedule. ***summa the
dems have been considering voting against any compromise farm bill in
order to kill the bill. if that happens, FS would continue to be
funded at current benefit. and boehner could very well play the
“haserts card” on any ‘rejected compromise’.
BLOATED
FARM SUBSIDIES WILL THE 2013 FARM BILL REALLY CUT THE
FAT? http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/Smith_FarmBill_RS.pdf
House
Speaker Boehner blames Democrats for tardy U.S. farm bill
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday accused Senate Democrats of blocking the path to a new U.S. farm bill that would cut food stamp benefits for the poor and boost crop insurance coverage for farmers. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101247306
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday accused Senate Democrats of blocking the path to a new U.S. farm bill that would cut food stamp benefits for the poor and boost crop insurance coverage for farmers. http://www.cnbc.com/id/101247306
Published:
December 11, 2013
WASHINGTON — Prospects for passage of a new farm bill before the end of the year appear dim, with just a week left before Congress adjourns for the holidays, although lawmakers insisted they were close to a deal. The current measure expires at the end of the month. Members of the House and Senate have been meeting to reconcile their different versions of a new bill, and they agree on many things, including expanding crop insurance for farmers. But they remain far apart on issues like cuts to the food stamp program. A House proposal would cut about $40 billion from the program, while a Senate version would trim roughly $4.5 billion, mainly by making administrative changes.
more here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/us/politics/no-farm-bill-in-sight-as-recess-looms-for-congress.html?ref=farmbillus
WASHINGTON — Prospects for passage of a new farm bill before the end of the year appear dim, with just a week left before Congress adjourns for the holidays, although lawmakers insisted they were close to a deal. The current measure expires at the end of the month. Members of the House and Senate have been meeting to reconcile their different versions of a new bill, and they agree on many things, including expanding crop insurance for farmers. But they remain far apart on issues like cuts to the food stamp program. A House proposal would cut about $40 billion from the program, while a Senate version would trim roughly $4.5 billion, mainly by making administrative changes.
more here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/12/us/politics/no-farm-bill-in-sight-as-recess-looms-for-congress.html?ref=farmbillus
Published:
December 10, 2013
Political Fight on Farm Aid and Food Stamps Hits Home in the Delta
BELZONI, Miss. — Thomas Bond, a cotton grower whose onetime 8,500-acre partnership of farms received $4 million in federal subsidies in the last seven years, thinks that many residents in the surrounding Mississippi Delta need food stamps. But he says the program is too big and rife with fraud. “There are a lot of people on food stamps who shouldn’t be,” Mr. Bond said in a recent interview at the Yazoo Country Club. “They could be working, but don’t.”
more here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/politics/in-mississippi-a-divide-on-farm-aid-and-food-stamps.html?ref=farmbillus
Political Fight on Farm Aid and Food Stamps Hits Home in the Delta
BELZONI, Miss. — Thomas Bond, a cotton grower whose onetime 8,500-acre partnership of farms received $4 million in federal subsidies in the last seven years, thinks that many residents in the surrounding Mississippi Delta need food stamps. But he says the program is too big and rife with fraud. “There are a lot of people on food stamps who shouldn’t be,” Mr. Bond said in a recent interview at the Yazoo Country Club. “They could be working, but don’t.”
more here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/politics/in-mississippi-a-divide-on-farm-aid-and-food-stamps.html?ref=farmbillus
Published: December 3, 2013
WASHINGTON — Congress could enact a new U.S. farm law that cuts food stamps for the poor and expands federally subsidized crop insurance in January if negotiators soon break a deadlock, the lawmaker overseeing the negotiations said on Tuesday. Cuts in food stamps are the paramount issue for the farm bill, which is more than a year overdue. Conservative Republicans want the largest cuts in a generation, $40 billion over 10 years. House Democrats solidly oppose any cuts. The sides continue to struggle for a compromise.
WASHINGTON — Congress could enact a new U.S. farm law that cuts food stamps for the poor and expands federally subsidized crop insurance in January if negotiators soon break a deadlock, the lawmaker overseeing the negotiations said on Tuesday. Cuts in food stamps are the paramount issue for the farm bill, which is more than a year overdue. Conservative Republicans want the largest cuts in a generation, $40 billion over 10 years. House Democrats solidly oppose any cuts. The sides continue to struggle for a compromise.
The
food stamp fight has repeatedly slowed work on the five-year, $500
billion bill, which has also endured the first-ever defeat of a farm
bill in the House of Representatives. Deep divisions also remain over
crop subsidies and dairy reform, other lines of dispute that must be
resolved. With time running out in 2013, Frank Lucas of Oklahoma, who
chairs the House-Senate negotiations, admitted for the first time
that the farm bill may not be ready for a vote before year-end, even
though a broad framework might be hammered out this month.
more here http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/12/03/business/03reuters-usa-agriculture-farmbill.html?ref=farmbillus
more here http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2013/12/03/business/03reuters-usa-agriculture-farmbill.html?ref=farmbillus
Farm
Bill 2013 Senate
Conferees
http://frac.org/leg-act-center/farm-bill-2012/
http://frac.org/leg-act-center/farm-bill-2012/
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