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Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits [View all]
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/04/congress-passes-bill-cutting-farmer-payments-and-snap-benefits/
Congress passes bill cutting farmer payments and SNAP benefits
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 16:18 EST
The US Congress passed a massive, long-overdue bill Tuesday that overhauls agriculture policy, including halting direct payments to farmers.
The five-year $956.4 billion measure, which also reforms the food stamp program for the poor to save $8 billion, marks a rare point of cooperation among bitterly divided lawmakers.
It passed the Senate 68-32, with broad bipartisan support after easily clearing the House of Representatives last week.
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“We’ve arrived at a farm bill that works for all of America,” a relieved Senator Debbie Stabenow, the Democratic chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee who helped broker the deal with House Republicans, said moments before the vote.
unhappycamper comment: “We’ve arrived at a farm bill that works for all of America” ... Really? More hunger is more free?
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