Most farm bill observers wonder why Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) even bothered to release text of her long-awaited farm bill at this late date, especially after seeing its contents.
Most farm bill observers wonder why Senate Ag Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) even bothered to release text of her long-awaited farm bill at this late date, especially after seeing its contents.
Perhaps the biggest sticking point is GOP desire to place new limits on SNAP to offset additional spending on crop subsidies. Lawmakers punted potential votes on the farm bill into the lame duck ...
In the ongoing lame-duck session — the period of post-election work ... The current, divided Congress had left unfinished business on the table before the recent federal elections, including passing a ...
On top of pushing for reauthorizing a five-year Farm Bill ... at a press conference about the lame-duck session earlier this week. “It can’t be business as usual in the remaining days of ...
Successful Farming reports analysts are questioning whether the price tag for the proposed agricultural aid is too high to be accepted and say that in the relatively short lame-duck session under way, ...