Oppose Ag-Only Farm Bill: Spends More Than Senate Bill; Changes Make Subsidies Permanent
July 11, 2013
Last week, we saw the full measure of Republican cruelty. Discarding decades of precedent, the House GOP stripped the nation’s food stamp...
House Republicans rushed a new farm bill to a vote last week. But it wasn’t really all that new, Speaker John Boehner argued.
Sure,...
After a failed attempt earlier, the House GOP has finally passed legislation to fund U.S. farm policy for the next five years. The only...
After two embarrassing failures to pass a farm bill, usually a popular bipartisan exercise marrying crop subsidies with food stamps, House...
House Republicans achieved the elusive goal of passing a farm bill Thursday by slicing federal support for food programs from the bill,...
Republicans narrowly pushed through a farm bill stripped of nutrition programs on Thursday in a raucous session marked by Democratic charges...
The House narrowly passed a pared-back farm bill Thursday after Republican leaders stripped out the nutrition title — affecting food...
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Thursday released a new score on the split farm bill.
The CBO said that the bill...
The House will vote Thursday on a new farm bill in a major test for Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and the rest of the House GOP leadership...
Remember this chart about the contents of the House farm bill?
As you can see, the farm bill isn’t purely a “farm” bill. About 80...
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Volume XVIII No. 37
Possible action in Syria has become the most recent excuse du jour for Pentagon boosters...
July 11, 2013