Big Government, Nasty Liberals
Republicans stripped food stamp funding from the Farm bill, saying they will work on a separate bill for food stamps later. Other aspects of the Farm bill still stink, but I suppose this is a small step in the right direction. So of course Democrats are infuriated.
House Republicans successfully passed a Farm Bill Thursday by splitting apart funding for food stamps from federal agricultural policy, a move that infuriated the White House and congressional Democrats who spent most of the day trying to delay a final vote.
Lawmakers voted 216 to 208 to make changes to federal agricultural policy and conservation programs and end direct subsidy payments to farmers. But the measure says nothing about funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps, which?historically constitutes about 80 percent of the funding in a Farm Bill. ?.
Several Democratic lawmakers rose in opposition to the plan early Thursday as debate began, with several of them repeatedly saying that the new bill ?hurts the children of America? or ?increases hunger in America.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) mockingly made a parliamentary inquiry, saying he had just obtained a copy of the 600-page bill.
?It appears to have no nutrition title at all, is this a printing error?? Butterfield asked. (Read More)
Someone call a waaaaambulance!
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