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Green Scissors Coalition Identifies Hundreds of Billions in Wasteful Subsidies
The next couple months will be consumed with discussion about the Catfood Commission II, and their efforts to reach a $1.5 trillion or higher deficit package. This will frustrate any attempt to pivot...
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Farm Bill Would Slash Food Stamps In Favor of Corporate Subsidies to Crop...
The farm bill is always one of the more sausage-making bills in Congress, actually literally so. Every five years agribusiness interests and the politicians who get contributions from them divy up a...
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Farm Bill Deal Reached for Amendments in Senate
The Senate reached a deal on amendments to the farm bill, which will allow them to begin voting today. In all, 73 mostly but not entirely germane amendments will be voted upon, stretched over two days,...
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House Leaders Drop Farm Bill Extension, Will Instead Push Disaster Relief
Forget about the farm bill. The House GOP leadership has dropped their efforts to pass a one-year extension of farm programs under current policy, weeks after they dropped efforts to pass a Republican...
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Farm Bill Set to Expire as Congress Leaves for Elections
Today is the last day of the legislative session before Election Day. Lawmakers will go home to campaign on September 21, which is the earliest date during an election cycle in decades. And they leave...
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House Farm Bill Includes $8 Billion Of Cuts To Food Stamps
After extensive negotiations and public shaming the House of Representatives did what it was going to do anyway and cut food stamps. So just be happy the bill only cuts food stamps by $8 billion...
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