The Senate passed the updated 2018 Farm Bill on Tuesday, which legalized hemp and did away with implementing work requirements to receive food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The Senate voted 87-13 to pass the legislation, which lawmakers unveiled Monday evening after months of back-and-forth negotiations and debate over whether work requirements should be included in the 2018 Farm Bill. Every single Senate Democrat voted for the revised bill, and eight Republicans opposed it.
The bill, if it passes the House, would take the place of the Farm Bill which expired on September 30.
The legislation authorizes funding for agriculture and nutrition assistance programs for five years, legalizes commercial hemp, gives farmers subsidies, but does not include the reform requiring food stamp beneficiaries to work a defined number of hours to receive benefits.
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6 comments:
Bad bill without food stamp reform.
So they snuck in the bill the provision that the lazy doesn’t have to work for their welfare!
Unreal MAKE THEM YORK for SNAP don't pass this.
10:59 our representative could care less about what is reality
Surprise the Republicans gave in to the bullying Democrats. Republicans need to quit being passive. They are only pushing the Socialist Democrat agenda.
Say it aint so, Joe. Gave up the one food stamp reform that real touched on the meat of the problem. Alas.
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