House sends farm bill to Trump without food stamp work requirements.
Published December 12, 2018
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The House on Wednesday passed a $867 billion farm bill without any Republican language that would have expanded work requirements for food stamp recipients.
The bill, which passed the Senate Tuesday by a vote of 87-13, now heads to the president’s desk for signature.
The House approved it overwhelmingly, 369-47, after it was stripped of significant reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, that had been included in the House version. The final bill is a bipartisan compromise between the House and Senate, where Democratic opposition to SNAP reforms forced lawmakers to strip out those reforms.
The GOP language would have broadened work requirements for food stamp recipients and directed $1 billion toward job training programs as part of a plan to wean people away from the program.
Democrats were opposed to the reforms and argued the work requirements would force needy people off food stamps and waste money on duplicative job training programs.
Elsewhere, the bill would legalize industrial hemp production, a provision favored by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., whose state is a producer.
The bill reauthorizes federal crop insurance programs and provides an additional $500 million to aid farmers in finding new foreign markets to export goods. It also provides $300 million to research and combat animal diseases.
Trump is expected to sign the bill. The legislation was passed just as farmers have struggled with exports in the wake of U.S. tariffs as well as other problems plaguing U.S. agriculture programs.
“Kansas farm bankruptcies are up six times since 2015," said Rep. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., a member of the House Agriculture Committee. "We’ve traveled thousands of miles in the past two years, touching base with farmers and agribusinesses across the state, and we’re proud to report that the final bill strengthens our safety net, prioritizes trade promotion, fully protects crop insurance, improves the dairy program, invests in broadband and rural health, and so much more."
They need to find new foreign markets for American agriculture (most of which is corporate) because the fat boy in the White House started a trade war with China, and they slapped heavy tariffs on American agricultural imports. That's par for the course.
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neptuneblue
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Wed 12 Dec, 2018 07:38 pm
@coldjoint,
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The obsessive hate in Islam is turned on me. I did not say those things, I am letting you know who did. If you want to call it hate, knock yourself out.
How did producing massive amounts of oil, coal, salt and precious gems get turned into advocating Sharia?
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coldjoint
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Wed 12 Dec, 2018 07:48 pm
@Setanta,
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obsessive hatred of Muslims.
You say Muslims, I say Islam. We all see the result when every conversation should be stopped by calling me a hater. Nothing but the silence that some people prefer when they consider it, Islam, untouchable, which is exactly what it is trying to accomplish.
Some sure do and it is by design. What are your answers to what I say Islam is. Why am I wrong to speak about a group that clearly teaches hate and acts on it. The root problem.
You seem inclined to ignore a very unpleasant reality.
Hey I've got a question (not entirely original - read something like it someplace this morning) that I'd like to pose to everyone:
When (not if - you know it will happen) crowds at Democratic rallies start chanting "Lock him up!", how should Democratic candidates handle it? Ignore it? Squash it and exhort them to "go high"? Chant along?
I don't know about you, but I find the sight of a politician standing in front of a howling mob and leading a chant...well, disturbing. Ugly. Not cool. Trump-like.
Trump deserves far worse than being locked. He sold out NATO to the Russians. That's treason, and if I were the judge of this matter, he would fry on the electric chair for it.
I agree, it seemed mob like an old Salem town chanting to burn the witch when they did it to Hillary. I think some class and dignity is long overdue after two years with Trump leading the tone of the country.
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revelette1
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Thu 13 Dec, 2018 10:01 am
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Trump accused his former lawyer of pleading out "in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence," and added: "As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!"
Legal analysts continued to say that Trump may be hurting himself by speaking out so publicly.
Matthew Miller, a spokesman for the Justice Department during the Barack Obama administration, tweeted: "Has anyone thought to tell @realDonaldTrump that he has the right to remain silent?"
Those prosecutors know what is at stake and who they are dealing with. I am sure they have other evidence to prove Cohen guilty confession is factual. In fact, going by how things have gone through out, it probably wasn't until he was faced with other corroborating evidence that he decided to own up to it.
