House-Passed Farm Bill Deemed Flawed by Senate Democrats
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A five-year farm-policy bill House Republicans passed and sent to the U.S. Senate now faces opposition among the Democrats needed to craft the final law, making the party-line vote a potentially hollow victory.
The House plan was approved yesterday 216-208 without Democratic support. The Republican measure severing food stamps from farm programs that were linked for decades makes the bill “extremely flawed,” said Senator Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee and the likely leader of that chamber’s negotiating team.