In one week of farm bill consideration, 247 amendments have been drafted and the Senate has now voted on two. Both were voted down: one to turn the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) into a block grant that would allow states to run the program, and the other to repeal the sugar program. The sugar program vote is very interesting; more discussion on that later.Amendments are the key to the farm bill. The House Republican Majority leadership is in a tricky spot; it has to balance having rural members with Tea Party and farm bill constituencies from having to take tough votes that will put them on the wrong side of either one of these groups. So far, it seems as though the Senate Republican Minority leadership's strategy is to...
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