Source: Forrest Laws, SOUTHEAST FARM PRESS, 7/25/17



Rep. Mike Rogers says too many conservative members of Congress voted against the farm bill in 2014 and blamed their vote on food stamps. Those votes almost keep the legislation from passing the House. To try to avoid another such problem, The 15-year Alabama congressman says he wants to split the 2018 farm bill into food stamp and farm program components when House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, brings the bill to the floor.

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