Source: Clayton Henkel, PROGRESSIVE PULSE, 1/29/14 House Republicans and Democrats voted 251-166 Wednesday to pass the 2014 farm bill
conference report. The wide-ranging bill ends direct payments to farmers cutting $23 billion in federal spending while trimming about $8 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. For more of this story, Click here. | 