Senate Farm Bill Fails in Committee Over SNAP Cost-Sharing Dispute
Democrats blocked the Republican-led plan over a one-year SNAP delay, leaving the committee deadlocked and the five-year farm bill stalled.
- The Senate Agriculture Committee rejected a five-year farm bill in a 10-11 vote, stalling the 983-page legislation over disputes about Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cost-sharing requirements for states.
- Democrats blocked the proposal, insisting on a two-year delay for state SNAP cost-sharing requirements, while Agriculture Chairman John Boozman, R-Ark., argued his one-year extension was his "best and final offer."
- Without legislative relief, state budgets face new costs exceeding $9 billion, with Illinois alone facing at least $600 million annually if SNAP payment error rates remain above 6 percent.
- Republican absences, specifically Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, left the party without a majority, allowing Democrats to defeat the measure by a single vote.
- American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall warned the "stakes are too high" for farmers to endure another year without an updated farm bill, urging senators to resume bipartisan negotiations.
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Omaha World-Herald
Lincoln Journal StarNebraska leaders decry partisanship as farm bill fails to advance from Senate committee
U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., and his nonpartisan challenger, Dan Osborn, agreed on blaming Democrats for not advancing a farm bill from a Senate committee. But Osborn also blamed Republicans.
Marietta Daily Journal
Kansas ReflectorFarm bill stalls, leaving Kansas farm leader concerned about whether it will pass this year
TOPEKA — A top Kansas agriculture advocate lost some of his optimism regarding the farm bill after the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee failed to move the bill forward Thursday. Nick Levendofsky, executive director of the Kansas Farmers Union, said he…
Durbin Fights For SNAP Benefits In Farm Bill
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, made a closing statement during today’s Committee consideration of the Farm Bill where he argued in support of Democrats’ request for a two-year delay to Republicans’ requirement that forces states to provide a share of the cost of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. The two-year delay is supported by a bipartisan coa…
Farm bill proposal fails in US Senate ag committee amid food assistance funding fight
The Senate Agriculture Committee clashed over SNAP error rate policy, and failed to advance updated farm bill legislation. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch)Farm bill progress stalled Thursday as the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee failed to move its version of the legislation forward due to a conflict over when states will shoulder a share of federal nutrition assistance costs. While the bill included bipartisan language from more t…
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