date:Sep 23, 2013
the full House had proposed about $21 billion in cuts to federal nutrition programs, whereas the Senates farm bill, the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act, proposed cuts of about $4 billion. So, H.R. 3102 would nearly double the cuts proposed in the original FARRM bill and would exact spending reductions 10 times greater than those agreed by the Senate in its farm bill.
Senator Debbie Stabenow, chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry said, We have never bef