The Hill, July 16, 2018
“Faced with a choice between a House bill that increases hunger and throws out the lessons of experience and a Senate bill that builds on time-tested lessons to reduce poverty and hunger and support work, the conference committee’s choice should be clear,” write Olivia Golden, executive director of the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), and Elizabeth Lower-Basch, CLASP’s director of income and work supports, in this op-ed. “In resolving the farm bill’s nutrition title, however, Congress should follow the Senate bill, which passed with overwhelming bipartisan support by an 86-11 vote, and not the House bill, which squeaked by with just a 2-vote margin.”
Read more at http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/397188-house-and-senate-farm-bills-set-contrasting-visions-for.
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