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This is an exerpt from Jamie Dupree's column in "Washington Insider"
You can read the entire article at http://www.wsbradio.com/weblogs/jami...014-farm-bill/
The Farm Bill is no longer the Farm Bill, because almost 80% of the spending involved in it goes to food stamps and other nutrition programs run by Uncle Sam. The other 20% deals with farm subsidies, crop insurance, commodity and conservation programs.
The Nutrition section of the bill (food stamps) would cost an estimated $756 billion over ten years - that leaves only $200 billion for everything else in the legislation. [emphasis from Bill]
The biggest "other" items would be Crop Insurance (almost $90 billion), followed by Conservation ($57.6 billion) and Commodities ($44.4 billion).
The U.S. Senate is ready to give final approval on Tuesday to a major farm bill that will set out farm and food stamp policies for the next five years, at a cost of almost $100 billion each year.
At 959 pages in actual bill text, and another 186 pages in report language, it's almost assured that most lawmakers never read much more than some highlights about the bill, if that.
You can read the entire article at http://www.wsbradio.com/weblogs/jami...014-farm-bill/
The Farm Bill is no longer the Farm Bill, because almost 80% of the spending involved in it goes to food stamps and other nutrition programs run by Uncle Sam. The other 20% deals with farm subsidies, crop insurance, commodity and conservation programs.
The Nutrition section of the bill (food stamps) would cost an estimated $756 billion over ten years - that leaves only $200 billion for everything else in the legislation. [emphasis from Bill]
The biggest "other" items would be Crop Insurance (almost $90 billion), followed by Conservation ($57.6 billion) and Commodities ($44.4 billion).
The U.S. Senate is ready to give final approval on Tuesday to a major farm bill that will set out farm and food stamp policies for the next five years, at a cost of almost $100 billion each year.
At 959 pages in actual bill text, and another 186 pages in report language, it's almost assured that most lawmakers never read much more than some highlights about the bill, if that.
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