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House Speaker John Boehner says rushed farm bill was nearly the same as old one »
House Republicans rushed a new farm bill to a vote last week. But it wasn’t really all that new, Speaker John Boehner argued. Sure, it had been stripped of more than $700 billion in nutrition spending that Republicans wanted to consider separately. But the $200 billion package of farm measures that was left essentially matched what lawmakers had already considered, Boehner said at his weekly news conference July 11. It passed that day 216-208. Some unlikely bedfellows cried foul. A policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation called it a "game of bait and switch" with "sneaky changes." Democratic Rep. ... Source Main page (current trends)
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