House Ag passes reconciliation measure
April 18, 2012 | 11:54 AM
The House Agriculture Committee today passed a reconciliation measure that would cut federal nutrition spending by $33 billion over 10 years, and forwarded it to the House Budget Committee.
The vote was by voice.
Debate was heated along party lines, but House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., stressed that the measure is highly unlikely to become law because the Senate does not plan to take up a budget resolution.
The measure did, however, display the lines of debate over nutrition spending that may come up in formal consideration of the farm bill.
Detailed analysis will follow.
The vote was by voice.
Debate was heated along party lines, but House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., stressed that the measure is highly unlikely to become law because the Senate does not plan to take up a budget resolution.
The measure did, however, display the lines of debate over nutrition spending that may come up in formal consideration of the farm bill.
Detailed analysis will follow.
