House likely to vote this weekend on farm bill procedural measure
September 27, 2013 | 11:50 AM
The House is likely to vote this weekend on a plan to combine the farm program bill and the nutrition bill into one measure to be sent to the Senate, a House Rules Committee aide said today.
It is unclear whether the measure would be considered on its own or combined with other legislation.
The measure would pave the way for the House to send a combined farm bill to the Senate and for the Senate to reject it and ask for a conference on the farm bills passed by the House and the Senate and to reappoint Senate conferees.
After the Senate has reappointed conferees and sent a message to the House, then House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, would appoint House conferees.
Late Thursday the House Rules Committee passed the measure as part of a larger resolution to ease consideration of a continuing resolution to fund the government and to deal with the public debt.
The section on the farm bill says:
Upon adoption of this resolution, the House hereby (1) takes from the speaker’s table the bill (H.R. 2642) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto; and (2) concurs in the Senate amendment with an amendment substituting for the matter proposed to be inserted by the Senate amendment the text of H.R. 2642, as passed by the House, modified by the insertion of a new title IV consisting of the text of H.R. 3102, as passed by the House, with designations, short titles, and cross-references conformed accordingly.
It is unclear whether the measure would be considered on its own or combined with other legislation.
The measure would pave the way for the House to send a combined farm bill to the Senate and for the Senate to reject it and ask for a conference on the farm bills passed by the House and the Senate and to reappoint Senate conferees.
After the Senate has reappointed conferees and sent a message to the House, then House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, would appoint House conferees.
Late Thursday the House Rules Committee passed the measure as part of a larger resolution to ease consideration of a continuing resolution to fund the government and to deal with the public debt.
The section on the farm bill says:
Upon adoption of this resolution, the House hereby (1) takes from the speaker’s table the bill (H.R. 2642) to provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2018, and for other purposes, with the Senate amendment thereto; and (2) concurs in the Senate amendment with an amendment substituting for the matter proposed to be inserted by the Senate amendment the text of H.R. 2642, as passed by the House, modified by the insertion of a new title IV consisting of the text of H.R. 3102, as passed by the House, with designations, short titles, and cross-references conformed accordingly.
