House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee ranking member Sam Farr, D-Calif., said the delay in bringing up the Agriculture appropriations bill may mean Republicans fear they no longer have the votes to maintain the provision to require the Agriculture Department to grant a waiver from healthy school meal rules to any school that says it has been losing money on its meals program for six months, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

“I think they pulled the bill because they didn’t know if they had enough of their own votes,” Farr told the newspaper.

“Members go home, they pick up from the newspapers the feedback of what’s happening in Washington, and I think the longer this issue is on front pages the more difficulty they have in passing their provision.”

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