Posted on 12/12/2018 2:11:56 PM PST by KC_Lion
The Senate passed the updated 2018 Farm Bill on Tuesday, which legalized hemp and did away with implementing work requirements to receive food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
The Senate voted 87-13 to pass the legislation, which lawmakers unveiled Monday evening after months of back-and-forth negotiations and debate over whether work requirements should be included in the 2018 Farm Bill. Every single Senate Democrat voted for the revised bill, and eight Republicans opposed it.
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“The 2018 Farm Bill is our opportunity to make the American food and agriculture systems work more efficiently. I’m pleased to say we have done just that in this conference report,” Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, said in a statement. “I thank my counterparts in the Senate and House for coming to — and staying at — the table to reach a bipartisan, bicameral agreement for rural America.”
The legislation authorizes funding for agriculture and nutrition assistance programs for five years, legalizes commercial hemp, gives farmers subsidies, but does not include the reform requiring food stamp beneficiaries to work a defined number of hours to receive benefits.
House lawmakers passed a prior version of the bill in June, which did include the work requirements provision mandating that food stamp recipients work, volunteer, attend school, or take part in job training for a minimum of 20 hours a week to receive benefits.
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For your interest.
Pass a law that no one in congress can run for re-election when the budget is not balanced.
That will fix a lot
50 - 8 = The number of crap-sucking Marxists in Senate GOP clothing!
They are just as bad as the dems.. Trying to royally screw President Trump
Most of the ones remaining after this election are probably panting at the bit to be able to get on their knees and beg the House communists for something to suck on... (Of course I was referring to peppermint candy...Snicker)
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), is a moron and from Kansas. Sorry, I repeat myself.
We’ll be demanding asylum from leftist Mexico if this keeps up.
So, I am not a doper and I don’t even do recreational pot, but someone tell me, what does it mean that they are legalizing commercial pot? That means its still illegal for private growers? That means its no longer federally illegal? How much more convoluted have they made the laws now? Oh, and what is the commercial use of hemp, besides natural fiber rope, of course?
Too many turds still occupy the cesspool aka Congress. Drain it.
I’d say put a “-C” after their names, but Karl Marx would have insisted on having the work requirement.
I remember purchasing twine many years back and furious that it was imported.
I’m guessing for fiber and cordage cropping, not the ‘good’ stuff.
“Oh, and what is the commercial use of hemp, besides natural fiber rope, of course?”
Clothing, paper, CBD, Essential Fatty Acids (similar to fish oil) and more.
40 acres of hemp will produce 10x the fiber of 40 acres of trees over the same 20 year period. And 5x cotton.
Learn something new every day. I have seen hemp clothing before. Not sure I’d ever want to wear it. What I saw in any case was like burlap.
Every single Democrat supported it, but eight Republicans opposed it. How did it have 13 against it?
Worthless GOP.
You would wear Levis made from hemp. And all sorts of tough outerwear.
Not good for underwear.
This has nothing to do with pot, commercial or otherwise.
Most likely the reason is to pacify the farmers.
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