Farm Bill Conference leaders are working to try and come to some type of compromise on new farm legislation. Environmental Working Group’s Vice President of Government Affairs Scott Faber says his group prefers the Bipartisan Senate version of the farm bill and he thinks that has a better chance of being approved than what the House came up with.
He says besides the farm safety net differences in the two bills, there are other problems with the House farm bill with several anti-public health riders his group opposes. Despite that, Faber expects Congress to pass a new farm bill during the lame duck session.
Faber says one of the major holdups on passing a farm bill has been work requirements for the Food Stamp program put in by the House. He says that doesn’t have any chance of making it in a final farm bill.
Faber says EWG also opposes another provision holding up the farm bill and that’s House Ag Chair Michael Conaway’s push to give more payments to cotton growers at the expense of Midwest farmers.
