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Final budget deal could leave farm bill untouched

10/04/17 6:54 AM By Philip Brasher
KEYWORDS Debbie Stabenow farm bill food stamps Mike Conaway Pat Roberts SNAP Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
WASHINGTON, Oct. 4, 2017 - House conservatives spent weeks this spring demanding cuts in nutrition assistance that threatened to complicate passage of a new farm bill. But House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway, R-Texas, now says that he expects the final fiscal 2018 budget blueprint to leave farm bill spending unscathed.
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