“I doubt we can get support in the Senate for saving $20 billion,” said Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican, who wants food stamp reform.

Analysts say it will be difficult to write food stamp provisions that both chambers will accept. While House Republicans seek large cuts, the Senate passed a farm bill in June that would trim a comparatively small $4 billion. “There have been no discussions in the (Republican) conference on how we get to 218” votes, the minimum needed to pass a food stamp bill, said Huelskamp. Some Republicans would cut food stamps by more than $100 billion over 10 years and tighten eligibility rules. Two meetings have not yielded a plan.Īnother conservative Republican, Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, said he was worried a House-Senate deal on food stamps would be reached before the House voted on a Republican-written bill. Fiscally conservative Republicans helped defeat a farm bill in June because they wanted deeper cuts than the $20 billion - largest in a generation - that were proposed. 2 Democrat Steny Hoyer, that there have been closed-door meetings among House Republicans to find consensus on food stamps. The new farm bill is expected to expand the taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance system.Ĭantor said, during an exchange with the No.

They are the largest hurdle to a new farm law, already nine months behind schedule. Without a new law, farm subsidies will revert to sky-high levels dictated by a 1949 law and the price of milk at the grocery store could double.įood stamps traditionally are part of farm bills. Congress has 12 days of work scheduled before then, mostly because of a five-week summer recess. Majority Leader Eric Cantor said the House “eventually” would open final-round discussions with the Senate on a farm bill that could cost $100 billion a year. A combine drives through a field of soft red winter wheat during the harvest on a farm in Dixon, Illinois, July 16, 2013.

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