House votes to cut SNAP spending by $40 billion
date:Sep 23, 2013
nly farm bill passed by the House before the August congressional recess. The revised Federal Agricultural Reform and Risk Management Act, which contained no nutrition title, was passed on a party-line vote on July 11. The initial version of FARRM, which proposed about $21 billion in nutrition program spending cuts over 10 years, was rejected a month earlier by the full House.

The original FARRM bill foundered because several conservative Republican members of the House voted against the measur
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