Jan 28 Watch Congress nears compromise on farm bill By PBS News Hour After two years of work and battle, Congress seems close to a farm bill deal. Gwen Ifill talks to Bloomberg News' Alan Bjerga about what's in the bipartisan compromise -- including changes to farm subsidies and $8 billion in cuts… Continue watching
Jan 27 Farm bill deal would cut food stamps by 1 percent By Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A House plan to make major cuts to food stamps would be scaled back under a bipartisan agreement on a massive farm bill, a near end to a more than two-year fight that has threatened to hurt rural… Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch Former Sen. Trent Lott: Republicans should pivot towards a positive agenda Former Sen. Trent Lott: Republicans should pivot towards a positive agenda… Continue watching
Jul 12 Watch Shields and Brooks on the Fluster Over Filibusters, Bids to Be Comeback Kids Shields and Brooks on the Fluster Over Filibusters, Bids by N.Y.'s Comeback Kids… Continue watching
Jul 11 Watch News Wrap: House Passes Farm Bill Without Food Stamps Funding In other news Thursday, House representatives voted 216-208 to pass a farm bill that excludes a measure for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps. Also, at least 31 people were killed in a series of attacks… Continue watching
Jun 21 Watch Shields and Brooks on Farm Bill Failure, Obama in Berlin Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks analyze the week's top political news with Jeffrey Brown, including the failure of the farm bill, the progress of immigration reform in the Senate and its prospects in the… Continue watching
Jun 20 Watch News Wrap: U.S. House Fails to Pass Farm Bill In other news Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass a five-year, half-trillion dollar farm bill. The bill would have cut food stamps by $2 billion annually. Also, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has changed his mind and says… Continue watching
Jun 10 Watch News Wrap: Deadly Car Bombings Continue Wave of Sectarian Violence in Iraq News Wrap: Deadly Car Bombings Continue Wave of Sectarian Violence in Iraq… Continue watching
Aug 06 Watch Food Stamps at Heart of ‘Unfinished’ Fight Over Farm Bill U.S. farmers have suffered greatly from drought this year, but the farm bill, promising help, failed to pass Congress before summer recess. In contention: food stamps. Judy Woodruff speaks to Daniel Newhauser of Roll Call about Congress' unfinished business and… Continue watching
Nov 16 NewsHour Connect: Supercommittee Fast-Tracks New Farm Bill By Saskia de Melker Every five years Congress passes a bundle of legislation related to food and agriculture, the last of which was passed in 2008. The bill allocates hundreds of billions of dollars for everything from crop subsidies and forest protection to… Continue reading