a:3:{s:16:"field_story_body";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:5:"value";s:1325:"<span style="font-size: larger;">You would think that a &ldquo;Farm Bill&rdquo; would be primarily be about agriculture and farming. Too bad that isn&rsquo;t the case. </span><br />
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<em><strong><span style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: larger;">The farm bill currently before the U.S. House seeks to appropriate almost a trillion dollars for &ldquo;Farm&rdquo; program spending. Of that $1,000,000,000.00 Senator Stabenow, the Agriculture Committee Chair, had included $740 billion for food stamps which left only $200 billion for farm related activities.</span></span></strong></em><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">Republican Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana has proposed amendments to the five-year farm bill that would remove food-stamp policy from the rest of the bill, creating what he described as a &ldquo;farm-only&rdquo; farm bill.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: larger;">To read about the &ldquo;Farm Bill&rdquo; and the amendment to remove food stamps from it click on the following story link:</span><br />
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