Farm Bill and Drought Aid
Congress left at for its summer recess without approving a long-term farm bill to renew nutrition and agriculture programs. The bottleneck was in the House, where Republican Speaker John Boehner (OH-R) determined that Members were still too divided over the bill’s provisions to make its passage feasible. Exacerbating the situation has been the severe and broad-scale drought the country is experiencing. Data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that July 2012 was the hottest month on record in the contiguous United States. The Senate passed its farm bill, S. 3240, on June 21 by a vote of…
