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House offers deal, dropping some demands on SNAP

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., needs to read a joint farm bill offer from House Agriculture Committee Chairman Michael Conaway, D-Texas, and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., before commenting on it, a spokeswoman for Roberts said Friday."We'll have to read it first, but it's a good sign," Meghan Cline, Roberts' press secretary, said in an email.Earlier, Politico reported that Conaway and Peterson had come up with a joint offer. A spokeswoman for Conaway confirmed to DTN that an offer had been made to the Senate, but it is unclear if that proposal covered all 12 titles of the legislation.Peterson said the offer addresses the stiffer work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that are in the House bill but not the Senate bill, and that committee Democrats are "100 percent" behind it, according to the Politico report.

 
 

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