Senate panel fails to advance farm bill amid SNAP standoff, McConnell absence

The Senate Agriculture Committee failed to advance this year’s farm bill out of committee on Thursday amid Republican absences and unified Democratic opposition to the bill’s food aid provisions.  The vote failed 10-11 along party lines. Proxy votes from GOP Sens. Tommy Tuberville (Ala.) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.), who were both absent, did not count…

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