Framing the Farm Bill
：Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014
Publication subTitle ：Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014
Author： Bosso > Christopher J.
Publisher： University Press of Kansas
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9780700624218
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780700624201
Subject： D034 State institutions;D52 世界政治制度与国家机构
Keyword： 世界政治制度与国家机构,国家体制,政治、法律,法律
Language： ENG
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Description
In January 2014, for the first time in the history of federal farm legislation going back to the Great Depression, all four members of the US House of Representatives from Kansas voted against the Farm Bill, despite pleas by the state's agricultural leaders to support it. Why? The story of the Agricultural Act of 2014, as it unfolds in Framing the Farm Bill, has much to tell us about the complex nature of farm legislation, food policy, and partisan politics in present-day America.
The Farm Bill is essential to the continuation of the many programs that structure agriculture in this country, from farm loans, commodity subsidies, and price supports for farmers to food support for the poor, notably food stamps. It was in the 1970s, with urbanization increasingly undermining political interest in farm programs, that rural legislators added the food stamp program to the Farm Bill to build support among urban and suburban legislators. Christopher Bosso offers a deft account of how this strategy, which over time led to the food stamp program becoming the largest expenditure in the Farm Bill, ran into the wave of conservative Republicans swept into Congress in 2010. With many of these new members objecting to the very existence of the food stamp program—and in many cases to government’s involvement in agriculture, period—and with Democrats vehemently opposing reductions, especially in light of the 2008 recession, the stage was set for a battle involvi
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