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Mike Rogers: “We are going to have to start getting on the floor and…”

Featuring: Mike Rogers, Republican | U.S. House Alabama, District 3

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Published | Video Starts at 07:12

50% of the farm bill was food stamps, 50% was farm programs. Again, you go fast forward 50 years, 45, 50 years, and now it's 80, 20. We are going to have to start getting on the floor and separating the two [food stamps and farm programs]. and seeing who is really a friend of farm programs by putting the farm programs on the floor standalone to see who votes for them and who votes against them. (07:12–07:18)

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Asserts the need to separate food stamps and farm programs in legislative discussions.

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