This package of bills also includes three three year long appropriations bills that were passed by overwhelming margins, bipartisan margins, more than 80% votes in each case by the members of this Senate way back on August 1st. These bills are the agriculture bill, the agriculture FDA bill, which Senator Boozman chairs that subcommittee, and it includes funding for the SNAP program for the Women's Infants and Children's Nutrition Program, known as wic, for our farmers for Rural Development, for our rural communities throughout this country. A very important bill, a bill that will take away the worry that families who are low income, that seniors who are low income and rely upon the SNAP program … (03:22–03:58)
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