Fix the Farm Bill

Statement

The Farm Bill that passed the House by 2 votes in June included highly-publicized, unnecessary and objectionable cuts and changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Less noticed, but just as important, was the bill's rollbacks and cuts to a number of important environmental protection and conservation laws and programs that would badly impact public health. This week I joined with over 100 of my colleagues in a letter to the Farm Bill conference leaders outlining our objections to any conference report that would undermine investments in critical conservation programs or our nation's bedrock environmental laws. The anti-environment and health provisions range from eliminating drinking water protections to forestry management changes to disincentivizing farmers' conservation efforts. They should not be included in the final bill.

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