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The House Committee on Agriculture and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry issued their frameworks for the 2024 Farm Bill on May 1, 2024. The House approach...

Is 5% really the kind of relief that the american people need? >> no, we need universal coverage and im proud of our state that has done less squabbling in getting things done and im proud were the first state to offer a publicly sanctioned offer of health care to our citizens. im also proud that we didnt stop there. were also the first state that has taken care of our ld elders our seniors. we have a looming retirement wave coming up. im proud our state made them eligible to retire in dignity. ...

Basic rights. if you want to get something done, just tell me its impossible. as a trefreshman senator, i was told you couldnt repeal dont ask, dont tell. even members of my own party told me it wasnt convenient. when are civil rights ever convenient? we stood up to the pentagon and got it done, not impossible. ten years ago, i was told you couldnt pass health care for our 9/11 first responders. those heroes who raced up the towers when others were coming down, even when congress turned its back...

>> shepard: we have mitten covering extensively the 9/11 victims compensation fund bill. its been renamed to include two more heroes who devoted their lives to helping others. the bill originally owner the nypd detectives who died from cancer and other health problems related to his time at ground zero. it will now include the firefighter ray pfeiffer in the late nypd d detective luis alva alvarez. both fought cancer tied to ground zero and both spent their final months traveling to washington a...

Bill permanent. because if we have things sun setting all over the place, that wont worked for-to-gr to glow econo grow the economy. >> dont you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficitthe econom. >> dont you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficiteconomy. >> dont you get the sense that they are trying to craft something that gets over the $1.5 trillion deficit>> dont y they are trying to...

They told all of their conference its exactly the same as what was amended at the end that failed last month. but when we looked at the bill, because we actually do read the bills, and we found in there that they essentially made this permanent law. all the bill before it was expiring in 2018. actually this is going to be the law of the land in perpetuity. >> wait a second. youre telling me a month ago they had those provisions that were going to sunset. voted on today, told their own caucus the...

Im sure everyone would love a federal subsidized insurance on their income to make sure from year to year if there was a disruption, they would not lose too much. >> absolutely. then what made this bill, the one they rolled out at 8:00 p.m. last night -- >> 600-page bill they rolled out at 8:00 p.m. and voted on today. let me be clear about this. a 600-page bill they rolled out at 8:00 p.m. yesterday and voted on today. yes. >> absolutely. they told all of their conference its exactly the same a...