CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings June 21, 2013
republicans who voted against the bill object defending the measure. we spoke to a capitol hill reporter about what happened. >> the farm bill -- why was it defeated? >> there are basically two reasons. that is there was a dairy amendment that was not ok with democrats, and that dairy amendment passed. also there were restrictions placed on food stamps and democrats did not like that, and there were a lot of republicans who thought they could somehow have a bill that would cut food stamps even more. >> eric cantor blamed democrats for not providing enough votes to help pass the bill....
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