The House Agriculture Committee hosted a hearing on farm financial conditions Tuesday, but the session started with a spirited exchange over the farm bill. Chairman Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson defended the farm bill that passed out of his committee in late May. “I would not apologize for advancing a bill that seeks to put the farm back in the farm bill and I also won’t apologize for advancing a bill that was written by every member of this committee,” said Thompson. “Forty provisions that were put into this that were just led by my Democratic colleagues and I don’t put things in legislation just to buy a vote, I put it in there because it was great legislation.” Thompson also challenged Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow to unveil her farm bill text and not what he called “a partisan 90-page summary.”
