Farm Bill Markup This Week

The House Agriculture Committee will markup the farm bill this week, beginning late Tuesday afternoon. Lawmakers were scheduled to begin the process last week, but it was postponed due to the East Coast snowstorm. House Agriculture Committee Chair Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson is promoting the bill as a bipartisan piece of legislation. “Of the 181 bills that influenced H.R. 7567, 82 percent had bipartisan co-sponsors,” was part of a committee news release. “This is a bipartisan farm bill and calling it anything else is a serious mischaracterization of the facts.”