{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-submits-five-amendments-farm-bill", "Rep. Omar Submits Five Amendments to the Farm Bill", "2026-04-30", "2026", "2026-04", "Democrat", "House", "MN", "Ilhan Omar", "O000173", "omar.house.gov", "omar", "https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced five amendments to the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026. This bill fails to address the rapidly growing affordability crisis facing American workers, families, and farmers. This bill retains Republicans\u2019 $187 billion cut to SNAP in last year\u2019s reconciliation bill, leaving over 40 million Americans without the support they need to put food on the table.\n\nCongresswoman Omar\u2019s amendments aim to combat hunger here in the United States and abroad, ensure workers\u2019 safety in meat processing facilities, and invest in sustainable farming practices.\n\n\u201cThe Farm Bill that Republicans have put in front of us today completely misses the mark in addressing the needs of working people,\u201d said Rep. Omar. \u201cI introduced five amendments to reform our agriculture and nutrition policies to guarantee that no child goes hungry at school, prioritize workers\u2019 safety in food processing industries, and ensure we\u2019re doing all we can to end hunger here at home and end the global food crisis. It is shameful that Republicans completely abandoned vulnerable children and families in this bill. I will always put working families over big corporations looking to profit at the expense of the American people. I could not in good conscience vote for this bill.\u201d\n\nThe amendments introduced by Rep. Omar include:\n\nOmar #297 - Prohibits school lunch shaming.\n\nOmar #306 - Establishes a universal school meals program.\n\nOmar #340 - Categorizes controlled-environment agriculture, including vertical farming, as a high-priority research area.\n\nOmar #355 - Blocks two proposed rules that would raise line speed limits in poultry processing facilities and remove line speed limits in pork processing facilities entirely, and prohibits substantially similar rules in the future.\n\nOmar #366 - Doubles the funding for Food for Peace.\n\nThe full text of the amendments is available here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-06-26T06:29:35Z", "2026-06-26T06:31:46Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-omar-submits-five-amendments-farm-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.134286168962717, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}