{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-joins-call-speaker-johnson-rework-farm-bill", "Rep. Stansbury Joins Call for Speaker Johnson to Rework Farm Bill", "2024-09-03", "2024", "2024-09", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) joined her Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus (DWC) colleagues on a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson urging him to revise the partisan farm bill that passed out of the House Committee on Agriculture, and work with House Democrats to pass a bipartisan farm bill that helps women, families, and farmers.\n\nThe Members warned that including cuts to food and nutrition assistance programs, including Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, in the farm bill could jeopardize its final passage, putting thousands of farmers and families in harm\u2019s way. The letter highlights the positive impact that SNAP has on women and families, emphasizing that the majority of the program\u2019s recipients are women and children, many in families experiencing poverty.\n\n\u201cH.R.8467, the \u2018Farm, Food, and National Security Act,\u2019 as passed out of Committee, would cut $30 billion in food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade, the largest cut to SNAP in nearly twenty years,\u201d DWC members wrote. \u201cThis would disproportionately impact women and children, who make up the vast majority of SNAP participants.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are committed to passing a farm bill that supports both our farmers and ranchers, and nutrition assistance for women and their families,\u201d the DWC members continued. \u201cWe look forward to working with you to address our concerns and deliver for women across the country.\u201d\n\nThis letter comes as the House prepares to return from their August district work period with a farm bill expiration date looming.\n\nRead the full letter here and below.\n\n____________________________________________________________\n\nDear Speaker Johnson,\n\nOn behalf of the Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus, we urge you to rework the partisan farm bill that passed out of the House Committee on Agriculture, and work with House Democrats to pass a bipartisan farm bill that truly helps women and families.\n\nH.R.8467, the \u201cFarm, Food, and National Security Act,\u201d as passed out of Committee, would cut $30 billion in food assistance from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over the next decade, the largest cut to SNAP in nearly twenty years. This would disproportionately impact women and children, who make up the vast majority of SNAP participants. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, in fiscal year 2022, 38 percent of SNAP recipients were adult women and 40 percent were children. Further, single mothers would be disproportionately impacted by cuts to SNAP benefits; the National Women\u2019s Law Center (NWLC) found that, from June 2020 through September 2020, 64 percent of SNAP households with children were headed by a single adult, 92 percent of which were headed by women.\n\nSNAP is an essential program that reduces rates of women\u2019s poverty; according to the NWLC, SNAP helped 1.2 million women escape poverty in 2021. It is a critical tool for addressing poverty and hunger in our country. We cannot leave our most vulnerable behind.\n\nIncluding cuts to SNAP benefits in the farm bill undermines the inclusion of any other positive advancements and could jeopardize final passage of the bill, putting farmers and families in harm\u2019s way. We are committed to passing a farm bill that supports both our farmers and ranchers, and nutrition assistance for women and their families.\n\nWe look forward to working with you to address our concerns and deliver for women across the country.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-joins-call-speaker-johnson-rework-farm-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9430230129510164, "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"}