WASHINGTON, DC _ The House passed the Farm, Food, and National Security Act on a 224-200 vote after two days of debate and a final round of amendment fights that reshaped the bill. The vote showed leadership held together a narrow coalition, with 14 Democrats supporting the measure and 3 Republicans voting no.
The final floor action on “The Farm Bill” made clear which issues the House was willing to embrace and which it rejected. Lawmakers approved the Crawford amendment to allow hot rotisserie chicken under SNAP and adopted the Luna amendment to strike pesticide-labeling uniformity and related state-authority language from the bill.
The House also adopted amendments to require a USDA report on SNAP restriction pilots, remove emissions mandates on farm equipment, ban purchases of agricultural land by foreign adversaries and state sponsors of terrorism, and establish honey testing standards.
Other high-profile proposals failed. The House rejected the Bentz amendment to broaden the Renewable Fuel Standard definition of renewable biomass, the Grothman amendment to repeal the interstate EID ear tag rule, the Moore amendment on greyhound racing, and the Self amendment to make soda ineligible for SNAP.
The result gives the House a passed bill, but not a finished farm bill. The debate showed the coalition can hold long enough to pass the package, though only after lawmakers cut away several of the most divisive proposals.
Farm-Level Takeaway: The House passed the farm bill, but key amendment votes showed where support was strongest and where lawmakers drew clear limits.