This MN league hosted Duane Horvorka, Sr Policy Specialist for the National Wildlife Federation and lobbyist working on the Farm Bill. The video is approximately 1 hour 10 minutes.  This league is overwhelmed to have 80 pre-register.

 

The Farm Bill is revisited every 5 year-end accounts for billions in spending. The national league LWVUS joined 650 other groups with a letter to Congress urging support for Environmental Investments. The nutritional portion of the 2018 bill was 76% of the whole and this is mostly to fund SNAP. The current bill may contain well over 80% nutritional projects and the total is expected to exceed $1trillion.

LWV Upper Mississippi Rivers shares video of Farm Bill briefing

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