i will be right back. the houses back next week to debate a number of bills related to law enforcement coinciding with the national police week. pick up a they will five-year farm bill which includes new requirements for food stamp recipients. in the senate, republicans will hear from the president at their weekly party conference went on tuesday where he is expected talk about the economy and his upcoming reader with the north korean leader. floor, senators will consider more of the president's circuit court nominees. it is also possible they will take up a disapproval resolution to reverse the net neutrality

decision. as always, follow the house live on c-span and the senate live on c-span two. >> kathryn boudreau joins us. she is a reporter for politico. key details of the farm bill and how long is this authorization for federal farm program funding? >> the bulk of the sweeping legislation is geared toward the supplemental nutrition assistance program. this is certainly the most controversial aspect of getting the farm bill pass. nutrition accounts for 80% of this bill so the chairman has proposed imposing stricter work retirements between five and seven million people that are able bodied adults and enrolled

in the snap program and then of course, the other 20 percent of the farm bill is spent on commodity subsidies for farmers, also crop insurance programs that they pay into but their premiums are subsidized so that is where the government comes in. then that pays out when there is a disaster, like hurricanes or wildfires that we saw last year. of course, there is also assistance with implementing land conservation practices and funding for rural development. those are really key aspects of the farm bill. >> you mentioned snap of course, the food stamps program and the fact that the farm bill usually gets quite a bit of bipartisan support. but the food stamps are something that seems to be splitting the parties mostly along party lines. tell us more about this issue. catherine: certainly, yes. the snap program has 42 million recipients. and house agriculture chairman conaway wants to have stricter work requirements on a subset of the people on the program.

between five and 7 million people would be subject to the stricter work requirements. they would have to work at least 20 hours a week or be enrolled in a job-training program and states would be required, mandated, that is new, to offer spots and job-training programs. of course it is very expensive. they would save probably $9 billion over 10 years on food stamp benefits and then some of that money would be spent going towards the state work program. but that is pretty controversial because i think that there is a lack of data on the success of the state work programs and they estimate it would take upwards of a decade to get this up and running and be able to offer all of the spots required. democrats have rejected this proposal pretty much. during the committee, they did not vote for it at all. it was advanced on party lines.

usually the farm bill is passed with this coalition with rural democrats and republicans. also lawmakers who do care about the snap program but not necessarily have farmers in the district, so that seems to be broken and i think we can expect that the farm bill will have to be passed in the house with mostly gop members. >> let's take a quick look at your article. the headline conaway races to nail down farm bill votes before the house floor debate. as you mentioned they will need some support from mostly republicans. how exactly does that break down? democrats have been pushing their members to oppose it. what are republicans saying to their team? catherine: house leadership is certainly selling this as a way to get a component of overhaul welfare programs. something to energize the midterms. we get that is not just falling

on deaf years but taking a bit of persuasion to get the gop on board. and some members of the house caucus on thursday spoke to the chairman, he says there are concerns about the work requirements of snap and has concerns about the agricultural components of it. the dairy program and there are small dairy producers in his district. i think they're looking to offer some amendments to the bill . they want to be able to offer this amendment in order to have greater support in favor of the bill and i mean it is possible that rural democrats could peel off and vote for it but i think it remains to be seen and is hard to gauge at this point. of course there are members of the republican committee and some persuading as well. it is something that the chairman mike conaway is working on throughout the weekend because the boat is coming up pretty quick next week. >> and president trump hosted a meeting at the white house recently with both the house and the senate agriculture committee chair.

also agricultural secretary. what came out of that and do you think that the house and maybe later the senate version would change? because of the white house meeting? catherine: i think that the white house meeting between chairman conaway and that roberts and secretary purdue, they were talking farm bill specific and interactive. they said trump didn't talk but the veto threat, which was walked back by the white house director of legislative affairs. and then conaway after the meeting, said that some of the. work requirements and that is some of the pressure for the gop in the house. at the end of the day, the house and senate farm bill does need to go to conference.

it will be interesting to see whether that version can get back to the house because you know, the senate has, the chairman has said he is not interested in doing a large overhaul of snap because it would be extremely challenging to get 60 votes for something. that he's not interested in doing a large overhaul. be challenging to get 60 votes for something like that. o that begs the question, if conway is having support getting trouble for this version which is the most conservative it will be can he get a more moderate ersion through the house once it's conferenced. of course, democrats will probably have to come on-board and his oint relationship on the committee has been sour throughout the process. a lot of questions about how before, and also, what

of the white house is. trump to as asked tweet the bill. catherine, we'll keep following you on twitter and website, thanks so much. thanks, stephani. copyright national cable satellite corp 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, for its responsible caption content and accuracy. ncicap..org]

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