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  remaking the House Ag committee

  (The above comment, reproduced below, was in fact by PhillyProf, a political scientist who happens to be married to Tom Laskawy of Beyond Green, and who mistakenly posted while he was logged in.  Oops!)

  This is a really good point, and one that I haven't heard elsewhere.  I also think that one of Pollan's other suggestions, to delink food stamps from agriculture, is a HORRIBLE idea.  Talk about an invitation to kill one of the only effective anti-poverty policies we have left...Not that the program couldn't be improved by making it something more than a repository for surplus ag commodities -- I remember with loathing those 10-gal tubs of crunchy peanut butter and 5-lb blocks of white cheese that we got at my summer day camp as part of the subsidized food program!  But it's hard to imagine food stamp funding faring better in the long term under HELP than it does under Ag.On Trying to restructure the House Agriculture Committee might not be worth it posted 10 months, 2 weeks ago 3 Responses