with any stop gap measures like last year. the speaker should have known he couldn t pass what amounts to a partisan love note to the tea party. the speaker should dispose of the drama and delay. i want everyone within the sound of my voice to know the senate will not pass another temporary farm bill extension. but your voice is so quiet, harry. reid and other senate democrats are urging the house to vote on the senate version of the bill but the two bills differ significantly in just how much pain they inflict on the poor. the senate s $955 billion bill included $3.9 billion in cuts to food stamps over the next ten years. meanwhile, the house s $939 billion bill called for $20.5 billion in food stamp cuts over ten years. a cut so draconian it would throw 1.8 million people off of food stamps, mostly children and seniors. but house republicans don t seem eager to take up the senate bill. by the looks of it, they d