WASHINGTON — The Latest on the farm bill (all times local):6:10 p.m. The House has voted decisively to leave the government’s much-criticized sugar program alone. Thursday’s 278-137 vote gave the nation’s powerful sugar lobby an easier-than-expected victory over food processors, soft drink manufacturers and candy makers who complain that the sugar program drives up prices and gouges consumers. The sugar program is part of an amalgam of commodity support programs that have sweeping backing in Republican-leaning farm country. Meadows says that “the time is now” to deal with immigration and that the farm bill doesn’t face a pressing deadline.

Source: National Post May 17, 2018 21:25 UTC