Guebert: There's nothing we won't do for cheaper food

Guebert: There's nothing we won't do for cheaper food

Two weeks after the U.S. House passed its "skinny" Farm Bill — the law's usual lard had been cut into last July's reconciliation bill — applause is still yet to be heard in either Washington, D.C. or rural America. One big reason might be exhaustion. After three years of pushing, fingerpointing, and arguing, Republican members of the House Ag Committee found a path to passage: Cut food assistance programs by $186 billion ("waste, fraud, and abus…