On his show CBS's Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer said the farm bill is 'like welfare for the wealthy' in a question to Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) Schieffer: House farm bill 'like welfare for the wealthy'

CBS "Face the Nation" host Bob Schieffer on Sunday took a swipe at the farm bill passed by the House earlier this month for giving money to large corporations while failing to include nutrition assistance.

It's “almost like welfare for the wealthy, but you don’t include a dollar for hungry people for food stamps. What kind of message is that?” he asked his guest Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.).

Kelly defended the House plan to pass the bill in separate parts, saying they had tried to put a bigger piece of legislation together, but couldn’t reach an agreement and had been forced to go another route.

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Asked by Schieffer if the money would still come, he said “absolutely."

“I have never talked to one person who said we do not want to take care of the most vulnerable,” he said.

“What bothers me is that one in six Americans is on this program,” he said. “We’re wasting billions on a program that’s not lifting people from poverty, but keeping them in.”

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), also a guest on "Face the Nation," scoffed at Kelly’s suggestion that food stamps were working to keep people down.

“It’s because their wages and incomes are so low," Durbin said. "They’re working but they can’t feed their children. It isn’t a matter of defrauding American tax payers.”