The Senate Agriculture Committee added a bundle of bipartisan amendments to the proposed GOP farm bill, addressing Food for Peace, hot rotisserie chicken, fertilizer and specialty crops. The en bloc approval came at the start of the Republican-led panel’s farm bill markup on Thursday. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who is out due to a health issue, is voting by proxy on amendments. The farm bill isn't currently expected to be approved due to partisan disagreement related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. “You and I believe that people that are actively engaged ought to be the only ones receiving farm payments, and we know when we give 70 percent of the farm payments to 10 percent of the biggest farmers in this country, we’re going way beyond what the safety net for farmers has been in the last 90 years.”