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Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball With Chris Matthews, Representative Steve Israel (D., N.Y.) expressed incredulity at yesterday’s defeat of the omnibus agriculture bill in the GOP-led House: “We had a — what should have been a — noncontroversial farm bill, that should’ve passed with a bipartisan majority. They [Republicans] managed to take a bipartisan farm bill and turn it into a partisan mess that failed. I cannot imagine what they’re going to do with a controversial immigration bill!” The New York Democrat, who chairs his party’s congressional campaign committee, voted against the bill.