Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) last week dropped his support for creating a select committee on last year's attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Mica added his name to the resolution calling for a select committee in late March. But last Thursday, he asked that his name be removed from that resolution, which was introduced by Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.).

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said the House farm bill cuts to food stamps, also called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), could not pass in the Senate.

“We shouldn’t be cutting federal nutrition programs,” Brown said Monday. “[The Senate] bill cuts $4 billion from SNAP and that’s already $4 billion too much. … The House’s $20 billion in SNAP cuts won’t pass muster in the Senate and certainly won’t get my support.”

The farm bill, which came to the Senate floor on Monday, cuts less from farm subsidies than Obama wants.

Freshman Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) on Monday said efforts to force the Boy Scouts of America to allow gay members into the group shows that the left is "intolerant" and won't rest until it "bullies" that group and others to accept its views.

"Some of us in America still believe in the concept of sexual morality, that sex is intended for one man and one woman within the institution of marriage," Bridenstine said on the House floor. "Organizations that hold this philosophy and promote it among our youth should be commended, or at least, you would think, tolerated.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) applauded the bipartisan work of the Senate Agriculture Committee for passing out a farm bill, which the Senate will begin considering at 3 p.m. Monday.

“American farmers are counting on us but so is the economy,” Reid said on the Senate floor Monday. “To keep America and farms strong the Congress must pass a strong farm bill.”

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said he would introduce an amendment to the farm bill this week that would stop farmers from using harmful genetically modified seeds from the major seed producer, Monsanto.

Merkley said the Monsanto Protection Act was tucked into the continuing resolution passed in March to avert a government shutdown. He vowed that his amendment would repeal the “unacceptable” law.

“The Monsanto Protection Act is an outrageous example of a special interest loophole,” Merkley said Monday. “This provision nullifies the actions of a court that is enforcing the law to protect farmers, the environment and public health. That is unacceptable.”

Democrats in the House and Senate are looking to stop what they say are deceptive advertising practices by anti-abortion health clinics that imply they offer abortion services, but instead encourage birth and promote adoption.

The legislation is aimed at crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), which are clinics often set up by a church or other anti-abortion groups. Democrats in Congress and other pro-abortion groups say these clinics are known to indicate they can perform abortions in order to attract pregnant women patients, and then try to convince them to carry their babies to term.

The Senate will again fight over sugar subsidies while considering a farm bill this week.

A bipartisan group of senators have introduced an amendment to S. 954, which would spend $955 billion to fund agriculture programs for five years.

Legislation offered by Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) would suspend audits for 180 days.