On a vote of 251-166, the U.S. House voted on and passed a $956.4 billion-a-year farm bill that contains a cut-back of $9 billion to the SNAP, or food stamp program over ten years.

The bill will cut $800 million-a-year from the program, Republicans had wanted a cut that was five times as large. This is still twice the amount that the Senate wanted to cut from the program, the Senate version of the bill cut only $400 million a year. Urban liberals opposed the bill, saying that the cuts to the food stamp program went way too far.

103 Democrats voted against the bill, as did 63 Republicans. Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor came out in support of the bill, which resulted in no Republican debate against it as it sped its way through the House.

Massachusetts Representative said about the House bill, “This bill will make hunger worse in America, not better, if this bill passes, thousands and thousands of low-income Americans will see their already meager food benefit shrink.”

The farm bill, now over two years late, was introduced in the House on Monday, and the nearly 1,000 page document will now go to the Senate where it is likely to pass by Friday. The White House said that if the bill reaches the president’s desk in its present form, he will sign it.