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By Bart Mills, The Lima News, Ohio May 16--LIMA -- The $290 billion farm bill finally passed the House and Senate, but that doesn't mean the debate has ended. The Senate approved the bill 81-15 Thursday, just a day after the House gave it overwhelming approval.
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Crop the Crap
An unacceptable farm bill. By Brian Riedl With food prices soaring, it takes some gall to force Americans to pay billions of dollars to millionaire agribusinesses. Yet instead of cutting, Congress’s answer is to harvest even more farm subsidies. Although the same farmers already receive massive...
BRIAN RIEDL: Harvesting even more farm subsidies
With food prices soaring, it takes some gall to force Americans to pay billions of dollars to millionaire agribusinesses. Yet instead of cutting, Congress's answer is to harvest even more farm subsidies. Although the same farmers already receive massive annual subsidies, plus taxpayer-funded crop...
MILWAUKEE JOUNAL SENTINEL: A missed opportunity
Welfare as we knew it ended years ago. But not for farmers. Congress has passed wasteful legislation that will set farm policy on the wrong course for five more years. The $290 billion farm bill, which passed the House on Wednesday and sailed through the Senate on Thursday, comes as farm income...
Benjamin R. Barber: Farm Bill Baloney
May 16, 2008 The presidential candidates in the endless primary go on about leadership and unity and change and experience, but meanwhile in Congress its politics as usual. I.e., bipartisan pandering to special interests. That's right, here comes the Farm Bill - a whopping $300 billion plus...
A Missed Opportunity
The following editorial appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday, May 16: ___ Welfare as we knew it ended years ago. But not for farmers. Congress has passed wasteful legislation that will set farm policy on the wrong course for five more years.
Farm bill: reform needed
Very good article by Mike Lillis (he’s been doing a lot of them, eh?) in the Washington Independent. Interesting that, from my point of view, the White House is on the right side of this issue. The article begins: Millionaire farmers will continue getting taxpayer subsidies, sugar producers will...
Senate Sends Farm Bill to President
WASHINGTON (UPI via COMTEX) -- The U.S. Senate passed a $307 billion farm bill Thursday in a veto-proof 81-15 vote. President George W. Bush is expected to veto the measure, The New York Times reported. But the five-year measure passed the House 318-106 Wednesday, more than enough support an...
Farm bill gets bad reviews
by Frank James The just-passed farm bill, which is valued at $290 billion to $307 billion, depending on who's counting, is taking some heavy flak from the city slickers who comprise the editorial pages of some of the nation's largest newspapers. The biggest complaint? it subsidizes wealthy...
Farm bill gets bad reviews
by Frank James The just-passed farm bill, which is valued at $290 billion to $307 billion, depending on who's counting, is taking some heavy flak from the city slickers who comprise the editorial pages of some of the nation's largest newspapers. The biggest complaint? it subsidizes wealthy...
Congress finally passes veto-proof farm bill
Defying President Bush's veto threat, the Senate joined the House Thursday in voting "yay" on the $289 billion omnibus legislation that covers everything from farm subsidies to food stamps. In both chambers, support for the bill tallied strong enough to override Bush's threatened veto. The...
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