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Congress reaches farm bill agreement

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Anonymous

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Now Bush wants it so we can take US taxpayers money and subsidize Australian beef or Indias wheatfarmers- to give away to other needy countries :shock: :( :mad: :mad:

We can't get rid of this idiot fast enough........



Congress reaches farm bill agreement



By PHILIP BRASHER • Register Washington Bureau • May 7, 2008

Des Moines Register - Iowa



Washington, D.C. – Lawmakers headed toward a showdown with President Bush over their new farm bill after agreeing on final details of the legislation that maintains the existing system of crop subsidies.



Bush discussed the bill privately with leading Republican lawmakers Wednesday.



During the meeting, Bush did not explicitly threaten to veto the legislation, but “he made it clear he was still not there,” said Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. Bush and administration officials have raised a number of objections to the bill.



Goodlatte and other lawmakers said the bill should have strong support in both the House and Senate, but it would require a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override a veto.



Bush has said the bill is too costly and doesn’t go far enough to tighten income eligibility limits for wealthy recipients of farm subsidies. The administration also wanted the bill to liberalize rules for international food aid so that some commodities could be procured closer to where they are needed rather than being shipped from the United States.


“I’m still hopeful the president will sign this bill,” said Sen. Tom Harkin, the chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said after a two-hour meeting in the Capitol of the congressional negotiators who worked out the bill’s final details.



The lawmakers refused to disclose any details of the final agreement in advance of a news conference on Thursday.



They had been working to finalize new income caps for subsidy recipients. An earlier version would have allowed a couple with farm income of $1.9 million before their subsidies started phasing out.



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hypocritexposer

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Let me get this straight OT?

You don't like the imports, cause they are "lower priced and lower quality", bringing down the US domestic price.

And then when it is proposed to leave those domestic products at home and to fulfill humantarian needs with the lower priced foreign products, you complain also.

Which way would save the taxpayers more?
 
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hypocritexposer said:
Let me get this straight OT?

You don't like the imports, cause they are "lower priced and lower quality", bringing down the US domestic price.

And then when it is proposed to leave those domestic products at home and to fulfill humantarian needs with the lower priced foreign products, you complain also.

Which way would save the taxpayers more?

Then get it out of the FARM Bill.....The commodities and foreign aid programs in it were put in to shore up US agricultural prices- and use excess/surplus Ag products...

What happened to the GW that a few weeks ago was preaching that we should BUY AMERICAN :???: .....
 

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While lawmakers met privately in attempts to appease Bush, his administration worked to rally conservatives who oppose the Farm bill.

Grover Norquist, president of the anti-tax group Americans for Tax Reform, said an administration official criticized the bill at a breakfast attended by conservatives Wednesday morning. Another person who attended the meeting said the official was Deputy Agriculture Secretary Charles Conner, who said Bush was likely to veto the bill.

Norquist said a veto of the farm bill would be popular among the conservative ranks and could help the president solidify his party's position this November. Conservatives believe "this is a fight worth having," said Norquist.
 
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PORKER said:
Norquist said a veto of the farm bill would be popular among the conservative ranks and could help the president solidify his party's position this November. Conservatives believe "this is a fight worth having," said Norquist.


Well I talked to a lot of conservatives today that think Bush has lost his ever loving mind- with his sell out of the USA and American products and that his pork buy out shows the Corporate Interests (Tyson/etal) who own the pork industry is what he really only cares about :???: :roll: :( :mad:

And they are now questioning how Bush Jr. (McCain)- another corporate neocon- could further screw up this country
:???: :( :mad:

USDA buys $50 million of pork to aid farmers
By MEGGIE I. FOSTER
Assistant Editor

WASHINGTON, D.C. — USDA Secretary Ed Schafer recently announced the department’s plan to purchase nearly $50 million worth of pork products in a move to lend a helping hand to struggling American pork producers.

“The action by USDA to buy additional pork will benefit America’s pork producers, the U.S. economy and the people who rely on the government’s various food programs,” said National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) President Bryan Black, a pork producer from Canal Winchester, Ohio. “It will help our industry reduce the herd and thereby bring supply and demand back into balance and allow producers to continue to provide consumers with economical, nutritious pork.”

The grand supply of pork will be donated to child nutrition and other domestic food assistance programs, the USDA reported in its announcement on May 1.
 

PORKER

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Farm bill veto promised

Dan Looker
Successful Farming magazine Business Editor

5/08/2008, 6:19 PM CDT

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer told reporters Thursday that President George W. Bush will veto the farm bill, which drew an immediate reaction from some of the farm group leaders who had just announced the bill's completion.

"Like any compromise bill resulting from hard bargaining among regional and other interests, this farm bill is far from perfect. But no piece of legislation is perfect. It includes significant reforms..." said Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin in a statement. "It deserves the Presidents signature. Inexplicably, the White House seems intent on destroying the harvest just as the seeds are being planted."

Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND), Budget Committee Chairman and a key player on the Senate Agriculture Committee's farm bill drafting, also expressed disappointment.

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The Farm Bill would require a two-thirds majority in both chambers to override a veto. The House is viewed as less likely to override a veto. The 231-191 vote on the House version of the bill last summer fell well short of the two-thirds majority.

"The president might not only prevail on a veto ... but he might prevail in the court of public opinion," said Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization that shares some of Bush's objections to the bill.

Bush said the bill that negotiators were crafting was too costly and didn't go far enough to tighten income eligibility limits for wealthy recipients of farm subsidies. The administration also wanted the bill to liberalize rules for international food aid so that some commodities could be procured closer to where they are needed rather than being shipped from the United States.
 
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