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House seeks one-week farm bill extension



(4/16/2008)
Sally Schuff

The House of Representatives is set to act this morning on a one-week extension of the 2002 Farm Bill. The extension was placed on the House "suspension" calendar this morning. The 2002 Farm Bill officially expires on Friday and House ag committee leaders agree that the House-Senate conference negotiators cannot produce a final product but that time. Additionally the House is not expected to be in session on Friday. Negotiators from the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee were unable to reach an agreement Tuesday afternoon on budget savings to pay for $10 billion in farm bill spending. Yesterday, House and Senate conferees adopted the new farm bill's credit, research and trade titles, but a few issues remain to be resolved on the trade portion. The conference resumes this afternoon at 1:30 p.m. EDT.
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