
Fred Business News -Farm bill redux
by
maba
on Fri 06 Jun 2008 06:00 PM EDT
Fred Business News -The White House is calling it "farm bill two - the sequel." And according to President Bush, the second one isn't any better than the first.
To assure that U.S. food aid abroad continues amid a global hunger crisis, Congress and Bush are again passing, vetoing and enacting a $290 billion bill for providing farm subsidies, food stamps and other nutrition programs over the next five years.
The Senate scheduled a second vote on the bill for Thursday, two weeks after the discovery that 34 ... more »