Fresh Produce Discussion Blog

Created by The Packer's National Editor Tom Karst

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Back to Chairman Peterson

Can House Agriculture Committee Chair Collin Peterson work his Jedi master will over the Senate and deliver a farm bill by next week? In a teleconference today, Peterson said he and Goodlatte had found an offset (credit card reporting guidelines) as a way to find about $5 billion over baseline for farm bill funding. What's more, while the White House isn't doing back flips, the offset isn't a deal breaker, either. Things are looking up....

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At April 11, 2008 at 6:58:00 AM CDT , Anonymous Anonymous said...

It would be another lesson learned if the hill tried to veto a bill from the last plantation in the federal government.

 

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