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....

1 comment:

  1. 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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