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...election-year farm bill didn't wean farmers off subsidies either; it was the most profligate yet. It created new "countercyclical payments" for bad times, while extending transitional payments for all times, renaming them "direct payments" so no one had to keep pretending they were temporary. Texas Republican Larry Combest--then chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, now another agribusiness lobbyist--threatened to block legislation enhancing Bush's power to negotiate trade deals if he didn't sign the farm bill. Bush signed...
...LARRY COMBEST (R) District 19 (Western Panhandle--parts of Lubbock and Amarillo...
...19th District is a mix of Old West machismo and Sun Belt sophistication--home to oil, Cowboy Mornings, agribusiness and Texas Tech. Like the district's economic prosperity, Combest's political success comes from expertise in old and new technologies: he was John Tower's agricultural-affairs specialist, is a member of the Agriculture Committee and chairman of the Select Intelligence Committee...
...wanting Larry Combest to be unopposed for the third time in the past six years, Sawyer, a public-health statistician, jumped into the fray. He urges citizens of this heavily agricultural district to take a hard look at what Republicans have not done for them, arguing that the kind of loose regulation that G.O.P. power brokers like Combest promote is a raw deal for farmers...
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