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WASHINGTON, D. C.: The Senate passed a landmark farm bill that would roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. "This is a complete departure from the past," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. Passed on a 74 to 26 vote, the far-reaching House- Senate compromise plan is expected to win House approval before Congress leaves for a two-week recess March 30. Although President Clinton says he has some reservations about the bill, he is expected to sign it. The measure would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports...
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WASHINGTON, D. C.: On a 270-155 vote, the House Thursday passed its version of the "Freedom to Farm" bill, a major piece of agriculture legislation with the potential to roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. House leaders had limited the number of amendments to speed passage, but TIME's Karen Tumulty reports from Washington that the House bill is so different from the version passed February 7 by the Senate that the conference committee could spend many weeks hammering out the details. In an effort to work out one difference in advance, House members killed...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: As Congress quietly returned to work this week after a three-week vacation, the House advanced its version of the "Freedom to Farm" bill, a major piece of agriculture legislation with the potential to roll back crop-subsidy programs born in the Great Depression. The bill would wean wheat, corn and cotton farmers off the current system of crop supports by replacing it with a seven-year program of declining, fixed payments. Subsidies of peanuts and sugar remain in place, to the chagrin of some members on both sides of the aisle. House leaders have limited...