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WASHINGTON--Both houses of Congress overwhelmingly approved some $6 billion in aid for drought-stricken farmers yesterday after scaling back provisions for special assistance to milk producers and ethanol fuel makers...
...Senate, Sen. Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) scaled back his plan to allow U.S. ethanol fuel makers to buy up to 2 million bushels each every month of government surplus corn. Ethanol is a fuel based partly on alcohol produced from corn and other commodities...
Under Daschle's plan, ethanol makers would be able to purchase the corn at 110 percent of the government's acquisition price. Much of the corn in Agriculture Department bins now was acquired long before the drought sent crop prices skyrocketing...
...emerged from the session expressing concern over duty-free imports of ethanol from the Caribbean and saying "what I needed was the president's assurance that the Administration was going to introduce another bipartisan bill that could be quickly passed by the Congress and signed...
...alcohol takes the worst toll on the liver, where most of the ethanol in the bloodstream is broken down. Because alcohol is so high in calories (there are 110 calories per jigger of 90-proof liquor), the liver metabolizes it instead of important nutrients, a phenomenon that can lead to severe malnutrition. The high caloric content of ethanol also causes fat to build up in the liver, one of the earliest stages of alcoholic liver disease. This is frequently followed by scarring of the liver tissue, which interferes with the organ's task of filtering toxins from the blood...