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...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 by replacing it with a seven- year program of declining, fixed payments. "This bill, for all of the huffing and puffing of those who support it, basically pulls the safety net out from under family farmers," said North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan...
...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 legislation that would have greatly benefited dairy farmers by requiring that milk be thickened with dairy solids. 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. "If the bill were to play out as advertised...
...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 the number of amendments...
...wife made that argument. She's been trying to wean me from total dependence on the Republican presidential campaign as a news diet. Whenever she hears Lamar Alexander say it's all going to be over by March 12, she sees me on March 13 wandering around like a zombie, mumbling the planks of Morry Taylor's platform as part of some kooky mantra...
...some viewers that's entertainment. To others it's idiocy. To former Education Secretary William Bennett, it's cause for alarm. Bennett and C. DeLores Tucker, noted gangsta-rap haters, have joined with Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Sam Nunn of Georgia in a campaign to wean Americans off what they call "cultural...