| $2.8 billion in ag cuts stand firm |
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| Posted March 25, 2005, summarized
from original report on feedstuffs.com: The 2005 agriculture
budget will be $2.8 billion lighter as the Senate votes to keep the
deep cuts proposed by the Bush administration.
Republicans prevailed 54-46 after Senate Agriculture Committee chairman Saxby Chambliss (R., Ga.) pledged that cuts "would not change policy" -- an apparent reference to the President's proposal to cap farm program benefits at $250,000 per farm. The vote effectively banished an amendment that would have restored full funding to the ag budget. |
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