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Bush Vetoes Farm Bill, House Overrides
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President Bush vetoed the long-embattled 2007 farm bill Wednesday, saying it provides subsidies for farmers at a time of record crop prices, increases farm spending by $20 billion and uses 'budget gimmicks to hide much of that increase.' Within hours, in a show of bipartisan defiance, the House overwhelmingly overrode his veto of the nearly $300-billion bill, 316 to 108. (Los Angeles Times [1], Thursday)
Congressional shamelessness.
FEE Timely Classic
Ending Farm Subsidies Wouldn't Help the Third World? It Just Ain't So! [2] by E. C. Pasour, Jr.
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[1] Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-farmbill22-2008may22,0,7191877.story
[2] Ending Farm Subsidies Wouldn't Help the Third World? It Just Ain't So!: http://www.fee.org/Publications/the-Freeman/article.asp?aid=4674
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