How To Use farm bill In A Sentence
- Typically, omnibus farm bills address a wide range of agriculture-related policies, thereby creating a coalition of otherwise diverse and sometimes even opposing interests in support of the legislation.
- He has a farm bill amendment ready that would phase out the peanut program over six years.
- The House Agriculture Committee held its third farm bill field hearings last week in Nebraska.
- The action occurred as the Senate voted 64-32 for a seven-year farm bill which would replace fixed-level crop subsidies with declining payments.
- In the U.S. Congress, the final Farm Bill enacted into law in 2008 banned the import of young dogs from foreign puppy mills -- stopping the long-distance transport of unweaned puppies from China, Mexico, Russia, and other countries. Michael Markarian: 400 Dogs in Wire Cages
- That's roughly four times the amount that was spent in 1996, the year the last farm bill - product of a Congress vocally committed to "getting government out of farming" - came into being.
- The Farm Bill does relink conservation requirements to the receipt of crop insurance premium subsidies.
- And keep in mind how we got here, an energy bill, a farm bill, a highway bill that is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and what "The Washington Post" called a pinata of pork. CNN Transcript Jul 28, 2008
- The president had an opportunity to exercise fiscal discipline by vetoing a farm bill that many people, including myself, felt was excessive.
- And what I'm saying is duplicitous about that is, at the same time, in the United States, only in the last few weeks, the farm bill was passed subsidizing American agricultural projects.