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Posted on 01/25/2014 4:12:23 AM PST by SkyPilot
Members of Congress have been alerted that a deal on the $1 trillion farm bill, stalled for the last three years, could come on Monday, allowing for a House floor vote next week.
The alert went out from the House Agriculture Committee to members of the farm bill conference committee requesting that they return to town by Monday for action on the stalled legislation. "Conversations are ongoing and we remain optimistic that we can reach agreement in time to be on the floor next week," the alert stated.
It said that Monday could feature a conference meeting to vote on unresolved issues or a Republican conference meeting to sign the conference report. Either scenario would lead to a bill being filed with the Rules Committee by Monday night in order to allow a Wednesday vote under the House three-day layover rule.
Final issues in the farm bill have included how to structure dairy subsidies and how to deal with payment limits for subsidy and loan deficiency payments to farmers.
On dairy, both sides are trying to find a way to provide profit margin insurance without including limits on production that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) adamantly opposes.
A compromise being worked on could include using insurance premium increases to discourage the kind of overproduction that can cause milk prices to crash and insurance payouts to spiral upward.
On payment limits, the House and Senate-passed bills lower caps on farm subsidies and tighten what critics like Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) call a massive loophole that currently makes the caps meaningless.
Under the pre-conference bills, individuals can receive no more than $50,000 in subsidies and $75,000 in loan deficiency payments on marketing loans. For a couple, that adds up to a $250,000 cap.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
My Reagan story. I was in a ladies card room picking up empties while everybody else was outside in a huge tent. Reagan was the main speaker that day. There was a French door that led to a driveway in the room I was in. Storm had come up and it was pouring rain. A limo pulled up and 2 or 3 secret service rushed in the door, looked around and backed me up to a wall with their arms in front of me. I saw someone get out of the limo and start toward the door with a trench coat pulled up over their head so I couldn’t see who it was. He came in, lowered the trench coat, shook like a dog and looked up at me with a huge smile and said.....nice day, huh? Then they rushed out.
Robin Williams was at one of his step parents birthday parties. Didn’t even realize it was him. Just knew he was familiar. We told him that and he said well I’m Robin Williams. We looked at him and said...Nuh uh. He laughed and said.....really. Then pulled out his drivers license to prove it. Lol. He was absolutely nothing like on stage. He was calm and friendly but kind of reserved that night. Maybe it was the function he was at. Mostly just family and friends.
Eddy Munster is a congressman. That’s how low we’ve fallen.
I have to admit I’d love to see someone in the military arresting these crooks. It seems that’s the only hope for this nation. And it will never happen. Not in a good way.
Corporate handouts, ethonol subsidies and food stamps
Of course the Republican House will love them some of that.
*argh*
How about we just stop subsidizing food completely? Let’s get rid of the sugar tariff as well.
We have a $205 trillion debt, net of all taxes. See here:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/01/laurence_kotlik.html
ethanol subsidies???????????? .........gone bout’ 2 yrs ago.
Mandate to use instead of pollutant MTBE in place, but no worse than 50 yr old mandate to keep military in Middle east.
No GI has had to die for a gallon of ethanol........
In Washington County, Iowa, for example, farmers with access to an unusual and lucrative combination of federal, state and utility incentives were anticipating payback periods of as little as two years, according to Ed Raber, director of the county’s economic development corporation.
http://www.midwestenergynews.com/2014/01/27/in-the-midwest-farmers-leading-the-way-on-solar-power/
WOOHOO! farm pimps rejoice!
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