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McCain says he would veto farm bill Published: May 2, 2008 at 9:11 PM DES MOINES, Iowa, May 2 (UPI) -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told an audience of Iowans that if he were president, he would veto a farm subsidy bill now making its way through Congress. "I do not support it. I would veto it," McCain told the audience of about 250 people in Des Moines Thursday. "I would do that because I believe that these subsidies, the subsidies are unnecessary." The Republican Party's presumptive presidential nominee later told The Des Moines Register in an interview, "At this...

The U.S. government has set aside $1.123 billion to keep the National Guard on the border through September 2007, according to a Guard official. Since President Bush announced the guard's deployment in support of the Border Patrol, at least $225 million has been spent. The National Guard has helped build roads, extend and improve fencing and vehicle barriers, and even man lookout posts, but it does not have the authority to stop and detain illegal entrants. The cost is likely to continue beyond the current fiscal year as the Border Patrol encounters difficulty in finding, training and keeping agents, making...