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Senate Moves Towards a Farm Bill Conference
2013-07-22 20:42:00| National Hog Farmer
By P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, DC The U.S. Senate took the necessary procedural steps to be able to move forward to get the Senate-passed farm bill to conference. By unanimous consent, the Senate sent its five-year farm bill back to the House of Representatives and requested a farm bill conference. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee is expected to name the 12 Senate conferees (seven Democrats and five Republicans) in the near future. read more
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