VIDEO: Senate Passes Five-Year Farm Bill

The U.S. Senate approved a five-year agreement on farm policy, ending a nearly three-year slog in Congress to overhaul agriculture policy and food-stamp funding. Jerry Seib reports on the News Hub. Photo: AP.

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VIDEO: Senate Passes Five-Year Farm Bill

Congress approves five-year farm bill

The bill should generate about $ 23 billion in 10-year-savings. | AP Photo
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The long-tortured farm bill cleared Congress Tuesday, ending a two year struggle that split the old farm-food coalition as never before and dramatized the growing isolation of agriculture and rural America in…
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VIDEO: Senate Passes Five-Year Farm Bill

The U.S. Senate approved a five-year agreement on farm policy, ending a nearly three-year slog in Congress to overhaul agriculture policy and food-stamp funding. Jerry Seib reports on the News Hub. Photo: AP.

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Senate sends farm bill to Obama

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FILE – In this Oct. 16, 2013 file photo, Larry Hasheider walks along one of his corn fields on his farm in Okawville, Ill. Cuts in food stamps, continued subsidies to farmers and victories for animal rights advocates. The massive farm bill heading toward final passage this week has…
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New farm bill readied for final debate

The bill should generate about $ 24 billion in 10-year savings. | AP Photo
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After a two-year struggle and more perils than “Downton Abbey,” Congress should see a new farm bill this week as House-Senate negotiators worked through the weekend in hopes of filing the legislation by Monday …
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New farm bill readied for final debate

New farm bill readied for final debate

The bill should generate about $ 24 billion in 10-year savings. | AP Photo
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After a two-year struggle and more perils than “Downton Abbey,” Congress should see a new farm bill this week as House-Senate negotiators worked through the weekend in hopes of filing the legislation by Monday …
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VIDEO: Politics Breaking News: After Stripping Food Stamp Measure, House GOP to Try Again on Farm Bill

After an embarrassing failure to pass its version of a farm bill, House Republicans will try again to pass a modified version of the legislation that splits it into two pieces.

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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Senate Committee Agrees to Cut Over $4 Billion of Food Aid from the Farm Bill, and More

In today’s On the News segment: In response to recent IRS admissions, President Obama called the enhanced investigation of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status “intolerable and inexcusable”; The Senate Agricultural Committee agreed to cut over four billion dollars of…
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