Congress has three choices on the farm bill: Pass, renew, or flake

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Congress has three choices on the farm bill: Pass, renew, or flake

As members of Congress return from their August recess, they have three options when it comes to the farm bill, the multi-billion-dollar bill that shapes everything from food assistance to farm subsidies to farm conservation. They can pass, renew, or flake. Congress may still pass a new farm bill before the current bill runs out in September, but, frankly, the odds of this happening are awfully low. Though highly flawed, the Senate version of the bill — with its significant but fairly equal cuts to farm subsidies, food stamps, and conservation programs — has begun to look like an impossible dream. And, in the eyes of most sustainable food advocates at least, the version written by the GOP-controlled House is a straight-up nightmare. As the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC) — the organization whose job it is to track every detail of this now-comically cumber...

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@WeLiveGreen » 18 Sep '12, 3pm
the tangled web of the US #FarmBill: [link]
@GrassRootsPS » 13 Sep '12, 3pm
Farm Bill options [link] [link]
@brendanmcl » 12 Sep '12, 10pm
Nice concise breakdown of the paths still open to Congress on the #farmbill from @twyspy [link]
@ddills88 » 12 Sep '12, 5pm
RT @farm_2_table: Congress has three choices on the farm bill: Pass, renew, or flake | Grist [link]
@EcoCentered » 11 Sep '12, 6pm
Pass, renew or flake: 3 possibilities for #Farm Bill as Congress gets down to business: [link] #SNAP via @twyspy
@freshcoast952 » 11 Sep '12, 9am
RT @greenforall: Three weeks and counting till the 2008 Farm Bill expires. What will Congress do? | [link]
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If Congress doesn't take action on food bill, funding for #organic farmers, renewable energy may stop. @oxbloodruffin [link]
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If Congress chooses not to take action on food bill, funding for #organic farmers, renewable energy may be stopped. [link]
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RT @CColpetzer: RT @grist: Congress has three choices on the farm bill: Pass, renew, or flake [link]
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@grist » 11 Sep '12, 1am
Alright, Congress, you have 3 choices on the farm bill: [link] Which one will it be?
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Returning Congress has 3 choices on #farmbill: Pass, renew, or flake, sums @twyspy/@grist [link]
@greenforall » 10 Sep '12, 9pm
Three weeks and counting till the 2008 Farm Bill expires. What will Congress do? | [link]
@LJRoRo » 10 Sep '12, 4pm
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Three weeks and counting till the 2008 Farm Bill expires. What will Congress do? | [link] via... [link]
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Farm Bill: Pass, Flake, or Renew? [link]
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