Press Release

May 9, 2008

 

Contact:
Caroline Burns
(202) 225-3631

 

BISHOP STATEMENT ON FARM BILL CONFERENCE AGREEMENT

 

Washington, D.C. Congressman Sanford Bishop today released the following statement on the House - Senate conference committee agreement on the Farm bill:

 

“Through months of veto threats and game playing by the White House, the Farm bill conference committee members managed to stand their ground and craft a bipartisan agreement on this bill.

 

“This conference agreement provides an adequate safety net for our farmers and guarantees an affordable and nutritious food supply for the youngest and most vulnerable among us – all in a fiscally responsible way. I am especially pleased that the peanut rotation program, which we paved the way for in the House bill last summer, and which will encourage a cleaner, greener method of planting, made its way into the conference agreement

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“I sincerely hope the President will reconsider his most recent threats to veto this Farm bill, which represents so many long hours of work and deliberation by Congress, and holds such tremendous implications for rural America.”

 

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