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Number 120
Policy: Congressional Research Service Publication Compares House and Senate New Farm Bills
(1:41 minutes)
Audio/Video Script:
Dr. Bobby Coats
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
A Congressional Research Service publication compares the House and Senate
farm bills - I’m Bobby Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas Division
of Agriculture.
The U.S. House of Representatives completed their version of
the farm bill on July 27, 2007. The U.S. Senate completed their version of the
farm bill on December 14, 2007.
The Congressional Research Service in their publication that compares the
House and Senate versions of the farm bill does an excellent job of comparing
the major provisions in the House and Senate versions with each other and with
current law.
What comes next in completing the 2008 farm bill? A farm bill House and
Senate Conference committee with input from the President will resolve
differences between the House and Senate farm bills.
Following Conference committee farm bill passage, my expectation is that the
farm bill legislation produced by the Senate and House farm bill Conference
committee will be approved on the floor of the House and Senate. Then the farm
bill will be sent to the President to sign or veto. Will the President sign the
new farm bill?
Given the huge amount of work that will have taken place by Congress and the
President to produce a final farm bill product, then I expect the President to
sign the new farm bill into law in April or May of this year.
This has been Bobby Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas Division
of Agriculture.
Publication: Comparison of the House and Senate New Farm Bills
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