Posted October 15, 2013
Jerry Hagstrom reported that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) recently proposed that the farm bill could be part of a larger package, according to a National Journal article, available here.
In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Reid “suggested that if the House passed the Senate resolution to reopen the government, it could be followed by large-scale negotiations on budget policies.” Reid wrote, “This conference would be an appropriate place to have these discussions, where participants could raise whatever proposals – such as tax reform, health care, agriculture, and certainly discretionary spending like veterans, national parks, and NIH – they feel appropriate.”
Boehner rejected Reid’s proposal, but Reid followed up at a news conference saying, “The farm bill’s hung up. We’ll talk about that.”
The House appointed its farm bill conferees over the weekend, moving the farm bill process forward. A recent post from this blog on the House farm bill conferees is available here.
For more information on farm bills, please visit the National Agricultural Law Center’s website, here.
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