Samuel Fromartz

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Will Congress Close the Loophole?

"These are payments we can't afford, going to people who don't need them - and for what public purpose?"
- Senator Tom Harkin, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, on subsidies to wealthy "farmers

But, in the House at least, no one's listening and it was the same-old, same-old, at the subsidy feed bin, EWG's Ken Cook tells us in this post on the dysfunctional farm bill.