Senate passes election-year hike in farm subsidies
Thursday, May 9, 2002
WASHINGTON -- The Senate gave final approval Wednesday to a farm bill that will shower billions of dollars in new subsidies on political battleground states and scrap the 1996 law that was intended to make growers less dependent on the government.
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