Senator Santorum has proposed a farmland protection program, for which $35 million would be devoted. It would authorize the Commodity Credit Purchase Corporation conservation easements of not less than 170,000, not more than 340,000 acres of land, subject to a pending offer from State or local governments. It is cosponsored by Senator Leahy and has been cleared on both sides.
Discussing a farmland protection program proposed by Senator Santorum.
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