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Debbie Stabenow: “If I might respond, yes, that is exactly what is happening. Without consultation with me or with the chairman in the…”

On the recordDecember 31, 2012
If I might respond, yes, that is exactly what is happening. Without consultation with me or with the chairman in the House, we now have a partial extension of the farm bill. These are complex issues that involve a lot of pieces when you try to extend all 12 titles of the farm bill. They not only do not extend all of the titles, but they do not include critical disaster assistance, which, as the Senator knows, our farmers and ranchers have been waiting for across America.
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Debbie Stabenow
Democratic · Michigan
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Dec 31, 2012

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