Is it not also the case that the farm bill part of it was a farm bill that many in farm country did not want? It cut farm programs $12 billion; it meant a reduction in farm income of about 40 percent. And so I remember being at a meeting at the White House with people from across my State urging the President to veto the whole reconciliation bill just because of the farm bill provision.
Discussing opposition to the farm bill during a debate on the reconciliation bill.
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