Is it not correct that the Senate, with only one dissenting vote, approved, in October 1999, $81 million in payments to farmers, but the House refused to follow the Senate's action because North Carolina tobacco farmers would benefit?
Discussing the Senate's approval of payments to farmers and the House's refusal.
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