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Louise Slaughter: “I come before the Budget Committee today to express my strong opposition and concern to proposed changes in the 2008…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2009
I come before the Budget Committee today to express my strong opposition and concern to proposed changes in the 2008 bill which would eliminate direct payments to all farms making over $500,000 in gross sales.
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Louise Slaughter
New York

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Opposing cuts to farm payments affecting family farms' livelihoods.

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