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Patrick Leahy: “I remember all the pressure we got from the administration in 2002 to strip out the competition title which we had put…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 2009
I remember all the pressure we got from the administration in 2002 to strip out the competition title which we had put into the Farm Bill of 2002.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy recalls pressure to remove competition provisions from the 2002 Farm Bill.

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