The US House passed its version of the 2007 Farm Bill Friday by a vote of 231 to 191 – a vote largely along party lines on a bill that came out of the House agriculture committee as a bipartisan piece of legislation. Republican members of the committee withdrew their support for the bill when a tax increase on foreign owned businesses was added to pay for nutrition programs. House ag minority leader Bob Goodlatte led an unsuccessful attempt to have the bill sent back to committee to find more offsets for funding. Now the attention turns to the Senate, which is likely to pass a very different bill, according to Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns.
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Despite the threat of a presidential veto of the bill in its current form, Johanns says there are some good things about it.
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