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News Home Page SEARC House Approves $170B Farm Bill By Philip Brasher AP Farm Writer --------- Industry Watch Search Friday, October 5, 2001; 12:33 PM Food

WASHINGTON — The House This Article on Friday easily approved a $170 Printer-Friendly Version billion overhaul of farm programs Subscribe to The Post after turning aside a bid by urban__ ' lawmakers ^d environmentaliststo shift billions in crop subsidies into "conservation programs. ~~ World M etro The White House has sharply criticized the bill, which would reverse the Business 1996 "Freedom to Farm" law that was supposed to wean farmers from Ch Washtech government supports. Sports OL Style "We wanted to get rid of the bad and keep the good parts, and that's what we did," said Rep. Larry Combest, R-Texas, chairman of the House aut Education Travel Agriculture Committee. Health ar The bill, approved 291-120, creates a new subsidy program to protect Home 8i Garden grain and cotton fanners when prices are low and resurrects supports for tr Opinion Weather sheep and honey producers that were eliminated in the 1990s. Authors of yo the legislation say the existing financial safety net for farmers is Weekly Sections inadequate. t News Digest Classifieds "The 1996 farm bill is an utter failure," said Texas Rep. Charles Print Edition Stenholm, the committee's top Democrat. Driv .,rcnivc£. -L.. 3nde> to The White House this week said the subsidies would encourage Help overproduction and benefit farmers who need assistance the least. The administration wants more money put into conservation programs.

"We do believe there can be additional things added into the bill to reach a broader number of people and a broader number of farmers," said W Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman. O' But the House defeated, 226-200, a proposal Thursday that would have Sri moved $19 billion from planned crop supports into payments for farmers who idle farmland or take steps to curb runoff of fertilizer and animal ©jcM waste. washti Groups representing grain, cotton and soybean growers viewed the proposal as a major threat to their government support and had secured a pledge from Combest to shelve the bill had the amendment been

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