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Mixup negates House override of farm bill veto

2008-05-22

The House overwhelmingly rejected President Bush's veto of a $290 billion farm bill Wednesday, but what was to have been a stinging defeat for the president became an embarrassing episode for Democrats.

Only hours before the House's 316-108 vote, Bush had vetoed the five-year measure, saying it was too expensive and gave too much money to wealthy farmers when farm incomes are high. The Senate then was expected to follow suit quickly.

Action stalled, however, after the discovery that Congress had omitted a 34-page section of the bill when lawmakers sent the massive measure to the White House. That means Bush vetoed a different bill from the one Congress passed, leaving leaders scrambling to figure out whether it could become law.

Posted by:gorb

#14 $290 billion worth of corporate welfare for agribusiness and they bitch about the cost of Iraq?

It's them down trodden dirt poor sod busters of Manhattan needing a little help from us all. Not that I could afford living there myself, let alone till the acreage.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-05-22 21:17

#13 I swear every time I decide to register myself an R the party does some crap like this.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-05-22 17:31

#12 Can't even line their own pockets without f'n up - worst congress ever.

Disturbing is/was the effort to pass it anyways after the fact was known. I feel anyone involved in that attempted breach of procedure should be impeached.

Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-05-22 16:11

#11 $290 billion worth of corporate welfare for agribusiness and they bitch about the cost of Iraq?

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2008-05-22 15:48

#10 Ummm, Darth - minor problem there. Senators serve a 6-year term.

I'd love to see your math, though.... ;-p

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-05-22 14:21

#9 8 years for a Senator, 12 for a Rep. That is max, not in blocks. So for a career congress person 20 years max. End of line.

Then run for President.

Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-22 14:06

#8 Exactly, OldSpook. The term limit thing got quickly forgotten when the class of '94-'96 found out how ~~lucrative~~ good it is to be a Congresscritter.
Every few years, chuck the whole lot of them out and start fresh.

Posted by: Spot 2008-05-22 13:54

#7 The sad thing is the Republicans dont have the spine or nads to sustain a veto of this Pork Fest.

The idiots still haven't figured out that their eithical and fiscal misconduct is what got them thrown out in 2006.

Stupid bastards.

We need term limits - these fools seem incapable of learning.

Posted by: OldSpook 2008-05-22 13:16

#6 You don't suppose God has a hand in this do you ?
Perhaps God has come to realize that the source of much of today's immorality is Congress, and he has opened a branch office in the capitol.
That would also explain Kennedy.

Posted by: wxjames 2008-05-22 11:30

#5 printing the legislation on parchment

How many animals had to die for this farm bill? Does PETA know about this?

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-05-22 11:03

#4 We haven't found a precedent for a congressional blunder of this magnitude...

Really? I have seen it every time the dhimocrats open their mouth... try to block war funding ... try to pass amnesty... try to do, well, anything actually.

Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-22 10:54

#3 "We can't let the farm bill just die."

Heaven's forfend that perfectly good pork should go to waste.

Posted by: Grenter Protector of the Geats4975 2008-05-22 09:21

#2 "We are trying to understand the ramifications of this congressional farm bill foul-up. We haven't found a precedent for a congressional blunder of this magnitude,"...

Ooooooh...that's gotta hurt!

Posted by: tu3031 2008-05-22 09:01

#1 What I'm not seeing in that bill is the cancellation of subsidies to *not* grow crops. And I think that this is the big sticking point.

With ethanol mandates still *increasing*, because of congress, *and* their unwillingness to permit new energy development, *and* the resultant spike in food prices, there is no reason in pluperfect hell why congress should continue to pay people, many of whom are *pretending* to be farmers, to *not* grow crops.

And to HELL with people like Sam Donaldson, who is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to *not* raise angora goats for their mohair, as an "absentee farmer".

Posted by: Anonymoose 2008-05-22 08:54

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