Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Republicans. Show all posts

March 21, 2012

Deep cuts to agricultural budget from 2013

Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee, released a proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2013. If this bill is enacted the plan would cut spending to the agriculture sector in the United States by US$30 billion (€22.622 billion) over the next decade and that would mean that future farm bills would have to adhere to the limits imposed by this cut.

This proposed cut to the budget is to protect the future and help reverse the financial turmoil of the past few years. “Chairman Ryan's proposed budget demonstrates that House Republicans are willing to lead and make the difficult decisions necessary to tackle our debt and deficit crisis,” said Oklahoma Rep. Frank Lucas, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, in a statement. While Lucas doesn’t “support every detail and proposed cut … writing and passing a budget is the most basic function of governing and requires leadership and political courage.” Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publisher. To get your copy of 'PPLAPP' click here.
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June 15, 2011

Chicken breeders face Senate tax-cut hawks

A vote in the US Senate today is pitting corn growers against chicken farmers, anti-tax purists against anti-spending advocates, and Democrats and Republicans against members of their own parties. Senator Tom Coburn’s attempt to eliminate tax breaks and tariffs that benefit the ethanol industry will place his colleagues in the middle of a political fight over corn-based energy that has fermented for years.

Coburn is bringing another quarrel to a boil his feud with Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, a Washington group that has persuaded 40 of 47 Republican senators to sign its no-tax-increase pledge. Read more ...

 This blog is written by Martin Little, The Global Miller, published and supported by the GFMT Magazine and the International Milling Directory from Perendale Publishers


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