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Posted: 6/3/2013 3:39:53 AM EST
FILE - This Dec. 4, 2012, file photo shows gallons of milk arranged at a Milwaukee grocery store. This week the Senate resumes debate on the almost $100 billion-a-year, massive, five-year farm bill that would set policy for farm subsidies and food stamps. The bill covers everything from protecting environmentally sensitive land to international food aid to rural communications services. The House is expected to consider their version in June or July. (AP Photo/Dinesh Ramde, File)
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Posted: 6/3/2013 3:39:53 AM EST
FILE - This Oct. 16, 2012, file photo shows farmer Myles Goodrich loading a feed wagon at his farm in Danville, Vt. This week the Senate resumes debate on the almost $100 billion-a-year, massive, five-year farm bill that would set policy for farm subsidies and food stamps. The bill covers everything from protecting environmentally sensitive land to international food aid to rural communications services. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
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Posted: 6/3/2013 3:39:53 AM EST
FILE - This May 15, 2103 file photo shows stacks of paperwork prepared for members of House Agriculture Committee, who are meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. This week the Senate resumes debate on the about the almost $100 billion-a-year, massive, five-year farm bill that would set policy for farm subsidies and food stamps. The bill covers everything from protecting environmentally sensitive land to international food aid to rural communications services. The House is expected to consider their version in June or July. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 6/3/2013 3:39:53 AM EST
FILE - In this July 9, 2009 file photo three combines harvest the winter wheat on the Cooksey farm near Roggen, Colo.This week the Senate resumes debate on the almost $100 billion-a-year, massive, five-year farm bill that would set policy for farm subsidies and food stamps. The bill also covers everything from protecting environmentally sensitive land to international food aid to rural communications services. The House is expected to consider their version in June or July. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski, File)
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Posted: 2/7/2013 4:19:38 PM EST
REFILE - REMOVING DUPLICATED REFERENCE TO DENMARK'S PRIME MINISTER (L-R) Romania's President Traian Basescu, Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt, Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend an European Union leaders summit meeting to discuss the European Union's long-term budget in Brussels February 7, 2013. European Union leaders begin two days of talks on a long-term budget on Thursday, with efforts to refocus spending on growth likely to be thwarted by demands for farm subsidies as pressure to reach a deal grows. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Posted: 2/7/2013 4:19:38 PM EST
Cyprus' President Demetris Christofias (C) attends an European Union leaders summit meeting to discuss the European Union's long-term budget in Brussels February 7, 2013. European Union leaders begin two days of talks on a long-term budget on Thursday, with efforts to refocus spending on growth likely to be thwarted by demands for farm subsidies as pressure to reach a deal grows. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Posted: 2/7/2013 4:19:38 PM EST
(L-R) Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning Schmidt and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy attend an European Union leaders summit meeting to discuss the European Union's long-term budget in Brussels February 7, 2013. European Union leaders begin two days of talks on a long-term budget on Thursday, with efforts to refocus spending on growth likely to be thwarted by demands for farm subsidies as pressure to reach a deal grows. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Posted: 2/7/2013 4:19:38 PM EST
Ireland's Prime Minister Enda Kenny (L) and France's President Francois Hollande (R) attend an European Union leaders summit meeting to discuss the European Union's long-term budget in Brussels February 7, 2013. European Union leaders begin two days of talks on a long-term budget on Thursday, with efforts to refocus spending on growth likely to be thwarted by demands for farm subsidies as pressure to reach a deal grows. REUTERS/Yves Herman
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Posted: 12/3/2012 3:23:33 PM EST
FILE - This Nov. 15, 2011 file photo shows Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, a member of last year's failed Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, pursued by reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. Sure, the rich are going to pay higher taxes. But an upcoming budget deal may also mean higher airline ticket prices, phasing out Saturday mail delivery and added prescription drug costs for the military. Negotiators are also looking to claim cuts to farm subsidies and modest curbs to food stamps as they seek to accumulate savings toward a multi-trillion-dollar budget pact. "All this stuff is hard. There's nothing easy here," says Portman, R-Ohio, which sifted through a long roster of often arcane budget cuts and new fees. "But if everybody feels like everybody else is contributing, it makes it easier." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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Posted: 7/23/2012 2:43:50 PM EST
FILE - In this July 10, 2012, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, speak to the media at the Capitol in Washington, as Rep. Nan Hayworth, R-NY., House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., House Speaker John Boehner, Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., and Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, listen. Senate-passed bills to cut farm subsidies and food stamps and overhaul the financially distraught Postal Service have been put on hold by House Republican leaders wary of igniting internal party fights or risking voters' ire three months before the election. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
