Stabenow, Collins: Budget deal may include farm bill savings
October 16, 2013 | 03:40 PM
The inclusion of budget negotiations in the agreement announced today to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling raises the possibility that the deal could include the farm bill so that Congress could include savings from nutrition and the farm program.
There are no clear indications about whether the budget deal and the farm bill would be joined together, but the farm bill conference and the budget negotiations are likely to occur at the same time, since the deadline for the budget negotiations to be finished is mid December.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Tuesday that a budget deal might include savings from the farm bill, Roll Call reported.
“It has been raised at the highest levels and is something that is … viewed as a positive part of solving the long-term budget crisis,” Stabenow said, according to the report. “As a member — senior member — of the Budget Committee … I certainly am in a very strong position to raise that.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told NBC's Andrea Mitchell today that President Barack Obama has said that everything is on the table in the budget negotiations, but that Democrats will not agree to entitlement cuts without putting tax revenues, including tax expenditures — a term for tax breaks — on the table.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told Mitchell that since ethanol tax breaks have been eliminated tax breaks for the oil industry should be on the table in the negotiations.
There are no clear indications about whether the budget deal and the farm bill would be joined together, but the farm bill conference and the budget negotiations are likely to occur at the same time, since the deadline for the budget negotiations to be finished is mid December.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Tuesday that a budget deal might include savings from the farm bill, Roll Call reported.
“It has been raised at the highest levels and is something that is … viewed as a positive part of solving the long-term budget crisis,” Stabenow said, according to the report. “As a member — senior member — of the Budget Committee … I certainly am in a very strong position to raise that.”
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told NBC's Andrea Mitchell today that President Barack Obama has said that everything is on the table in the budget negotiations, but that Democrats will not agree to entitlement cuts without putting tax revenues, including tax expenditures — a term for tax breaks — on the table.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., told Mitchell that since ethanol tax breaks have been eliminated tax breaks for the oil industry should be on the table in the negotiations.
