U.S. House Panel to Try Again With Full Agriculture Bill in 2013
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The House Agriculture Committee will go back to the drawing board on the farm bill in the next Congress, after unsuccessful efforts to include the legislation in any deal to avert more than $600 billion in tax increases and spending cuts set to trigger on Jan. 1.
“I see no reason to delay,” the committee’s chairman, Frank Lucas, an Oklahoma Republican, told reporters today.