Category: disaster aid
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Permanent Disaster Relief
In a lot of ways, I really wonder about <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/07/25/news/wyoming/40-relief.txt">this permanent disaster relief idea</a>. I really truly believe that if there was a permanent disaster relief fund, there would be pressure to find a disaster every year to use the funds that are there. They will never build up to be used in a…
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Will He Sign?
Will President Bush sign the <a href="http://www.theprairiestar.com/articles/2007/05/25/ag_news/updates/update24.txt">disaster aid/assistance</a> that Congress recently passed? He has never been a big fan of Agricultural disaster aid but he might sign this one. <br />n<br />nI have been <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/plugin/freetag/disaster+aid">talking about this disaster aid</a> for a while. A lot of it is drought assistance for the last couple of…
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Disaster Aid Try
We all knew it was coming, the Democrats are <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=32F6DE3C-B0AB-D5A0-DDB2E28D1840FA22">adding agricultural disaster aid</a> into a "supplemental spending bill." When I first saw this headline it looked like maybe Congress was finally going to get somewhere with Disaster aid for those who need it. It turns out I was wrong.<br />n<br />nThe Democrats are <a…
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Still Trying
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/02/04/news/state/60-route.txt" >New route sought for ag disaster aid</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Farm-state members of Congress say they hope an upcoming war spending bill will be an opportunity to secure billions of dollars in agricultural disaster aid.<br />n<br />nThey say it won't be easy.<br />n<br />nSens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., have been leading the effort…
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Drought Aid Dead, For Now
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/12/06/news/state/55-drought.txt" >Drought aid derailed again</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Congressional efforts to provide billions of dollars in agricultural disaster aid were thwarted again Tuesday, leaving the issue to languish until Democrats take over both chambers in January.<br />n<br />nNorth Dakota Sens. Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan, both Democrats, attempted to attach $4.8 billion in aid for struggling…
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Drought Aid
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E1F13B84-EB33-E04B-0E9341A02EF80B79" >Drought aid still dependent on President Bush</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Drought aid may get through Congress by the first of the year, but only if President Bush goes along. That’s what South Dakota Democratic Senator Tim Johnson told the Women Involved in Farm Economics (WIFE) Annual Convention in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Saturday.<br />n<br />nAccording…
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A Crop In Itself
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400807.html?nav=rss_politics">Aid Is a Bumper Crop for Farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the spring of 2000, Congress decided to do something about its costly and politically driven practice of giving farmers a disaster payment each time a storm damaged their crops.<br />n<br />nThe lawmakers voted to use $8 billion in new taxpayer subsidies to help farmers buy…
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Just Goes To Show You
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/609290325/1002" >Rehberg opts out of signing House drought petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana's lone congressman is refusing to buck Republican leaders and join with Democrats to force a vote on drought assistance for the nation's farmers and ranchers.<br />n<br />nRep. Dennis Rehberg will not sign the House Democrats' petition that seeks to bring the matter to…
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Democrats Come Out Firing
<a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=EBC71872-C631-3E2E-C9870F565C92DEB0" >House Democrats launch Discharge Petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Democratic members of the House of Representatives have introduced a discharge petition in an effort to bring ag disaster relief to the floor. Minnesota representative, Collin Peterson is Ranking Minority Member of the House Ag Committee; he says the real problem is a dispute over how any…
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Disaster Relief Going Nowhere
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/11/news/state/50-billions.txt" >Billions for drought a tough sell</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Penny Altendorf isn't a farmer, but the ongoing drought is affecting her family nonetheless.<br />n<br />nShe and her husband Richard own an aerial sprayer company, a business that is dependent on the weather in eastern North Dakota where they live. And it's been so dry this…