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Farm Legislation Sprouts on Hill (U.S. News & World Report)
Filed: May 23rd 2007: US

U.S. News & World Report - There's no shortage of headline-grabbing issues on Capitol Hill this week. The House Judiciary Committee continued to probe the Justice Department's firing of U.S. attorneys, while the Senate struggled in its efforts to pass a funding bill for the Iraq war. But away from the klieg lights, another major brouhaha was just beginning to take shape: the crafting of a new farm bill.

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