Senate Panel Backs Dairy Subsidy; Lawmakers Support Two-Year Extension
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › October 20, 2005
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Washington A dairy subsidy that has been embroiled in budget battles, regional farm fights and election politics got new life Wednesday when a Senate committee voted to restore it for two years.
The 3-year-old program, targeted to small farms, is popular in the upper Midwest and Northeast. Wisconsin is its single biggest beneficiary.See the full content of this document
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Senate Panel Backs Dairy Subsidy; Lawmakers Support Two-Year Extension
One booster, Senate Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, defended it Wednesday as a "little program to help the little guy, who's living out there in rural America trying to make ends meet."
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