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EWG And Taxpayer Groups Want Subsidy Reforms In Senate Farm Bill

EWG And Taxpayer Groups Want Subsidy Reforms In Senate Farm Bill

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The Environmental Working Group, Heritage Foundation and Taxpayers groups want more subsidy reforms in the 2018 farm bill that was sent out of the Senate Ag Committee this week. Joshua Sewell, Senior Policy Analyst for Taxpayers for Common Sense is disappointed that the payment limitation provision proposed by Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley was left out of the legislation.

Caroline Kitchens, Federal Affairs Manager for the R-Street Institute, a non profit policy research group says the crop insurance title needs to be fixed so that loopholes that allow major corporations to access federal funds are eliminated.

Citizens Against Government Waste Director of Federal Affairs Allen Johnson says the title one commodity program in the farm bill needs to be substantially reformed.

Sewell, Kitchens and Johnson all say that the Senate Ag Committee failed to fix the farm safety net with the measure they sent onto the full Senate.

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