Article: Interview with Jim Gransbery of the Billings Gazette in Billings, Montana. (President Bill Clinton)(Interview)

May 31, 1995

Farm Bill

Mr. Gransbery. - envision sharp reductions in both mandatory and discretionary spending for farm programs and research. To what extent are you willing to go - a veto or whatever - to get a farm bill that adequately meets your funding requirements to protect farmers' income and future research?

The President. I'm willing to go quite a long way. You know, I went to Ames, Iowa, a couple of weeks ago to hold a rural conference to give agricultural interests from around the Middle West a chance to come in and testify on a strictly nonpartisan basis just to say what they thought ought to be done in the farm bill. And I pointed out that ...

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