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Article: Ag committee chief still butting heads with the White House
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
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- February 3, 2008
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Be it bird hunting in Minnesota or vote hunting on Capitol Hill,
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is seen as a
straight shooter of both pheasants and fools. Lately, he's been
drawin' a bead on both.
On Jan. 19, the House ag chief, with Senate counterpart Tom
Harkin of Iowa and Acting Secretary of Agriculture Chuck Conner
seated nearby, blasted the glacial pace of 2007 Farm Bill talks
while addressing the Pheasants Forever convention in St. Paul, Minn.
"Ridiculous," is how he publicly characterized the going-nowhere
discussions, tied in a knot by the Bush administration's inflexible
requirements that a final bill include a hard, $200,000 adjusted
gross income cap for farm ...