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Article: Senate hits cheese exchange USDA urged to reject Green Bay prices
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 14, 1997
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Green Bay's tiny National Cheese Exchange continues to get
national attention.
At the behest of Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the U.S. Senate
passed a resolution Thursday expressing its opinion that the
exchange should not be allowed to set milk prices.
Specter acted after dairy farmers in his state complained that
the federal government was permitting low prices to be paid for
milk.
The "sense of the Senate" resolution, which does not carry the
force of law, passed overwhelmingly. Both Wisconsin senators,
Democrats Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, were co-sponsors of the
measure and voted for it.
The resolution calls on the secretary of agriculture to
immediately address a decline in milk ...