date:Jun 21, 2012
mium subsidy would drop from an average of 62% to 47%.
The Thune amendment to stop the Durbin-Coburn amendment failed by a vote of 44-55.
Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Pat Roberts (R-KS) spoke passionately against both changes. Programs are in the commodity title already have conservation compliance, he said, and linking compliance to crop insurance would be wasteful duplication.