Comparing the FFA and Senate Bills
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By the end of October 1995, the Senate and House agriculture committees had sent farm bills to their respective budget committees for reconciliation. The House Committee on Agriculture actually was unable to achieve a consensus; Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) subsequently sent his Freedom to Farm Act (FFA) to the House Budget Committee. On the Senate side, a compromise bill was approved, though by the end of the month it had not received a number or formally been written. The House and Senate bills approach the deficit-reduction concerns which drive this year’s farm bill process in dramatically different ways, although they have a common bond of decoupling direct payments to farmers and production decisions. This paper attempts an “apples-to-apples” comparison of the two farm policy alternatives, using a c o m p l e t e 1996-2002 baseline, the last two years of which recently became available from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). This paper first examines the substantive differences between the House and Senate bills and how their authors intend to achieve budget savings. Subsequently, the impacts of each on U.S. agriculture will be examined, followed by a discussion of other comparisons which can be drawn between the legislative proposals. Comparing the FFA and Senate Bills
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