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Originally Posted by Club Nightfly Damn right lol.
"$844 million on nutrition, $760 million on conservation and $212 million on payments to farmers."
Heh, they cut 1.6 billion on good things and only 212 million on subsidies. I guess we can see how the mind of a Republican works. |
This comes into play here.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower once remarked, “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.”
Also from what I know the President really doesn't deal much with the Comittee, It was infact started by the house.
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Originally Posted by HAC Thus the Committee on Agriculture was created on May 3, 1820. The population of the country was about 9 million and there were 213 Representatives in the House. Seven of these Representatives, under the chairmanship of Thomas Forrest, of Pennsylvania, were assigned to the new committee. Six other States were represented in this group: Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, South Carolina, Vermont, and Virginia. (The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry was founded December 9, 1825.)
Lewis Williams, a Representative from Surrey County, N.C., elected to the 14th and 13 succeeding Congresses, and known as the "Father of the House," was the sponsor of the resolution proposing a Committee on Agriculture, and at the time of its introduction, April 29, 1820, he had this to say on the floor of the House: |
Also the Appropriations Committee is cutting the Agriculture Committee's funding, thus causing the Agriculture Committee to cut other things to help fund their research etc.