History Is Not Bunk: How Farm Bills Past Shape Farm Bills Present

On August 25, 2011, two members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry found themselves in a hotel ballroom at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, convening the second of two “field hearings” on reauthorizing the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.¹ Pres...

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1. Verfasser:	Bosso, Christopher J
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Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	On August 25, 2011, two members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry found themselves in a hotel ballroom at Wichita’s Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, convening the second of two “field hearings” on reauthorizing the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.¹ Presiding over the half-day session was Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat in her first year as committee chair. However, the main attraction for those in attendance was the committee’s ranking minority member, Kansas Republican Pat Roberts, who had served on the committee since first being elected to the Senate in 1996. Before then, Roberts had