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Old 05-16-2008, 03:54 PM
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According to the Washington Post Bush will still veto the farm bill. However, the veto will not be sustained in Congress.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051503985.html

Quote:
Senate Passes Farm Bill, But Bush Still Plans Veto


President Bush will now follow the lead of the late Dwight Eisenhower by vetoing a comprehensive farm bill.

Bush, though, is no Eisenhower.

On Thursday, the Senate, by a comfortably veto-proof margin of 81 to 15, approved a farm bill that now faces a resistant White House. Bush says he will veto the five-year package, much as Eisenhower nixed a big farm bill in April 1956.

Eisenhower won his showdown, the last time a president vetoed a major, standalone farm bill. Bush, however, will lose. The House and Senate now have both approved the farm bill by more than the two-thirds vote needed to override a veto.

"Mr. President, you and your people have been at the table for more than a year," Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) declared. "It's time you recognize the value of this project."
Craig was one of 35 Republican senators to abandon Bush on Thursday and support the farm bill. On Wednesday, 91 GOP House members voted for the bill, boosting the House's approval to a veto-proof margin of 318 to 106.

Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the Republicans' presumptive presidential candidate, missed the vote but said he opposes the bill. Democratic Sens. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) and Barack Obama (Ill.) both support the bill, but they likewise missed the vote.
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