Sentence examples for farm measures from inspiring English sources

But several proposals in the various farm measures being considered by Congress could violate existing trade agreements.

Many of the crossbenchers pushing the anti-wind farm measures sit on a committee which on Thursday produced an interim report.

North Dakota and Missouri have passed so-called "right to farm" measures in recent years, but opponents believe that the defeat in Oklahoma creates a model other states can follow to resist similar legislation in the future.

The same farm measure included the "swampbusters" provision that withdrew all federal subsidies to farmers who drained wetlands.

He proclaims the fact that he voted for tax cuts while in the Senate, and against bills that he said included wasteful spending, including one farm measure.

The farm lobby, a group of lawmakers from the Midwest and South, agrees that the $171 billion set aside last spring for a 10-year farm measure will disappear if they fail to pass a bill by December.

After refusing to consider a sweeping five-year farm measure, House Republican leaders jammed through a short-term $383 million package of loans and grants for livestock producers and a limited number of farmers.

House leaders also refused to consider their own Agriculture Committee's sweeping farm measure, instead pushing through a short-term $383 million package of loans and grants for livestock producers and a limited number of farmers.

When they passed the last farm measure -- the "Freedom to Farm" bill of 1996 -- lawmakers agreed to phase out a system in place since the Depression, promising to reduce subsidy payments based on fluctuating prices or the amount of crops produced.

The backup began to clear somewhat on Friday as the Senate sent President Bush a major military policy measure while completing its versions of a stalled housing bill and a farm measure that before Thanksgiving Day looked as if it might collapse.

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