The public spat over farm payment limitations continues between Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley and House Ag Committee chair Mike Conaway.
Grassley and Conaway traded verbal jabs last week over the lack of farm payment reforms in the House version of the farm bill. Grassley—a longtime advocate of tighter payment rules—continued the discussion Tuesday in a conference call with ag reporters, saying there are too many loopholes in current law.
“I think Conaway should explain why it’s a good use of taxpayer dollars to remove the 900-thousand dollar income limit for subsidies and also make subsidies unlimited in his farm bill…and explain why any of these egregious loopholes makes sense,” Grassley says.
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