Thread: Farm Bill Now. . Can Someone Watch This?????

I've got the audio however, this will be published on my account online for anyone to go see, ill give the link at the end of all this.

Rep. Weller.

"Noone knows the consequences of this tax increase, this bill needs to be voted down"

Rep. Earl Pomery, or similiar, name tag went off instantly .

"ITs time to do whats right and pass this bill for the farmers of America"

Browser Crashed, I believe the rep from Texas is against the bill

http://www.c-span.org/watch/index.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS

Watch live from the web, low bandwidth one for dial up users too.

A ton of talk about the tax increase, alot of complaint, some "eh, not so bad, bill is still viable".

Rep. Ron Kind

"Help farmers when they need it, but not when they don't."

As one interested in the welfare of American Farmers and being one for a good number of years it is times like this that make me wish I had not taken my TV outside and shot it in the back of the picture tube years ago.

Lousy MTV!

The is called the Farm Extension Act. A summary:

SUMMARY
H.R. 2419 would amend and extend the major farm income support, food and nutrition, land
conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, energy, horticulture,
and crop insurance programs administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
CBO estimates that enacting the bill would increase direct spending for those programs by
$5.8 billion over the 2008-2012 period and $17.5 billion over the 2008-2017 period. When
combined with estimated spending under CBO's baseline projections for those programs,
enacting H.R. 2419 would bring total spending for those USDA programs to $286 billion
over the 2008-2012 period and $614 billion over the 2008-2017 period.
Most of the estimated net costs—$16.9 billion over the 2008-2017 period—are attributable
to the "en bloc" amendment to titles IV and IX adopted by the committee. Without the
effects of the Agriculture Committee's en bloc amendment, CBO estimates that the other
provisions of H.R. 2419 would reduce direct spending by $607 million over the 2008-2012
period and increase direct spending by $577 million over the 2008-2017 period.
CBO also estimates that enacting the bill would result in additional penalty collections
(which are recorded on the budget as revenues) of $10 million over the 2008-2012 period and
$20 million over the 2008-2017 period.
The bill would authorize discretionary appropriations over the 2008-2012 period for existing
and new USDA programs involving research and education, nutrition, trade promotion, rural
development, credit assistance, forestry, and conservation initiatives. However, CBO has not
completed an estimate of the full discretionary costs of implementing H.R. 2419.

Nearly one hour of audio so far, still going. Gonna take a LONG time to upload, even with this major highspeed.