date:Jun 21, 2012
rbin (D-IL), who is the assistant majority leader for the Democrats in the Senate.
The crop insurance changes have a way to go before becoming law. The House of Representatives lags the Senate in writing a farm bill. Its ag committee markup has been pushed back to July 11 and the committee leaders have said they're against other ideas for limiting premium subsidies that were suggested this spring. If the House passes its own bill, the two pieces of legislation will have to be merged into one i