He said Farm Bureau supported the budget resolution and urged the lawmakers to ensure careful consideration of the assistance agriculture will need to continue as a viable, dependable and necessary American industry.
Farmers share that access with national defense.
But the need continues. The House's close budget vote, 222-205, signals trouble for an evenly split Senate. Facing a deadlocked Budget Committee, Senate Republicans will pass over the usual committee action and take the budget straight to the floor this month, a plan that angers Democrats on the committee. The Senate is scheduled to begin up to 50 hours of debate on its version of the budget resolution on April 2. Budget resolutions are not legally binding and their spending totals can be exceeded when Congress decides on the 13 annual appropriations bills.