With most attention being paid to Sonia Sotomayor's pending approval to the Supreme Court, the House's request for three new high-end jets, and the ongoing Health Care debate (not to mention the attack on all dissenting opinion), most people missed this vote late last night.
A 60-37 roll call late Tuesday set the tone as an unlikely combination of bipartisan rural farm interests and New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer corralled just enough support to waive budget rules and provide $350 million to help struggling dairy farmers.
It is sad to say that Maine's two Senators joined in this debt-adding measure, which required 60 votes because it increased the Agriculture department appropriations beyond what the Obama administration requested without paying for it with new revenues. There are few times where we get a clear example of Congressmen voting for vested interests (usually there is some claim for "greater good"), but we get a nice juicy one right here.
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I feel like a comment about "just because it is about beef doesn't make it not pork" would be unnecessary here.
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