As the House comes back into session Monday, the farm bill looks like it may be in more trouble than it really is. The week before Thanksgiving the four principal negotiators—House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and ranking member Collin Peterson, D-Minn.; and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and ranking member Thad Cochran, R-Miss.—failed to meet their own self-imposed deadline of reaching a framework for a conference report before taking a break for the holidays. But they did meet three times last week and have talked on the phone several times since. The Senate is not in session this week, but all conferees have been told they may be...
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