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Harkin says Ag bill deadlocked

September 23, 1999 By admin

Senator Tom Harkin says the emergency farm aid bill is endangered by asquabble over selling food and medicine to Cuba. The Senate overwhelminglyvoted to sell U-S food and medicine to Cubans, but the matter has become asticking point with House republicans on a committee which is trying tostrike a deal on the ag aid bill.Earlier this week, Senator Chuck Grassley predicted the farm aid bill wouldwin final House/Senate approval yesterday. Harkin says there’s a chance thestalemate could last awhile.Harkin says 70 Senators voted to open up food and medicine trade with Cuba– a move sponsored by Republican Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri.Harkin will join other democrat Senators this afternoon in a Washington,D.C. news conference to call for quick action on the farm aid package.Harkin is a member of the House/Senate negotiating committee, as isCongressman Tom Latham.

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