Senate Passes Farm Bill in Veto Override

They screwed up the bill, though -- the copy was incomplete. A second bill will need to be passed.

clipped from ap.google.com Congress has enacted a massive election-year farm bill over President Bush's veto. More than 90 percent of the bill will become law after the Senate voted 82-13 to override Bush's veto Thursday. The president claimed it was too expensive and too generous with subsidies for farmers. But the version that Bush vetoed was missing 34 pages on international food aid and trade. That will require Congress to send another bill to Bush. The $290 billion bill increases food stamps by $1 billion a year. It also increases subsidies for some crops and for the first time subsidizes growers of fresh fruits and vegetables.