Senate OKs $124 billion agriculture bill
Posted: August 5, 2009 at 5:24 a.m.
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday passed a $124.3 billion agriculture spending bill that pays to add millions of people to the food-stamp rolls as rising numbers of the jobless are forced into the program.
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