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By the end of Thursday, both houses of Congress had overridden
President Bush's farm bill veto, but will still have to
do some re-voting to address the 34 missing pages of trade
legislation inadvertently dropped from the vetoed version.
(See Do
over: Missing pages send farm bill back two steps on
Meatingplace.com , May 22, 2008.)
On an 82 to 13 vote Thursday the Senate overrode Bush's
veto of the 90 percent of the Food, Conservation and Energy
Act he received. This followed a House 316 to 108 override
vote on Wednesday.
Because Title III of the bill was mistakenly missing from
the version Bush vetoed and Congress overrode, there are
still a few more procedural votes that must take place,
but Congress will not need to seek another extension of
current law, Senate Agriculture Committee Majority Communications
Director Kate Cyrul told Meatingplace.com .
"We are now trying to seek…to get the full farm bill conference
report approved again by the Senate," said Cyrul, noting
the House repeated that vote Thursday afternoon. "When that
passes, the full conference report will again be sent to
the president. If he vetoes again, it comes back to Congress,
where we will again have to override."
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