After weeks of delays, the 2007 Farm Bill will hit the US Senate floor tomorrow. This is our final opportunity to ask Congress for a fairer farm bill for all.
Two key amendments that would fight poverty and injustice, the Dorgan-Grassley Payment Limits Amendment and the Lugar-Lautenberg FRESH Amendment, could be up for a vote as early as tomorrow. We need you to call Senators Coleman and Klobuchar now and ask them to vote yes for these two key amendments. If you called in the past, it is important that you call again -- and ask your friends to do the same.
Senator Klobuchar is supporting the Dorgan-Grassley Amendment but not the FRESH Amendment. Please call her office at 202-224-3244. Thank her for co-sponsoring the Dorgan-Grassley Amendment and ask that she also vote for the FRESH Amendment.
Senator Coleman is not currently planning on voting for either amendment. His position is at odds with many in his own party, including the President – who has promised to veto the Farm Bill that Coleman supports. Call Senator Coleman's office at 202-224-5641. Ask him to vote for both amendments so a reformed Farm Bill can be signed into law.
As President Carter wrote in today's Washington Post, "...Congress has a moral obligation to protect American agriculture with legislation that will serve our national interests, that will feed hungry people and that does not suppress the ability of the poor to work their way out of poverty." Take action today to remind our Senators of this obligation!
More Farm Bill news:
AP, Klobuchar faces uphill battle to block farm subsidies for wealthy
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Living Food: Cut farm subsides
Washington Post, More Farm Follies
