Published June 21, 2012, 12:00 AM

Farm bill leaders


Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, listens at left as Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 6 to discuss the bipartisan effort in the Senate to develop a farm and food bill that would bring fundamental changes to how the government protects food growers during hard times, including putting an end to paying farmers regardless of whether they plant a crop. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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