The Senate considered a substitute version to the farm bill that would pay crop subsidies to farmers through a new seven-year program. Forty percent of the annual subsidy payments would come before harvest and not be connected to crop prices, while the remaining 60 percent would be paid only if crop prices fell below a certain level. The original farm bill, voted down the week prior, would have given farmers fixed, declining payments for seven years, and repealed most of the permanent farm law of 1938 and 1949.

7:29AM - 6:43PM ETSenate Session