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coalition …. connecting with conservation groups builds your coalition …. all of which will be
absolutely critical going forward,” Stabenow told Agri-Pulse after the vote.

Going forward, farm groups need to learn from those experiences in 2012 and 2013, explained
Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, during a
recent meeting.

“Our success in the future depends on activating that grass roots populism which was
largely responsible for President Trump’s success,” Conner told the National Farmers
Union annual convention. “If we are divided, if we are fighting amongst each other or
indifferent – frankly as we were going into 2014 – then these ultra-conservative and ultra-
left groups will fill that void.”
For a list of farm bill amendments offered in 2012 and 2013, see the table below. Some of those
amendments that were defeated are likely to surface again in future farm bill debates.

Senate Farm Bill Amendments

2012
Senate Passage Passage
Amendment Sponsor Summary
(Yea - Nay) Date

Barbara EPA shall only conduct aerial overflights to Not agreed to;
2456 Boxer, D- inspect agricultural operations if the EPA 6/21/2012
Calif. Administrator determines that aerial 47 - 48
overflights are more cost-effective than ground
inspections to the taxpayer and the Agency has

notified the appropriate State officials of such
flights.

John Kerry, Agreed to;
2454 To prohibit assistance to North Korea under 6/20/2014
D-Mass. title II of the Food for Peace Act unless the 59 - 40
President issues a national interest waiver.

Sherrod To strengthen rural communities and foster the Agreed to;
2445 Brown, D- next generation of farmers and ranchers. 6/19/2012
Ohio 55 - 44

Richard To limit the amount of premium subsidy Agreed to;
2439 provided by the Federal Crop Insurance 6/20/2012
Durbin, D-Ill. 66 - 33
Corporation on behalf of any person or legal
entity with an average adjusted gross income
in excess of $750,000 with a delayed
application of the limitation until completion

of a study on the effects of the limitation.

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