Senators urged to embrace sugar reform

Industries

Friday, June 08, 2012

The Coalition for Sugar Reform on Thursday praised a bipartisan group of senators for offering an amendment to the country’s sugar import policies. The amendment to the 2012 Farm Bill — the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2012 (S. 3240) — under consideration this week in the U.S. Senate, would roll back the sugar program’s most onerous provisions, which were enacted as part of the 2008 Farm Bill. The amendment was filed by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.; Richard Lugar...

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