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Biofuel-friendly Farm Bill gets veto override from Congress

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. As expected, Congress made sure the Farm Bill (actually called the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008) became law yesterday despite some sort of clerical error that resulted in a number of pages being dropped from the final version. Democrats were embarrassed. The Senate voted 82 to 13 to override President Bush's veto. The Farm Bill contains a lot of biofuel-friendly sections, as we detailed the other day. To mention a few of the provisions: Cellulosic ethanol producers have ... Read more →

Farm Bill vetoed, but the biofuel-friendly law probably won't be stopped Sebastian Blanco

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. President Bush vetoed the five-year, $289 billion Farm Bill today, saying it was too expensive in the current economic climate. Congress ...

White House: Bush to sign energy bill Wednesday Lascelles Linton

The Congress finally passed the energy bill today, which includes a 35 miles per gallon CAFE standard and the White House says Bush will sign it Wednesday. Even though Bush threatened to veto the ...

Bush tells Congress how to write an energy bill Lascelles Linton

Bush sent a letter telling Congress what changes they can make to the energy bill so he does not veto it. Allan Hubbard wrote the letter that the White House sent to Congressional leaders (Nancy ...

Biofuel-friendly Farm Bill gets veto override from Congress 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. As expected, Congress made sure the Farm Bill (actually called the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008) became law yesterday despite some sort of clerical error that resulted in a number of pages being dropped from the final ...

Farm Bill vetoed, but the biofuel-friendly law probably won't be stopped 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Yandle. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. President Bush vetoed the five-year, $289 billion Farm Bill today, saying it was too expensive in the current economic climate. Congress passed the bill by wide margins last week, and, as Bloomberg notes, a veto override is likely. So, ...

White House: Bush to sign energy bill Wednesday 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The Congress finally passed the energy bill today, which includes a 35 miles per gallon CAFE standard and the White House says Bush will sign it Wednesday. Even though Bush threatened to veto the bill several times and he still thinks the CAFE standard could have gone "farther and faster," he's on ...

Bush tells Congress how to write an energy bill 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Bush sent a letter telling Congress what changes they can make to the energy bill so he does not veto it. Allan Hubbard wrote the letter that the White House sent to Congressional leaders (Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell and John Boehner) with a list of "deal-makers and deal-breakers." The ...


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