State and district media are beginning to report on yesterday's Farm Bill vote. The Post Bulletin headline tells an interesting story: Reps. Walz, Kline help push Farm Bill to veto-proof margin in Congress. The lead:
Reps. Tim Walz, D-Mankato, and John Kline, R-Lakeville, helped push passage of the Farm Bill to a veto-proof margin on Wednesday.
More than half the Republican caucus, 100 members in all, joined 218 Democrats in support of the bill on a 318-106 roll call vote. . . .
With a lead like that, the usual conservative commenters who regularly trash Walz in the Post-Bulletin's discussions are unusually silent. Maybe it's the two sidebar articles beside Edward Felker's report, Most Minnesota lawmakers vote for farm bill and Republicans abandon Bush on new farm bill.
The Star Tribune reports House sends veto-proof farm measure to Senate.
At the Wall Street Journal, Katherine Rizzo is pretty snarky about rural America, but we rather like the sound of the headline for her post, The Farm Bill: A Testament to the Power of Rural Voters. The description of Southern Minnesota also warms the heart of this old heifer, "Tim Walz, from seriously agricultural southern Minnesota," but we're not sure where she got the idea that there's a tight race going on in the district.
Rizzo must mean the Republican primary.
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