The Republican-controlled Congress has been pursuing appropriations bills based on the sequester targets, which the White House has promised to veto. All of this points toward having an omnibus spending bill in September or a continuing resolution.The Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture of the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up its version of the FY2016 ag appropriations bill tomorrow. The House counterpart moved through the full House Appropriations Committee last week after it had passed through the subcommittee there. However, these spending blueprints may never see the light of day as the appropriations process has become bogged down in an effort to review the sequestration implemented by the 2011 Budget Cont...

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