December 14, 2007 4:28PM 

# Talk About a Friday News Dump 

By [Sallie James](https://www.cato.org/people/sallie-james) 

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The Senate passed the Farm Bill this afternoon by a margin of 79 to a brave 14 (roll call vote [here](http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00434)). Readers of this blog will be sufficiently familiar with [our](https://www.cato.org/2007/12/12/i-hope-you-like-asparagus/) [views](https://www.cato.org/2007/12/12/our-depressingly-bipartisan-farm-policy/) [on](https://www.cato.org/2007/12/10/senate-farm-bill-by-the-end-of-the-week/) [U.S.](http://www.freetrade.org/node/697) [farm](http://www.freetrade.org/node/609) [policy](http://www.freetrade.org/node/31) so I won’t reiterate them here. Suffice it to say that it will be interesting to see if President Bush makes good with his veto threat.

Happy Holidays to the American taxpayer/​consumer/​trade partner from the U.S. Senate!

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