Berg expects farm bill vote this year

GRAND FORKS — U.S. Rep. Rick Berg, R-N.D., told a business roundtable meeting in Grand Forks on Friday that he expects the farm bill to come to a vote in the current Congress.

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, “made a commitment to bring the farm bill up before the end of the year,” Berg said. “I take him at his word.”

The bill has a good chance of passing after the November election when political pressures holding up the bill are gone, he said.

“The last thing we want to do is to create this cloud of uncertainty over agriculture,” Berg told a group of about 20 representatives of the agriculture, transportation and banking industries, and others at the Chamber of Commerce office.

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