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By Red River Farm Network

The House Agriculture Committee bill suspends Section 5 of the Commodity Credit Corporation Act, limiting the Agriculture Secretary’s authority to use CCC funds. Chairman Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson plans to use those savings to increase reference prices. The Congressional Budget Office has disagreed with the GOP staff about those budget savings. Minnesota Representative Michelle Fischbach is a member of the Budget Committee, working to ensure the CBO scores are accurate. “There are issues with some of the CBO scores because we need to make sure that we’re paying for everything great that we’ve done in the farm bill and so we’re working with CBO to make sure that they understand how things need to be scored so we can pay for that bill.”