Tag: Subsidies

Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., voted for the farm bill last week after voting against it last year. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Farm subsidies, political leverage, and the ratchet of statism

Timothy P. Carney · February 6, 2014 5:00 am

K Street in Washington. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

How the party leadership and K Street won the farm bill fight

Timothy P. Carney · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., second from left, celebrates with fellow committee members on Capitol Hill on Tuesday after Congress gave its final approval to a sweeping five-yearÃÂ farmÃÂ bill. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Congress passes long-awaited five-year farm bill

Sean Lengell · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

President Barack Obama speaks about his ConnetED goal of connecting 99% of students to next generation broadband and wireless technology within five years, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014, at Buck Lodge Middle School in Adelphi, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to sign farm bill Friday in Michigan

Meghashyam Mali · February 4, 2014 5:00 am

A new farm bill that could become law as soon as next week would require a choice between different subsidy approaches that require producers to suffer losses before they can get payouts. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Farm bill plows under direct payments, but farmers aren’t complaining

Associated Press · February 1, 2014 5:00 am

The New York Giants and New York Jets both play in MetLife Stadium -- where Sunday's Super Bowl will be played. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A first: A Super Bowl in an unsubsidized stadium

Timothy P. Carney · January 31, 2014 5:00 am

The bill would continue to heavily subsidize major crops such as corn, soybeans, wheat, rice and cotton but would shift many of those subsidies toward crop insurance programs. (Thinkstock)

Congress agrees on five-year farm bill

Sean Lengell · January 27, 2014 5:00 am

Republicans to Unveil ‘Conservative Reform Alternative to Obamacare’ in Senate

Daniel Halper · January 26, 2014 8:17 pm

Washington, D.C., has plenty of buldings and people, but it doesn't have many farms, or farmers. Yet thousands of residents in and around the nation's capital receive millions of dollars every year in federal farm subsidies. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Millions in farm subsidies flow freely to DC residents who don’t actually farm

Susan Ferrechio · January 15, 2014 5:00 am

Infographic: D.C. farm subsidy recipients

Washington Examiner · January 15, 2014 5:00 am

Walmart and McDonald’s hit as ‘welfare queens’

Joseph Lawler · January 3, 2014 5:00 am

Sweet deal for the sugar industry

Sean Lengell · January 3, 2014 5:00 am