In Tuesday’s Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack laid out his vision of using the Commodity Credit Corporation as a way to fund farm bill programs. “I think if we could be a bit more creative about the structure of the farm bill, that this is a vehicle, as we did with ARC and PLC, that essentially funds the resources for those programs.” Vilsack assured lawmakers the tool would be used in a fiscally responsible way. “We’ll never just for one thing, as has happened in the past, drain the account and force you to replenish it.”
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