WASHINGTON — Congress is moving toward enacting a $290 billion farm bill for a second time after clerical error in the first bill threatened delivery of U.S. food aid abroad.
The House today voted by a 317-109 margin — a two-thirds majority — to override President Bush’s second veto of the legislation. The Senate is also expected to override the veto.
Most of the bill was enacted in May, when both the House and Senate easily overrode Bush’s first veto of the legislation. But 34 pages of the bill that would extend foreign aid programs were mistakenly missing from the parchment copy Congress sent the White House, so that section has not yet become law.
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