Wrong bill" veto sets up Thursday farm bill rematch between Congress and Bush

: The House overwhelmingly rejected President Saint George W. Bush's veto of a $290 billion (€184 billion) farm bill, but when it turned out that the vetoed measure was missing 34 pages owed to a "clerical error," it put the whole procedure up for a repetition on Thursday.

Only hours before the House's 316-108 ballot Wednesday, Shrub had vetoed the five-year measure, saying it was too expensive and gave too much money to affluent husbandmen when farm incomes are high. The Senate then was expected to follow lawsuit quickly.

Action stalled Wednesday, however, after the find that United States Congress had omitted a 34-page section of the measurement when lawmakers sent the monolithic measure to the White Person House.

That agency Shrub vetoed a different measure from the 1 United States Congress passed, raising inquiries that the eventual law would be unconstitutional.

In order to avoid those possible problems, House Democrats hoped to go through the full bill, again, on Thursday under expedited regulations usually reserved for unopposed legislation. The Senate would then make likewise. The right version would then be sent to Shrub under a new measure figure for another expected veto. Today in Americas

Lawmakers also will have got to go through an extension of current farm law, which runs out Friday.

The White Person House, almost gleefully, seized on the muff and said the mix-up could give United States Congress clip to repair the "bloated" bill.

"We are trying to understand the branchings of this congressional farm measure foul-up. We haven't establish a case in point for a congressional blooper of this magnitude," said George C. Scott Stanzel, a White Person House spokesman. "It looks like it may be back to square one for them."

A spokesman for the Democratic Speaker of the U.S. House, Nancy Pelosi, shot back:

"Partisan sniping won't work out this clerical mistake that even the White Person House failed to catch," said John Drew Hammill.

Wednesday's hang-up stemmed from an mistake made while printing the statute law on parchment before sending it to Bush.

Democratic Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, the bulk leader, said the subdivision in inquiry — which trades with trade and international nutrient assistance programmes — was never printed. Indeed, the final, 628-page version of the measure leaps consecutive from "Title II" on preservation programmes to "Title IV" on nutrition programs.

The statute law includes election-year subsidies for husbandmen and nutrient postages for the mediocre — disbursement that lawmakers could advance when they are back in their territories over the Memorial Day weekend.

The veto was the 10th of Bush's presidency. United States Congress so far have overridden him once, on a H2O undertakings bill.

With Shrub at record low pressures in the polls in the waning calendar months of his term, it was brother Republicans who joined with bulk Democrats in rejecting the veto. Republican lawmakers are apprehensive about their ain prospects less than six calendar months from the Election Day in November.

About two-thirds of the measure would pay for nutrition programmes such as as nutrient stamps; about $40 billion (€25.39 billion) is for farm subsidies; and further $30 billion (€19.04 billion) would travel to husbandmen to idle their land and to other environmental programs.

Congressional Republicans overwhelmingly abandoned Shrub in vote to go through the measure last week, overlooking its cost amid public concern about the weak economic system and high gas and grocery store prices. Supporters praised the disbursement on nutrient postages and exigency nutrient aid.

Bush said the statute law needlessly would spread out government. He cited one new programme in the measure that would pay more than to maize agriculturists and others if agribusiness gross were to drop significantly in the adjacent five years. This program, he said, could add millions of dollars to the cost of the bill.

He added that minor cutbacks to subsidies for affluent husbandmen were not sufficient.

"At a clip when nett farm income is projected to increase by more than than $28 billion (€17.77 billion) in 1 year, the American taxpayer should not be forced to subsidise that grouping of husbandmen who have got adjusted gross incomes of up to $1.5 million (€950,000)," the president said in his veto message.

After discovering Wednesday's bungle, Democrats originally proposed bringing up and passing the lacking subdivision separately and sending that to Bush, thus allowing the full measurement to go law. But Republicans argued that mightiness not be constitutional because Shrub actually vetoed a version that United States Congress never considered.