Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, July 28, 1990                   TAG: 9007280078
SECTION: NATL                    PAGE: A-12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

FARM BILL CLEARS SENATE

The 70-21 vote came late in the afternoon, following compromise on scores of amendments that had bogged down the Senate for days.

Floor managers cautioned their colleagues that the budget summit negotiations with the White House would inevitably mean changes in the planned spending of $54 billion over the next five years.

The House is near passage of its version, and a conference between the two houses will be necessary to agree on a single bill to send to the White House - where President Bush is expected to get veto recommendations from agencies concerned that the bill costs too much.

Among the environmental breakthroughs in the bill is a ban on the export of agricultural chemicals illegal in the United States.

The bill also establishes standards for use of the phrase "organically grown" and sets new policies designed to protect wetlands and forests.

Before recessing for the weekend, the House fought off an effort to eliminate government subsidies to honey producers. The Senate earlier in the week cut the subsidies from its bill.