It’s Farm Bill Time, and Pork Is on the Menu

• By Emily Pierce and John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Oct. 30, 2007, Midnight

Fresh off their successful defeat of the “hippie museum” project backed by New York Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senate conservatives have begun the tedious process of scouring the chamber’s $280 billion farm bill for provisions they can use to lampoon the earmarking process and hopefully pull from the bill.