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Farm Hands on the Potomac - Senate confirms Northey for top USDA job

02/28/18 6:01 AM By Daniel Enoch
KEYWORDS Bill Northey casey creamer jamie Clover adams john pagel laura wood peterson martin barbre nick goeser sean cairncross
Iowa ag Secretary Bill Northey was finally confirmed by the Senate Tuesday as USDA’s undersecretary for farm programs after Sen. Ted Cruz dropped a hold on the nomination he’d kept for four months in a dispute over biofuel policy.
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Daniel Enoch
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