A letter to the editor in today’s Birmingham News calls on Jeff Sessions to lead the fight for Farm Bill reform. Personally, I wouldn’t count on it.
We must retool the current system of commodity payments in the federal farm bill in order to expand conservation programs suggested in the recent story on drought.
Bread for the […]

This comes to us from the Birmingham News. It seems to me that Sessions is far more concerned about reporters showing up for the meeting than he is about getting something accomplished for Alabama farmers:
Sen. Jeff Sessions has given the press two full days’ notice about his Thursday meeting with USDA chief Mike Johanns. He’s […]

Jeff Sessions voted once more against the supplemental appropriations bill as the full Senate sent the bill to the president’s desk. So let’s take a quick look at what Sessions voted against:

$123 billion for the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
Relief funds to compensate farmers for damaged crops

Jeff Sessions spent this past weekend visiting farms across Alabama to survey the crop losses due to a recent cold snap. No doubt he assured farmers that he would do everything he could to help out. However, Sessions voted against the supplemental appropriations bill that provide funds for the government to reimburse farmers for crop […]