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Noem says her focus is a farm bill

South Dakota Congresswoman Kristi Noem says she’ll stay focused in her second term on what needs to get done, including a farm bill.

Noem was reelected in November and has decided against running for a leadership position for her class.

“You know, not having a farm bill is a bad situation for us and I really need to focus on that. And, beyond that we’ve got the PTC wind tax credit, we’ve got some education funds that the president has cut that we need to continue to fight for.”

Representative Noem says with this being her first lame duck session of Congress, she’s interested in seeing what will happen.

“It’s been kind of interesting because we won’t have much for committee hearings. We’ll be working a lot on negotiations but a lot of those negotiations happen, really, between the very top leadership and the president. So, we sit there and try to give as much input as we possibly can.”

Does Noem says a farm bill needs to be passed this year, “Look at this year, we don’t have any livestock disaster programs. If we don’t do anything before the end of the year, all of our livestock guys are sitting here with high feed costs and no relief.”

Noem says she’s motivated to pass the bill for farm policy. But, she says other lawmakers want to pass a farm bill this year for fiscal reasons – to use the savings from it to pay for other things and some want to postpone a farm bill until next year as part of a bigger package. She’s working to convince colleagues a farm bill is needed now.

~Thanks to Jody Heemstra, KWAT~

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