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Source: The Hill





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Dems say Obama backtracking on land preservation
By Walter Alarkon


Posted: 05/19/09 07:38 PM
Key Democrats in Congress are claiming that President Obama is backtracking on his previous support for government programs that preserve wildlife, wetlands and farms.

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, are expressing frustration that Obama wants to reduce funding for land conservation programs after he has backed other conservation efforts.

Obama, when he was a member of the Senate last year, voted for a bill creating farming programs and setting new funding levels for existing ones. And earlier this year, Obama signed a long-stalled massive lands bill into law.

A spokesman for the Senate Agriculture Committee said that Harkin has “consistently been opposed to cuts in conservation funding and to mandatory programs in the 2008 farm bill.”............................

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