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farm bloc

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  1. A group of both Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the farming states of the Middle West that pressures the federal government to adopt policies favorable to farmers.


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The only encouraging sign that the programs may be controlled is the infighting that has sundered the once unified farm bloc.

From Time Magazine Archive

Impartial House observers rate him thus: An able and industrious legislator who has supplied the House farm bloc with its political motive power.

From Time Magazine Archive

The French maintained that Germany's modern, competitive industry had gained so much by the Common Market that it was now time for France's efficient, highly productive farm bloc to get some gravy too.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the heart of parity prices stands the perennial farm bloc target: the parity formula itself.

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If Jefferson were writing today he might say that the farm bloc contained the "deposit for substantial and genuine virtue."

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)

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