farm bloc

Cultural  

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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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Its numbers much diminished by increasing mechanization on ever larger tracts, the farm bloc has lost much of its political clout in Washington and the nation.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one eye on this procedure, non-farmers ask: What more does the farm bloc want?

From Time Magazine Archive

No new farm bloc has formed on the Hill because the new food equation embraces everyone from Wall Street bankers to the hired hand.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here we have the organization joining with the farm bloc in declaring the legislature to be its own master.

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