Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Wednesday, October 28, 2015 No shutdown, no default: Budget deal would cut popular Congress leaders, Obama back deal crop insurance program By ERICA WERNER AP Congressional Correspondent Congress got rid of other types of subsidies in a wide- WASHINGTON — ranging farm bill last year, The two-year budget deal including payments that produces savings from went to farmers regardless one of the most popular RIFURS\LHOGRUFURSSULFH programs in farm country In turn, they increased — federally subsidized crop federal support for crop insurance — and farm state LQVXUDQFH The budget deal would ODZPDNHUVDUHIXULRXV Senators and House create the savings by members said Tuesday they lowering the rate of return ZHUHQ¶W QRWL¿HG RI WKH FXW for companies that sell crop before the deal was struck, LQVXUDQFH WR IDUPHUV 7KH with Republican leaders federal government partially pushing for a vote this week subsidizes those companies RQWKHEXGJHWSDFW7KHFURS DQGLQVXUHVVRPHORVVHV The Republican insurance companies that depend on federal subsidies chairmen of the House and said in a statement that the Senate Agriculture Commit- proposed $3 billion in cuts WHHV 7H[DV 5HS 0LNH over 10 years could be &RQDZD\ DQG .DQVDV 6HQ Pat Roberts, issued a joint GHYDVWDWLQJWRWKHLQGXVWU\ Budget-writers in Wash- statement along with the ington have long eyed the top Democrats on the panels crop insurance program, objecting to the cuts, which which costs more than $9 they said would “undermine billion annually, as a pot of a critical risk-manage- DYDLODEOHPRQH\%XWIDUP ment tool for American state lawmakers have fought agriculture producers and to protect it, saying it makes FRQVXPHUV´ Both said they would more sense than other farm subsidies since it pays out YRWHDJDLQVWWKHELOO Roberts told his ZKHQIDUPHUVVXIIHUORVVHV Associated Press WASHINGTON — Striving to end a cycle of crisis, congressional leaders and the White House united Tuesday behind an ambitious budget and debt deal aimed at restoring a semblance of order to Capitol Hill and ending the threat of govern- ment shutdowns until well after a new president takes RI¿FH The outgoing House speaker, Republican John Boehner of Ohio, prepared to push the deal through his unruly chamber on Wednesday as his last act before departing Congress at WKHHQGRIWKHZHHN All but forced to resign under conservative pressure, Boehner was nonetheless JRLQJRXWRQKLVRZQWHUPV The budget deal stands as an in-your-face rebuttal to his hardline antagonists, on Capitol Hill and off, who angrily oppose spending increases and compromises with Democratic President %DUDFN2EDPD They seethed but acknowledged they were powerless to stop an agree- ment all but certain to pass with votes from Democrats and a sizable number of 5HSXEOLFDQV %RHKQHU brushed off their complaints, declaring that he intended to make good on his promise to leave a “clean barn” for his successor, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who is set to get the GOP nomination for speaker on Wednesday and win election on the House ÀRRUWKHGD\DIWHUWKDW “I didn’t want him to walk into a dirty barn full RI \RXNQRZZKDW 6R ,¶YH done my best to try to clean it up,” a good-humored Boehner told reporters after a closed-door gathering of House Republicans, his last such weekly meeting after AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke Outgoing House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio talks with reporters on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. “I don’t want (Paul Ryan) to walk into a dirty barn full of you-know-what. 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