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Ken Cook is president of Environmental Working Group, a public interest research and advocacy organization known for its Farm Subsidy Database. The author of dozens of articles, opinion pieces and reports on agricultural, public health and environmental topics, "[Cook's] fingerprints can be found on nearly two decades of U.S. farm law" (Omaha World Herald). Read more about the authors.

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Bush Administration on House Payment Limit Reforms

From the Statement of Administration Policy on the subsidy lobby's farm bill (page 2, paragraph 2):

...the Administration does not support subsidies to farmers with an Adjusted Gross Income above $200,000 averaged over three years, who are among the wealthiest 2 percent of American taxpayers. The Administration strongly opposes the complete elimination of the payment cap on marketing loan payments, which would undermine the partial reform of payment limits in the bill and allows the largest producers to capture even larger subsidy payments.

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