Hacking away at 2007 (Iraqi) farm bill

On May 8, Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns took the Bush administration’s first formal step toward the 2007 farm bill.
The small move arrived in the form of a lengthy white paper titled Risk Management. It is the first of several “2007 farm bill theme papers,” the secretary will release in the run-up to the legislative debate.
The foundation-laying papers, explained Johanns, are “not to suggest policy but to inform and educate the public