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Although Agriculture Department officials, taxpayer friends in the House and Senate, and outside reform groups like NTU provided many ideas at the start of 2007 to promote farm program reform, Congress largely ignored the recommendations and settled on a massive $300 billion spending plan that increases government involvement in the food sector.

Congress could have stopped agricultural payments to millionaire landowners and removed trade-distorting tariffs, but they didn't. Instead, the final Farm Bill legislation (H.R. 2419) leaves existing crop subsidies largely unchanged and hands out new funds to special interests not traditionally included in the bill.

This super-sized Farm Bill isn't the fiscally responsible policy reform that taxpayers deserve. Thankfully, President Bush has (at last!) begun to use his veto pen against wasteful spending, and he's announced he will use it to stop the Farm Bill.

We need to support the President's bold and courageous move by telling Members of Congress to join him. Please, contact your lawmakers today and ask them to uphold the President's Farm Bill veto.