Monday's Dakota Digest from South Dakota Public Broadcasting quoted someone who really made me question the effectiveness of South Dakota's lone representative in the U.S. House, particularly as it relates to the Farm Bill that's awaiting yet another round of…
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Speaking of delay, Kristi, where's that Farm Bill? For the second year in a row, Rep. Kristi Noem has failed to deliver a Farm Bill on time. Noem's Minnesota farm-country colleague, Democratic Rep. Tim Walz captured the frustration we should…
Rep. Kristi Noem is on recess again. Theoretically, she's available to talk to South Dakotans about her ongoing failure to get a Farm Bill done. She'll surely be parading around on her horse at any rodeo she can find. But…
Holy happy-weed! Kristi Noem voted for hemp! Larry Kurtz can be hard to love, but he points out this very interesting fact about the GOP farm bill that squeaked out of the House yesterday: it includes a Democratic amendment to…
The U.S. House narrowly passed a farm bill yesterday that kills the very pragmatic and moral pairing of safety nets for farmers and eaters forged by Bob Dole and George McGovern in the 1970s. In supporting this partisan maneuver, Rep.…
Want to know someone who's not terribly worked up over Rep. Kristi Noem's failure to pass a Farm Bill over her Republican colleague's do-nothingism? Orland farmer Charlie Johnson: The corn has grown about a foot and the sun has rose…
Unwilling to shoulder responsibility for her legislative failure, Congresswoman Kristi Noem is peddling the fantasy that President Barack Obama caused the House to vote down the Farm Bill yesterday: Noem told reporters that House leaders believed they had enough votes…
Congresswoman Kristi Noem is "incredibly disappointed"; she's also incredibly impotent. She and Speaker John Boehner failed to pass the Farm Bill in the House yesterday, primarily because one out of four House Republicans told Noem and Boehner to go jump…