Without an updated Farm Bill, price control measures established in 1949 go into effect.
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Democrats tried to amend the bill to include price caps for wholesale electricity prices in the West, but the effort failed.
As Bill Farren-Price of PPI, a consultancy, points out, it is more informative to watch what Saudi Arabia does than what OPEC says.
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Representative Marion Berry (D-Ark.) has a bill to impose federal price controls on prescription drugs through Medicare.
They give secret rebates to the private sector but bill Medicaid for the list price.
Georgia Republican Tom Price said the bill was nothing but political pandering by Democrats.
Under the bill, a minimum retail price will be set for tobacco and its sale and advertising will be restricted.
President Bush has threatened to veto the measure, but the House is also considering a health care bill that would raise the price of cigarettes.
San Jose Mercury News reports that Democratic State Senator Curren Price submitted a bill focused on the initiative, and that it was passed with no opposition.
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The bill also includes a minimum price for carbon emissions and the setting of feed-in tariffs for individual consumers who are able to generate their own renewable energy supplies.
The rapid decline in U.S. emissions has taken some pressure off the White House after the 2010 failure of a cap-and-trade bill meant to put a price on carbon emissions.
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Thanks to Newt Gingrich and his band of zealous Republicans, the 1996 farm bill abolished the guaranteed minimum price, increased the quota for imports and, most importantly, scrapped the domestic cartel of producers.
With much other work, including an expiration of the farm bill that could double the price of milk, still undone, the Senate and House are both meeting in rare Sunday sessions this afternoon.
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We tallied the average costs of some key elements of a first date: alcohol (specifically, a 1.5 liter bottle of Livingston Cellars, Gallo Chablis or Chenin Blanc wine), food (a 11- to 12-inch pizza from Pizza Hut), entertainment (an evening movie ticket), grooming (a barbershop visit), suiting up (a dry-cleaning bill) and transportation (price per gallon of gasoline).
"You can't beat the price, " said Bill Herold, whose son Collin was playing in the final foursome with Freeman.
"The cut is less than the corresponding drop in share price, " notes Bill Bonello, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets.
So, the long-awaited Energy Bill has finally arrived, bringing price increases for consumers, confidence to investors and good news for the UK's biggest polluters.
If enough persons want to own T-bills at any price, even at a negative rate of interest, then THAT is the appropriate price at which the bill should trade.
The NCTA has already starting posturing on its blog, Cable Tech Talk, with a post highlighting all the wonderful changes in the video distribution industry in the past 20 years -- however, curiously, the upwardly creeping price of the average bill wasn't mentioned.
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Paying by direct debit will save 7% on an average energy bill and signing up to an online price plan will also bring reductions.
Since users already have a mobile-phone account, he hopes to sell home-delivered chillied chicken burgers via mobiles, and simply add the price to the monthly telephone bill.
Economic growth this year is expected to hit a repectable 5.3% - and growth is sure to be spurred once the rebuilding begins in earnest, although the government has yet to put a firm price on the daunting reconstruction bill.
"We see a stabilizing trend in the ultra-luxury segment, as high-net-worth buyers pursue the very best properties at opportunistic price points, " says Bill Fandel of Peaks Real Estate Sotheby's International Realty, who handled the sale of the Bootjack Ranch, via an e-mail.
Republican leaders disagreed, saying the bill will create jobs but at a reasonable price.
Even worse, the bill would force insurers to charge the same price to each applicant, regardless of his or her age or health.
If an energy bill passes which does nothing extreme to affect price or demand, then our chances of having gasoline prices lower in future or at least lower than they otherwise would be are enhanced.
The company selected the unusual design and low price after consulting with retailers, says Bill Hadam, marketing director for digital audio at Samsung.
Before coming to London the German Chancellor was in Brussels talking not about the EU Budget but, instead, about the need for long-term EU reform - in particular the need for "more Europe" to control the tax and spending decisions of member states as the price of the German Treasury footing the bill for their problems and debts.
This volatility is the price we pay for returns above T-Bill rates.
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