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USDA Urged to Reject Green Bay, Wis., Cheese Prices.(Originated from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 1997 by Aukofer, Frank A.

WASHINGTON--Feb. 14--Green Bay's tiny National Cheese Exchange continues to get national attention.

At the behest of Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the U.S. Senate passed a resolution Thursday expressing its opinion that the exchange should not be allowed to set milk prices.

Specter acted after dairy farmers in his state complained that the federal government was permitting low prices to be paid for milk.

The "sense of the Senate" resolution, which does not carry the force of law, passed overwhelmingly. Both Wisconsin senators, Democrats Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold, were co-sponsors of the measure and voted for it.

The resolution calls on the secretary of agriculture to immediately address a decline in milk prices by...

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