Most got provisions they can support—or at least live with—but one of best things about compromise plan is that fight is over Few associations got everything they wanted in the Agriculture Act of 2014—which now awaits the signature of President Barack Obama—but most got something they needed after more than two years of partisan wrangling and interest-group clashes. But the feeling for many association lobbyists was relief that the fighting about the five-year, $500 billion bill was over. "It was exhausting," said Mary Kay Thatcher, senior director of congressional relations at the American Farm Bureau Federation. "It sort of takes over your life. You think, ‘Should I plan… Read More