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        <fullName>Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Rice Farmer Fairness Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to require, as a condition on the receipt of direct or counter-cyclical payments for rice produced in Texas where the the principal producer of the rice is a tenant or sharecropper, that the producers on the farm agree to retain the rice cropland in production or a cropping system rotation for the next crop year.</p>]]></text>
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