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In 2010, two members of Congress held a colorful press conference, with goats in tow, to announce their intention to try to end federal mohair (a fabric made from goat hair) subsidies.These subsidies, long the target of presidents and members of Congress from both parties, dated from the mid-1950s, when Congress decided to support mohair production as a precaution against wool shortages.The subsidies were cut in 1995, but reemerged a few years later.The efforts of Chaffetz and Weiner to end the estimated $750,000 in subsidies, meanwhile, failed. Why might programs such as the mohair subsidy be so difficult to end?
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