I wonder if they are related to the dead voters

The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.

The findings by the Government Accountability Office were released Monday as the House prepared to debate farm legislation this week that would govern subsidies and the department’s programs for the next five years. GAO auditors reviewed payments from 1999 through 2005 in the report,

“It’s unconscionable that the Department of Agriculture would think that a dead person was actively engaged in the business of farming,” said Iowa Sen. Charles Grassley, senior Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.

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