The U.S. Senate successfully voted to override the presidential veto of the new farm bill Thursday. The veto override passed by a vote of 85-13, far exceeding the necessary two-thirds majority.The action would have effectively made the entire $286 billion bill into law, if not for a technical error by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. The House voted Wednesday to override the president’s veto, but just hours later it was revealed that one of the titles of the bill had not been included in the copy sent to President Bush.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said that the technical error is just a minor problem and that it will be solved soon. “I just want to make sure that there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind now, 14 of the 15 titles of this farm bill are now the law of the land. We don’t require anybody else’s signature,” said Harkin on the Senate floor. “We do have one little glitch. I think (it’s) probably an innocent mistake, a clerical error, that Title 3 was not included and we’ll deal with that at some other point.”

Harkin said he has been in contact with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and USAID (Agency for International Development), one of the programs that falls under Title 3 of the farm bill. “They tell me, have told my staff, that basically they could get by [for] two weeks without us having to do anything,” said Harkin.

Congress will be on a two-week recess for the Memorial Day holiday starting next week.