11.   A refusal to end the sugar program may place sugar refineries in jeopardy.

12.   After months of contentious and costly lobbying campaigns, the Senate overwhelmingly rejected a bid Wednesday to limit the federal sugar program to two years.

13.   But that sugar program, renewed every five years along with the rest of the farm bill, is no longer a sacred cow.

14.   But the down-home lobbyists from farming communities around Lake Okeechobee disputed the notion that the sugar program benefits only a few millionaire growers.

15.   But the issue that has given Miller the most notoriety is his attempt to kill the sugar program.

16.   But the sugar program is costly to consumers, the report charged.

17.   But the sugar program is costly to consumers, the opponents charged.

18.   But until this year, Frydenlund said, the sugar program had not directly cost taxpayers anything.

19.   Critics of the federal sugar program say that the continually rising sugar production across the country just proves that sugar is a sweetheart deal.

20.   Critics of the U.S. sugar price support program also seized on the investigation of Archer Daniels as another reason to criticize.