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| | Rogers (AL03) :: Press Release :: Rogers, Bachus, Bonner Secure $450,000 for Alabama Beef Safety (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Washington, DC - Congressmen Mike Rogers, Spencer Bachus, and Jo Bonner announced today the House Committee on Appropriations passed a bill that includes $450,000 to help further secure Alabama’s beef supply from an outbreak of BSE, or Mad Cow Disease. |
 | | Rogers, Bachus, and Bonner helped earmark the funds for the Alabama Beef Connection (ABC), a statewide program that utilizes electronic identification technology on livestock to track individual animals as might be required. |
 | | Rogers said the bill must still be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and then pass both chambers in the bill’s Conference Report. |
| www.house.gov /apps/list/press/al03_rogers/beefdel.html (242 words) |
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