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Douglas Alexander: “Mr. President, I offer two amendments. They are at the desk. The first one has to do with land grant university research…”

On the recordDecember 12, 2007
Mr. President, I offer two amendments. They are at the desk. The first one has to do with land grant university research funding, to try to get back on track a terrific program the Congress passed in 1998 to properly fund value-added research for our land grant universities across this country. That is No. 1. No. 2 is to amend the amendment of the Senator from Colorado, which is a part of the bill, so that we would limit 100 kilowatt wind towers to farm areas and not residential areas. Those are the two amendments. I wish to begin by summarizing the land grant university research amendment. What amendment 3551 does is it adds $74 million over the last 3 years of the farm bill for agricultural research at land grant colleges.
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Labour Party
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Discussing two amendments related to land grant university research funding and wind tower regulations.

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