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Teddy Roosevelt: “The right of the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate interstate movement of animals exposed but not actually diseased…”

On the recordFebruary 28, 1905
The right of the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate interstate movement of animals exposed but not actually diseased must be recognized if the spread of such diseases from State to State and to other countries is to be prevented;
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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