Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I would like to insert into the Record a letter from the American Farm Bureau Federation urging support of this legislation. I would also like to point out that this legislation enjoyed unanimous support from both the Republican and Democratic sides of the dais in the full Committee on Energy and Commerce. American Farm Bureau Federation<SUP>'</SUP>, Washington, DC, March 8, 2011. Hon. Fred Upton, Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Upton: The American Farm Bureau Federation encourages your support of H.R. 525, the Veterinary Public Health Amendments Act of 2011. This legislation, scheduled for floor consideration today, would amend the Public Health Service Act by adding veterinary public health as one of the groups eligible for grants to train the public health workforce, and would make veterinarians studying public health eligible for loan repayment. The U.S. faces a critical shortage of veterinarians in public health practice areas such as food safety and security, bioterrorism and emergency preparedness, environmental health, regulatory medicine, diagnostic laboratory medicine, food systems veterinary medicine and biomedical research.…”