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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.</text>
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        <text>Executive Comment Requested from USDA.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Burns, Max [R-GA-12]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[Minority Farmers Fairness Act of 2003 - Provides an additional opportunity for judicial or administrative relief for those farmers whose petitions or claims against the Department of Agriculture for discriminatory operation of farm benefit programs were denied.<p>Requires that such request be submitted within one year of the later of the date of: (1) enactment of this Act; or (2) petition or claim denial.]]></text>
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    <title>Minority Farmers Fairness Act of 2003</title>
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      <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.</text>
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