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        <text>Executive Comment Requested from USDA.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture.</text>
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        <text>Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Boswell, Leonard L. [D-IA-3]</fullName>
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        <fullName>Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct studies on: (1) the economic and trade impact of exports of food products from cloned animals; (2) Department of Agriculture programs to monitor products from cloned animals in the food supply; (3) the health effects and costs attributable to milk from cloned animals in the food supply; and (4) the safety of food products derived from cloned animals.</p>]]></text>
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    <title>To require studies by the Secretary of Agriculture on the effects of food products from cloned animals entering the food supply.</title>
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        <title>To require studies by the Secretary of Agriculture on the effects of food products from cloned animals entering the food supply.</title>
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