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<item congress="114" measure-type="s" measure-number="655" measure-id="id114s655" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2015-03-04" update-date="2015-04-02">
<title>A bill to prohibit the use of funds by the Secretary of the Interior to make a final determination on the listing of the northern long-eared bat under the Endangered Species Act of 1973.</title>
<summary summary-id="id114s655v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2015-04-02">
<action-date>2015-03-04</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>This bill prohibits the Department of the Interior from using any funds to make a determination on the listing of the northern long-eared bat (myotis septentrionalis) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. Interior proposed in October 2013 to list the northern long-eared bat as endangered.</p>]]></summary-text>
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<dc:contributor>Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress</dc:contributor>
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