[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3181]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    DISCHARGE PETITION--S.J. RES. 4

  Mr. CONRAD. Mr. President, today pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 802(c), I have 
submitted a petition to discharge the Senate Committee on Agriculture, 
Nutrition, and Forestry from consideration of S.J. Res. 4, a joint 
resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the rule relating 
to risk zones for introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, 
submitted by the Department of Agriculture under chapter 8 of title 5, 
United States Code, the Congressional Review Act.

                           DISCHARGE PETITION

       We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with chapter 8 
     of title 5, United States Code, hereby direct that the Senate 
     Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry be 
     discharged from further consideration of S.J. Res. 4, a 
     resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the 
     rule submitted by the Department of Agriculture relating to 
     risk zones for the introduction of bovine spongiform 
     encephalopathy, and further, that the resolution be placed 
     upon the Legislative Calendar under General Orders.
         Kent Conrad, Craig Thomas, Byron Dorgan, Ken Salazar, 
           Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Jay Rockefeller, John Kerry, 
           Conrad Burns, Tim Johnson, Dianne Feinstein, Jeff 
           Bingaman, Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Ron Wyden, Barack 
           Obama, Chuck Schumer, Paul Sarbanes, Carl Levin, 
           Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Jack Reed, Patrick Leahy, 
           Tom Harkin, Mark Dayton, Russell Feingold, Barbara 
           Mikulski, James Jeffords, Herb Kohl, Jon Corzine, Chris 
           Dodd, E. Benjamin Nelson, Mary L. Landrieu.

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