[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 27]
[Senate]
[Pages 36357-36358]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              EXPLANATORY STATEMENT TO ACCOMPANY H.R. 2664

  Ms. CANTWELL. Mr. President, the explanatory statement to accompany 
H.R. 2764, which includes the Omnibus

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Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2008, inadvertently omitted the 
following items for which I had made a request to the Agriculture, 
Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies 
Subcommittee and for which I had submitted the appropriate letter of 
pecuniary interest. Those items are: Under the Cooperative State 
Research, Education, and Extension Service Special Research Grants 
account, the Pacific Northwest Small Fruit Research Center for Idaho, 
Oregon and Washington, operated in cooperation with Washington State 
University, which was awarded $329,000; under the Agriculture Research 
Service Salaries & Expenses account, the Potato Research Enhancement 
Project in Prosser, WA, co-located with the Irrigated Agriculture 
Research and Extension Center of Washington State University, which was 
awarded $288,000 and under the Animal and Plant Health Inspection 
Service account, the Washington Clean Plant Network which was awarded 
$225,000. All three of these projects are essential to the ongoing 
development of my home state's vital agriculture industry. I thank 
Chairman Kohl and Ranking Member Bennett for their work to correct the 
record with respect to these three projects.
  Mr. KOHL. I thank the Senator from Washington. I have reviewed her 
requests to our subcommittee and she is correct. The record should 
reflect her requests.
  Mr. BENNETT. I concur with Senator Kohl, the subcommittee chairman, 
in this action.

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