[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 16980-16981]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          EARMARK DECLARATION

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                           HON. LOUIE GOHMERT

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 7, 2009

  Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker, pursuant to the Republican Leadership 
standards on earmarks, I am submitting the following information 
regarding funding received in my district as part of H.R. 2997, the 
Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and 
Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2010.
  Stephen F. Austin Medicinal and Bioactive Crop Research Project. 
Stephen F. Austin State University, Box 6078 SFA Station, Nacogdoches, 
Texas 75962, $280,000, in the National Institute of Food and 
Agriculture RE/FA account, for the continuation of medicinal and 
bioactive crop research at the National Center for Pharmaceutical 
Crops. The initiative seeks to discover anti-cancer agents from plants 
and develop new crops for securing nationally strategic 
pharmaceuticals. Successful implementation of this research will 
improve human health, secure the U.S. supply of critical 
pharmaceuticals that currently come from foreign suppliers, and 
establish high value crops to revitalize the U.S. rural economy, while 
ultimately saving and improving America's lives.

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