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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Biotechnology</title>
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  <updated>2008-05-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007</title>
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    <updated>2008-05-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 22, 2008: Became Public Law No: 110-234.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Vetoed: H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-21:/action/158626</id>
    <updated>2008-05-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 21, 2008: Vetoed by President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-20:/action/158625</id>
    <updated>2008-05-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 20, 2008: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Sent To President: H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-15:/action/157541</id>
    <updated>2008-05-15T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May 15, 2008: Cleared for White House.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2302 Food and Energy Security Act of 2007</title>
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    <updated>2007-11-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2773 Biofuels Research and Development Enhancement Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2773/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-19:/action/118844</id>
    <updated>2007-06-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of biofuels related technologies, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2763 Biofuels Research and Development Enhancement Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2763/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-06-18:/action/118713</id>
    <updated>2007-06-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To enhance research, development, demonstration, and commercial application of biofuels related technologies, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1505 Affordable Biologics for Consumers Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1505/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-24:/action/114179</id>
    <updated>2007-05-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the approval of biosimilars, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2419 Farm Bill Extension Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2419/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-22:/action/113371</id>
    <updated>2007-05-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2012, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.2398 Creating Research Extension and Teaching Excellence for the 21st Century Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h2398/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-21:/action/113132</id>
    <updated>2007-05-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To reauthorize and provide additional funding for essential agricultural research, extension, education, and related programs, to establish the National Institutes for Food and Agriculture as an independent agency reporting to and coordinating with the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1424 Farm, Nutrition, and Community Investment Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1424/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-05-17:/action/112962</id>
    <updated>2007-05-17T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to provide for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2013, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1956 Patient Protection and Innovative Biologic Medicines Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-h1956/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-19:/action/109051</id>
    <updated>2007-04-19T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for the approval of similar biological products, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.1094 CREATE-21 Act of 2007</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/110-s1094/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-04-12:/action/108254</id>
    <updated>2007-04-12T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize and provide additional funding for essential agricultural research, extension, education, and related programs, to establish the National Institutes for Food and Agriculture as an independent agency reporting to and coordinating with the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.1496 Beating Infections through Research and Development Act of 2007</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2007-03-13:/action/96296</id>
    <updated>2007-03-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide incentives for pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and medical device companies to invest in research and development with respect to antibiotic drugs, antivirals, diagnostic tests, and vaccines that may be used to identify, treat, or prevent serious and life-threatening infectious diseases.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5266 Genetically Engineered Crop and Animal Farmer Protection Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5266/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-02:/action/49125</id>
    <updated>2006-05-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide additional protections for farmers and ranchers that may be harmed economically by genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, to ensure fairness for farmers and ranchers in their dealings with biotech companies that sell genetically engineered seeds, plants, or animals, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5271 Genetically Engineered Organism Liability Act of 2005</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5271/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-02:/action/48985</id>
    <updated>2006-05-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To assign liability for injury caused by genetically engineered organisms.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5270 Real Solutions to World Hunger Act of 2005</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5270/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-02:/action/48815</id>
    <updated>2006-05-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To ensure that efforts to address world hunger through the use of genetically engineered animals and crops actually help developing countries and peoples while protecting human health and the environment, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5267 Genetically Engineered Pharmaceutical and Industrial Crop Safety Act of 2005</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5267/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-05-02:/action/49336</id>
    <updated>2006-05-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To prohibit the open-air cultivation of genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops, to prohibit the use of common human food or animal feed as the host plant for a genetically engineered pharmaceutical or industrial chemical, to establish a tracking system to regulate the growing, handling, transportation, and disposal of pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts to prevent human, animal, and general environmental exposure to genetically engineered pharmaceutical and industrial crops and their byproducts, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5115 U.S. Healthcare Technologies Competitiveness Act of 2006</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/109-h5115/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2006-04-06:/action/50999</id>
    <updated>2006-04-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modernize the tax treatment of biomedical research corporations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: S.1281 Authorization bill FY2006-FY2010, NASA</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2005-12-30:/action/55897</id>
    <updated>2005-12-30T00:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to authorize appropriations for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for science, aeronautics, exploration, exploration capabilities, and the Inspector General, and for other purposes, for fiscal years 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;December 30, 2005: Became Public Law No: 109-155.    </content>
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