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  <title>Open Congress : Major Bill Actions in Agricultural pests</title>
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  <updated>2012-09-27T20:00:00Z</updated>
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    <title>Bill Signed by President: S.3552 Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012</title>
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    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-27:/action/342763</id>
    <updated>2012-09-27T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 27, 2012: Signed by President.    </content>
  </entry>
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    <title>Bill Enacted: S.3552 Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3552/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-27:/action/342847</id>
    <updated>2012-09-27T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 27, 2012: Became Public Law No: 112-177.    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Bill Sent To President: S.3552 Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3552/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-19:/action/341948</id>
    <updated>2012-09-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;September 19, 2012: Presented to President.    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6470 PESTT Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6470/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-19:/action/341797</id>
    <updated>2012-09-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To define urban rodent control for purposes of clarifying the control of nuisance mammals and birds carried out by the Wildlife services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and by the private sector, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3606 Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3606/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-19:/action/341900</id>
    <updated>2012-09-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to establish an improved regulatory process for injurious wildlife to prevent the introduction and establishment in the United States of nonnative wildlife and wild animal pathogens and parasites that are likely to cause harm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3605 Restoring Effective Environmental Protection Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3605/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-19:/action/342007</id>
    <updated>2012-09-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to clarify Congressional intent regarding the regulation of the use of pesticides in or near navigable waters, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3568 Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3568/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-18:/action/341114</id>
    <updated>2012-09-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to create a Citrus Disease Research and Development Trust Fund to support research on diseases impacting the citrus industry, to renew and modify the temporary duty suspensions on certain cotton shirting fabrics, and to modify and extend the Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3552 Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3552/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-09-12:/action/339975</id>
    <updated>2012-09-12T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to reauthorize the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6308 Transparency for Lethal Control Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6308/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-08-01:/action/338564</id>
    <updated>2012-08-01T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To direct the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, to submit to Congress, and make available to the public on the Internet, a report on the animals killed under the Wildlife Services program of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6194 U.S. Agricultural Sector Relief Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6194/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-07-24:/action/337279</id>
    <updated>2012-07-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To ensure the viability and competitiveness of the United States agricultural sector.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6089 Healthy Forest Management Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6089/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-07-08:/action/335797</id>
    <updated>2012-07-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To address the bark beetle epidemic, drought, deteriorating forest health conditions, and high risk of wildfires on National Forest System land and land under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in the United States by expanding authorities established in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 to provide emergency measures for high-risk areas identified by such States, to make permanent Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management authority to conduct good-neighbor cooperation with States to reduce wildfire risks, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.6083 Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h6083/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-07-08:/action/335758</id>
    <updated>2012-07-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To provide for the reform and continuation of agricultural and other programs of the Department of Agriculture through fiscal year 2017, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5973 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h5973/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-06-19:/action/334183</id>
    <updated>2012-06-19T20:00:00Z</updated>
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Making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5960 Depleting Risk from Insect Infestation, Soil Erosion, and Catastrophic Fire Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h5960/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-06-18:/action/333958</id>
    <updated>2012-06-18T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To amend the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 to improve the response to insect infestations and related diseases and to change the funding source for the Healthy Forests Reserve Program, to codify the stewardship end result contracting and good neighbor authorities, and to amend the emergency watershed protection program to improve post fire rehabilitation, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5864 Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2012</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h5864/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-05-29:/action/332172</id>
    <updated>2012-05-29T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To establish an improved regulatory process for injurious wildlife to prevent the introduction and establishment in the United States of nonnative wildlife and wild animal pathogens and parasites that are likely to cause harm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.3240 Farm bill</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s3240/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-05-23:/action/331932</id>
    <updated>2012-05-23T20:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill to reauthorize agricultural programs through 2017, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.5683 Veterans' Job Corps Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h5683/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-05-08:/action/330182</id>
    <updated>2012-05-08T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To authorize the President to establish the Veterans' Job Corps as a means of providing gainful employment to unemployed veterans and widows of veterans through the performance of useful public works, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2375 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s2375/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-04-25:/action/326696</id>
    <updated>2012-04-25T20:00:00Z</updated>
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An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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  <entry>
    <title>Bill Introduced: S.2365 WEST Act</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-s2365/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-04-24:/action/326460</id>
    <updated>2012-04-24T20:00:00Z</updated>
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A bill to promote the economic and energy security of the United States, and for other purposes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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    <title>Bill Introduced: H.R.4318 To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.</title>
    <link href="http://www.opencongress.org/bill/112-h4318/show" rel="alternate"/>
    <id>tag:opencongress.org,2012-03-28:/action/324175</id>
    <updated>2012-03-28T20:00:00Z</updated>
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To prohibit the use, production, sale, importation, or exportation of any pesticide containing atrazine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    </content>
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