8010-S AMS RASM S2363.1

SSJM 8010  - S AMD89
     By Senators Rasmussen, Schoesler

ADOPTED 03/08/2005

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     WHEREAS, On February 25, 2005, the United States Department of Agriculture announced the results of the "science-based" decision to adopt the rule to lift the ban on importation of Canadian beef, for which a temporary injunction was immediately issued against the United States Department of Agriculture decision by a federal district court on February 28, 2005, and for which the United States Senate approved on March 3, 2005, Senate Joint Resolution 4 to nullify the United States Department of Agriculture rule; and
     WHEREAS, Acceptance by the international community of the United States Department of Agriculture "science-based" decision has not yet been established and therefore the United States Department of Agriculture rule would reopen the United States border to the importation of Canadian beef without also addressing the reopening of foreign markets to United States beef, even though the cause of the bans on United States beef exports was a cow infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy that originated in Canada;"

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