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About $33 million
meant to fund the next steps in a national animal identification
system was frozen during negotiations over a $93.6 billion
agricultural bill on Tuesday.
An earlier attempt to kill the program outright was defeated,
but the House approved a measure to withhold funding for
animal ID until USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service publishes a proposed rule, setting out parameters
for the plan.
Conservatives also attempted to eliminate several programs
under the sweeping agricultural bill, including such expenditures
as $229,000 for a dairy education program in Iowa and $180,000
for a hydroponic tomato project in Ohio. All challenges
were easily defeated.
USDA did not immediately return calls for comment.
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