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House Committee Approves WMD Legislation

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Thursday, June 24th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker The House Homeland Security Committee yesterday unanimously approved several bipartisan bills including one aimed at improving the nation's preparedness and response to threats from biological weapons and another that would loosen some of the spending restrictions on how states and localities can spend their homeland security grant funds. Another bill that was approved would re-establish within the Department of Homeland Security a Chief Veterinarian Officer that would have primary responsibility for veterinary medicine and veterinary public health.…

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