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<blockquote>Today, thousands of independent U.S. cattle producers who are members of R-CALF USA expressed their heartfelt gratitude to a bipartisan group of nine U.S. senators who courageously stepped forward this afternoon to file a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to the Final Rule issued by the United States Department of Agriculture (<acronym title="United States Department of Agriculture, Bought and Paid for by The Big Meat Packers">USDA</acronym>) on Dec. 29, 2004, that would reopen the Canadian border to live cattle and additional beef products on March 7, 2005.<br />n<br />nSen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Sen. Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., led the charge, and others as well stepped forward to protect both the U.S. cattle herd and U.S. consumers from the introduction of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (<acronym title="Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy">BSE</acronym>) into the United States.<br />n<br />nOther senators who took the lead on this critical issue included: Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.</blockquote><br />n<br />nMontana's junior Senator Conrad Burns seems to be missing from <a href="http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=3876" target="_new">this list</a> of courageous Senators. I guess the cattle industry in Montana isn't important to him. He's proved it more than once like when he voted to <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/496-You-Bet.html" target="_new">kill the Country of Origin Labeling program</a> that the cattle industry in the state wanted. With this kind of help who needs enemies.<br />n<br />n<b>His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith</b>