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 TO AMEND U.S. TROOP READINESS, VETERANS' CARE, KATRINA RECOVERY, AND 
              IRAQ ACCOUNTABILITY APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2007

  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the 
Committee on Agriculture be discharged from further consideration of S. 
1716 and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       The bill (S. 1716) to amend the U.S. Troop Readiness, 
     Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability 
     Appropriations Act, 2007, to strike a requirement relating to 
     forage producers.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mrs. MURRAY. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the bill be 
read a third time and passed, the motion to reconsider be laid upon the 
table, and any statements relating to the measure be printed in Record.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1716) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1716

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. CONTRACT WAIVER.

       The U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, 
     and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007 (Public Law 
     110-28; 121 Stat. 112) is amended by striking section 9012.

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