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Nov 14, 2006- Kaptur Touts Biofuels At Pentagon Conference

November 14, 2006

Congresswoman Kaptur, a member of the House Appropriations defensesubcommittee, spoke at a recent conference on bio-based products at thePentagon.

Also attending were Secretary Gordon England of the United States Air Force,Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns, U.S. Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) andU.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).

The Pentagon-sponsored conference supports the Defense Department's "greenprocurement" program and Section 9002 of the farm bill, which directsfederal agencies to establish procurement preference programs for biobasedproducts.

Congresswoman Kaptur, a longtime supporter of ethanol, said the Midwesternstates "have a better idea" when it comes to supplying America'senergy needs.

"We have a big job to do, and there could be no more importantdepartment of the UnitedStates than the Department of Defense,"Congresswoman Kaptur said, working together with the Department of Agriculture.

"Our country expects great things of us. And the challenge to us: willwe deliver it and meet the test of a new age and new millennium?"