OK/Langston Loses Grant: Oklahoma Stale Senator Looks to Cut Goat Research Grant

摘要

As Washington politicians rushed around espousing their views on the country's $l4.3-trillion debt, summer 2011, a small $300,000 grant for goat research had at least one Republican congressman calling it pork. Oklahoma U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R.-OK) was unhappy with the grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) given to Langston University in Oklahoma to create a testing center for electric fence modifications of cattle barbed wire fencing for goat containment.