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Rob Wittman
Congress OKs electronic duck stamp to fund conservation

WASHINGTON Amid a raucous, divisive windup to the 113th Congress, members found agreement on bringing duck stamps into the electronic age. Republican Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who sponsored a measure to create a nationwide electronic duck stamp for hunting licenses that channels large sums for wetlands conservation, announced its passage on Monday. The House version of the bill, sponsored by Republican Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia, passed by a vote of 401-0, meaning the bill now awaits only President Barack Obama's signature. Produced by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the pictorial stamps are formally known as Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamps and...