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- ↑ Text of A resolution designating September 2007 as “National Bourbon Heritage Month”.
- ↑ Senate Resolution 294 (S. Res. 294)
- ↑ "Designating Bourbon Whiskey". History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
- ↑ "Statute" (PDF). 24 September 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2018.