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“LET THE CHIPS FALL” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4306 on May 1, 1996.
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LET THE CHIPS FALL
(Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, the Department of Agriculture spends $200 million a year on the Environmental Quality Incentives Program known as EQUIP. Now the focus of the purpose of EQUIP is manure. That is right, manure. And after years of studies and reports and after hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars, the Department of Agriculture has come to several conclusions.
No. 1, big farm animals produce more manure than small farm animals. And, No. 2, manure stinks. Beam me up. Mr. Speaker--$200 million to determine that manure stinks.
I think these environmentalists over at the Department of Agriculture have been smelling too many methane fumes. Why not just let the chips fall where they may, stockpile a little of it, and tell these monarchs and dictators overseas if they keep jacking around with oil prices, we are going to turn Elsie loose.
I yield back the balance of this methane.
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