[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 79 (Tuesday, June 21, 1994)]
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                          EPA IS HAVING A COW

  (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, another EPA crisis: The EPA gave another 
half-million dollars to study bovine flatulence, the burps and belches 
of cows. This is udder nonsense.
  Folks, what is next? Will the EPA ban alfalfa? Clover? Orchard grass?
  And now you know and I know what is coming up is: human flatulence. 
What about chili and kidney beans and hard-boiled eggs?
  And to make matters worse now, what if these backpacks on Elsie are 
just a little too tight and she goes about 7.9 of the Richter? Does the 
EPA create a bovine burp task force? Do we get our first ``flat'' tax, 
folks?
  The truth is this issue stinks, and I think it is about time for 
Congress to strap some tush monitors on the EPA.
  I yield back the balance of my flatulence.

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