[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 58 (Wednesday, May 1, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H4306]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           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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