[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 78 (Thursday, June 7, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H2960]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN FARMERS EACH YEAR ARE LOSING THEIR FARMS

  (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, thousands of American farmers each year 
are losing their farms. Bankruptcy, unfair imports, estate taxes, 
government regulations, IRS, EPA, you name it. American farmers are 
literally biting the dust. Yet Uncle Sam is allowing imported ground 
beef to cross our borders without even being inspected. It is 
unbelievable. If that is not enough to milk your holstein, the American 
people know more about the origin of their BVDs than their food supply. 
With mad-cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease rampant over in Europe, 
there is not even a country-of-origin label on American food. Beam me 
up.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the fact that mad-cow disease is not a name 
for a rock group.

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