[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 97 (Thursday, July 12, 2001)]
[House]
[Page H3964]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          SUCKER FISH DESTROYING LIVELIHOOD OF OREGON FARMERS

  (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 endangered sucker fish is living up 
to its reputation, sucking the livelihood from 1,400 farmers in Oregon. 
That is right. This protected bottom feeder now has more rights than 
farmers out there. If that is not enough to fry your mackerel, this 
region has now been without irrigated water since April, turning 
200,000 acres of farmland into near desert.
  Beam me up. Stop this sucker fish crusade. Free these farmers.
  I yield back the fact that this sucker fish sucks.

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