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Amendment No. 4 Offered By Mr. Paul — Part 1 23 May 2006 2006 Ron Paul 37:1 Mr. PAUL. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment. The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Amendment No. 4 offered by Mr. PAUL: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following new sections: SEC. ll. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to implement or administer the National Animal Identification System. The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the order of the House of today, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. PAUL) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Texas. 2006 Ron Paul 37:2 Mr. PAUL. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. (Mr. PAUL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) 2006 Ron Paul 37:3 Mr. PAUL. Mr. Chairman, my amendment is very simple. It says none of the funds made available in this act may be used to implement or administer a National Animal Identification System. I think at this time one thing that this country doesn’t need is another huge bureaucracy tracing and following every animal in the country. 2006 Ron Paul 37:4 That is exactly what this new program will do. It means that each animal will be tagged with a radio frequency ID, all cattle, swine, sheep, goats, horses poultry, bison, deer, elk, lamas and alpacas. 2006 Ron Paul 37:5 For one, what you own on your farm should be your property, and that information should be private unless there is some type of a subpoena. There is a fourth amendment issue here. 2006 Ron Paul 37:6 Also, there is the issue of just why this is being done. A lot of people have claimed, and I agree with this, that this is a benefit to the large agribusiness farmers, and it is a great detriment to the small farmers who will be burdened with this great effort to accumulate data which will be of benefit to some private big companies. 2006 Ron Paul 37:7 Actually, the database will be controlled by private companies. It will be said that this is a voluntary program, but it has also been told me by the Agriculture Department that if it isn’t 100 percent agreed to by the year 2008, it will become mandatory. So it is a little bit of 1984 newspeak about exactly how voluntary it is. 2006 Ron Paul 37:8 But we certainly don’t need this type of program. We already have plenty of programs that trace and monitor movement. There are health requirements and brands and all the other efforts. This, to me, is a bureaucratic boondoggle that we don’t need. 2006 Ron Paul 37:9 Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. HEFLEY).

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