The amendment that Senator Chafee and I offered is on an assessment that was passed by the Agriculture Committee in 1990, not the Ways and Means Committee. The Ways and Means Committee never had any jurisdiction over this. I am somewhat perplexed as to why this would then go to the Ways and Means Committee, since it was the Agriculture Committee that passed the assessment in 1990.
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