On the recordOctober 30, 1997
By passing the Vento amendment, we can still guarantee equitable treatment for small ranchers and taxpayers who it is estimated pay as much as $400 million a year to continue the total Federal grazing program. The numbers that we see, of course, come in at about $60 million or $70 million to manage the program, and the receipts are somewhere less than $25 million, even under this bill. So it is a three-to-one ratio, according to the BLM and the Forest Service. A vote for the Vento amendment will take the corporate cowboys off the grazing haywagon, off the taxpayers' back, and put some real reform into this forage bill. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.
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