On the recordOctober 4, 2001
I have mixed emotions that there is probably some reasons why we ought to be trying to get this accomplished; but I, along with the chairman, and as ranking member of the Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture, have sat through more meetings and testimony than I want to think about trying to work through this issue. It is a complicated issue. As the gentleman from Idaho just said, there is no prohibition against voluntary labeling, and there is some indication that that works pretty well in certain areas. We are trying to do a lot of things on the floor of the House here that sound good and probably are good ideas, but it is not like we have not tried to work these things through in committee. I know that the chairman agrees with me that we will continue to work on this and look at the issue, but this is not the place to be legislating complicated issues like this on the floor of the House.
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