On the recordApril 29, 2026
Animal disease traceability is an extremely important aspect of protecting our domestic livestock herds and our foreign trade markets. We have already seen the importance of animal disease traceability and EID tags with dairy cattle due to the ongoing outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza. USDA helps producers comply with this rule by providing the tags at no cost to producers, and the rule this amendment seeks to repeal has been in effect for more than 18 months already with no negative consequences. Producers recognize that animal disease traceability is an essential component of protecting livestock during an animal disease outbreak. We cannot allow ourselves to be in a position where efforts to improve animal disease traceability are hampered. For this reason I must respectfully oppose the gentlewoman from Wyoming's amendment offered by my good friend from Wisconsin, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.
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