On the recordJuly 7, 2015
It was, let's see, more like 6 hours ago that it was in the hopper. Ms. McCOLLUM. Reclaiming my time, Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman. The headlines are, groundbreaking rule in Washington State on this dairy case. And it is, ``Dairy Pollution Threatens Washington Valley's Water.'' This was a big enough story, in fact, that it was even reprinted by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. It was the first time that the Federal Resources Conservation Recovery Act was used to consider ways in which land and water had to be protected. So, Mr. Chairman, just because I didn't have an opportunity to really delve into this and find out more about it--and what the amendment does is it just totally stops funds to be issued under this regulation to animal feeding operations--I am going to oppose it because it also includes large concentrated animal feeding operations. And I do come from a farming State, so I do know the difference between a small farm, a small hog farmer, and a lagoon, and large dairy farms and small dairy farms. So with that, I oppose this amendment. I reserve the balance of my time.
