President. and that is that th.s amendment will not gut the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act. This amendment will not exempt giant corporate farms from coverage under the act. This amendment would not eliminate the substantive protections against abuse that are available to migrant workers. What the amendment will do is to insure that the present law is administered and enforced properly to protect farm workers from serious abuses by labor crew leaders and farm labor contractors. Congress never intended that the law consider farm labor contractors to include farmers and their employees who are tied to the land or property and are permanently located. As a further indication of congressional intent. the section on congressional findings and FLCRA indicates that the act is to protect both the producers of agricultural products and migrant agricultural laborers. It is clear that we would not consider agricultural producers to be "farm labor contractors" when we are trying to protect them against exploitation from farm labor contractors. So.