I am convinced that passage of this amendment will help prevent those kinds of abuses. The Department of Labor does not have unlimited resources. If the Department of Labor spends its time going out registering and fingerprinting and taking all sorts of mountains of paperwork from farmers all across this country and from agricultural cooperatives and from others who were never intended to be covered by this act. it will not be able to do a good job of registering. fingerprinting. regulating and overseeing the farm labor contractors and the crew chiefs who have been most responsible in the past. some of them. for abusing the migrant workers. I am convinced that far from taking us back to the days when there was not adequate protection for the migrant workers. that this amendment will help us do the job better. That is a concern I am sure is shared by those who joined me in offering this amendment. None of us want to go back to those days.