I think it is important that we have a clear understanding of the proposed amendment and I will. therefore. take a few minutes now to explain what the amendment that I have offered does. The maior thrust of the proposed amendment is to offer wholesale exemptions to currently covered employers and their employees. It does this by repealing changes that were made in the law in the 1974 amendments which extended protections to migrant and seasonal agricultural workers employed in canneries. cotton gins. packing sheds. food processing operations. and nurseries. There have been a number of proposals recently to exempt a large number of employers from the coverage of the act. These proposals seem to be based on a misconception of the purposes underlying the amendments that were passed here in 1974. Those amendments were designed to bring about a substantial increase in coverage of the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act. It was intended that most agricultural employers of migrant and seasonal workers were to be subject to the requirements of the Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act. In broadening the coverage of the act. Congress maintained in section 3 certain relatively narrow exemptions for small employers considered unlikely to affect significant numbers of covered workers. and for whom compliance with the act might be unduly burdensome.