[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16] [House] [Pages 22425-22426] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]CAPTIVE ELEPHANT ACCIDENT PREVENTION ACT (Mr. FARR of California asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, I rise today, first of all, to thank game show host Bob Barker for coming to Washington, D.C. in support of the bill I am introducing today and sorry that he had to have emergency surgery. We all wish him well as he recovers from this. Today I am introducing the Captive Elephant Accident Prevention Act, [[Page 22426]] H.R. 2929, to make circuses more humane for animals and safer for spectators. I am not interested in seeing the circus industry unduly hindered or encumbered. My bill is a practical, reasonable bill that addresses a fundamental wrong in the entertainment industry. The problem is that we have to break the will of wild beasts, big beasts that are 10 feet tall, weigh several tons, in order for them to perform stunts at circuses. They use high-powered electric prods. They tie them up. And we can see that when an animal goes wild, as this one did in Honolulu, that the only way to stop them from injuring people is to shoot them. That is what happened in this case where an animal had 57 rounds shot into him before he was brought down. Animals like elephants are not horses or dogs. They cannot be trained for those purposes. I urge my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring H.R. 2929. ____________________