Posted on 12/20/2010 4:31:23 AM PST by FromLori
A major food safety bill that had almost been given up for dead was suddenly revived in the Senate late on Sunday evening, and may be ready for House approval as early as Tuesday.
In a parliamentary move laid out on the Senate floor by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid just after 7pm, the Senate took the food safety language that was passed as part of a stop-gap budget plan by the House, attached it to another House-passed bill and approved that by unanimous consent.
A Democratic Senate aide told me that Republicans did not object to the plan, even though the bill has garnered fierce opposition in some GOP quarters.
The move was a surprise, as it seemed like the Food Safety bill was going to die in the waning days of this year, despite strong support in both the House and Senate.
The bill almost went down the drain originally because of an elementary mistake by Senate Democrats, who added revenue provisions to a measure that originated in the Senate, despite the Constitutional requirement that all spending and revenue bills start in the House.
The House refused to act directly on that legislation, because of what's known as a "blue slip" problem.
That problem was solved when the House approved its long-term Continuing Resolution last week, which included the language of the Senate-passed food safety bill.
As reported above, the Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substitued it to the language of HR 2751, one of the original "Cash for Clunkers" bills from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent.
That move will fix any Constitutional issues, because the plan originated in the House as part of the CR, and by using a bill that was already approved by the House, the Cash for Clunkers bill.
Before you start screaming about that - the food safety language replaces the Cash for Clunkers language in the amended version of HR 2751.
I was told that the food safety bill should be up for a vote as soon as Tuesday in the House.
Maybe Republicans in the Senate thought no one would notice if they slipped it into other legislation. Maybe they are wrong but based on previous votes on this bill, it had plenty of Republican support anyway. Now we’ll just have to wait and see what the fallout will be.I don’t think it will do anything to help the consumer. Monsanto and Cargyll are probably pretty damn happy about it though.
Great Big Brother in charge of your garden this is a night mare I suppose they figured we would never catch on.
Senate passes food safety bill, again
http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/senate-passes-food-safety-bill-again/
Since Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) has made stops at places like Birchwood Cafe, Seward Market, etc., I thought she would understand some of the concerns of her LIBERAL Minneapolis constituency. These are people who object to the bill since it would endanger their favorite natural foods co-ops, farmers markets, and local farms. I wrote to her regarding this bill, mentioning these concerns, and in no way indicated my conservative views. Turns out I am “against food safety”.
I need to go over to the DUmp to see if there is any response to this bill. Excuse me while I put on my hazmat suit.
Because of bills like this, a fair number of crunchy granola liberals are seeing my point that government control is going too far. Am I waking some people up?
As reported above, the Senate on Sunday night simply took the revised food safety language that was approved by the House in the CR, substitued it to the language of HR 2751, one of the original "Cash for Clunkers" bills from last year, and approved it by unanimous consent.That move will fix any Constitutional issues, because the plan originated in the House as part of the CR, and by using a bill that was already approved by the House, the Cash for Clunkers bill.
Before you start screaming about that - the food safety language replaces the Cash for Clunkers language in the amended version of HR 2751.
The FIRST "R" who is "accomodating" or rolls over to the Demo-Rats in the spirit of "BI-PARTISANSHIP" (no matter how much heat they take--and we know they will--from the Lame Stream Media) will be targeted fro defeat!
The RATS need to be giving a taste of their own medicine and the R's should let the RATS know that come January, it is WAR and "Paybacks are a BITCH."
Thereafter, and for the next 2 years, the RATS (like they did to the R's) should have 0 say in ANY legistlation and NOT be allowed to offer ANY Amendments. Likewise ALL negotiations should be conducted behind closed doors.
Hey RATS, how do you like us now?????
I was born in MN and lived there until a few years ago so I know what you mean. You’ve probably helped wake up a few but knowing how liberalism is really ingrained to that group I can see them doing the same thing over again. I think of the liberals in Minnesota as CA North.
Thank you for the post. These people will not stop under any circumstances.
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