Senate primed for cloture vote to regulate food producers
From Tea Party Nation
“Harry Reid In Your Dinner—A critical cloture vote is scheduled for this Wednesday S 510 ... please act!
Posted by Eve N. Stephens on November 15, 2010 at 8: 30 pm
A critical cloture vote is scheduled for this Wednesday, November 17, on S. 510, the so-called ‘Food Safety Modernization Act,’ which will open the floodgates for tyrannical federal bureaucrats to crush local producers of healthy food.
The statists in the Senate are banking on us not paying attention after the elections in order to ram another disgusting bill down our throats.
Don’t fall for their rhetoric about a few provisions that supposedly address concerns of small-scale farmers; the FDA still has all the power it needs to shut down family farms on a whim.
In other words, it will be up to bureaucrats to decide whether or not local food production is decimated by federal regulations or shut down if the FDA has ‘reason to believe’ the food on the premises is contaminated.
While family farms face greater scrutiny and increased costs, the government’s Big Agriculture allies will have no problem adjusting to the new rules.
In these tough economic times, S. 510 will drive up the costs of food production by adding more layers of government interference. Like Cap and Tax, which will guarantee higher energy bills, S. 510 will ensure you pay more to meet an essential need. (Almost a given when increased government regulations are applied. I’m not familiar with this bill or with what is and is not needed. However, later in this post, Dick Durbin is listed as one of the cosponsors of the bill—Dick Durbin of Illinois. That, in and of itself, is sufficient reason to oppose the bill unless overwhelming, accurate evidence is available to be in support of the bill. I don’t trust Dick Durbin under any circumstances!—my addition)
We know Congress won’t be the one tightening its belt: Section 401 of S. 510 authorizes nearly $1 billion to grow the government’s reach and calls for over 17,000 new bureaucrats to be hired through fiscal year 2014 (just for starters). (That’s only approximately $59,000 per new bureaucrat—probably an underestimate of the real costs for this new program—my addition.)
The bill also grants blanket authority for federal agencies to impose international guidelines and standards on domestic food producers—giving agencies authority to harmonize all American food production and processes in line with the globalist Codex.
Well-intentioned amendments to this rotten bill are not enough to make it anything other than unconstitutional.
It should be noted that Senators:
1) Tom Harkin (Democrat-Iowa) [up for reelection in 2014]
2) Mike Enzi (Republican-Wyoming) [up for reelection in 2014]
3) Dick Durbin (Democrat-Illinois) [up for reelection in 2014]
4) Judd Gregg (Republican-New Hampshire) [a lame duck Senator who is retiring at the end of this session]
5) Chris Dodd (Democrat-Connecticut) [a lame duck Senator who is retiring at the end of this session] and
6) Richard Burr (Republican-North Carolina) [reelected this year]
coordinated to reach a ‘bipartisan’ agreement earlier in the year to forge ahead with the otherwise stalled bill.
If you are a constituent of any of these senators, they especially need to hear from you.
Don’t let the statists empower their Big Agriculture allies and destroy reputable food producers like the independent family farm, where the free market works every day to provide the public with healthy choices.
Please contact your senators opposing S 510 NOW, before it’s to late!”
“Democratic Senators up for reelection in 2012”—my post on November 10th gives contact information for these specific Senators.
From Tea Party Nation
“Harry Reid In Your Dinner—A critical cloture vote is scheduled for this Wednesday S 510 ... please act!
Posted by Eve N. Stephens on November 15, 2010 at 8: 30 pm
A critical cloture vote is scheduled for this Wednesday, November 17, on S. 510, the so-called ‘Food Safety Modernization Act,’ which will open the floodgates for tyrannical federal bureaucrats to crush local producers of healthy food.
The statists in the Senate are banking on us not paying attention after the elections in order to ram another disgusting bill down our throats.
Don’t fall for their rhetoric about a few provisions that supposedly address concerns of small-scale farmers; the FDA still has all the power it needs to shut down family farms on a whim.
In other words, it will be up to bureaucrats to decide whether or not local food production is decimated by federal regulations or shut down if the FDA has ‘reason to believe’ the food on the premises is contaminated.
While family farms face greater scrutiny and increased costs, the government’s Big Agriculture allies will have no problem adjusting to the new rules.
In these tough economic times, S. 510 will drive up the costs of food production by adding more layers of government interference. Like Cap and Tax, which will guarantee higher energy bills, S. 510 will ensure you pay more to meet an essential need. (Almost a given when increased government regulations are applied. I’m not familiar with this bill or with what is and is not needed. However, later in this post, Dick Durbin is listed as one of the cosponsors of the bill—Dick Durbin of Illinois. That, in and of itself, is sufficient reason to oppose the bill unless overwhelming, accurate evidence is available to be in support of the bill. I don’t trust Dick Durbin under any circumstances!—my addition)
We know Congress won’t be the one tightening its belt: Section 401 of S. 510 authorizes nearly $1 billion to grow the government’s reach and calls for over 17,000 new bureaucrats to be hired through fiscal year 2014 (just for starters). (That’s only approximately $59,000 per new bureaucrat—probably an underestimate of the real costs for this new program—my addition.)
The bill also grants blanket authority for federal agencies to impose international guidelines and standards on domestic food producers—giving agencies authority to harmonize all American food production and processes in line with the globalist Codex.
Well-intentioned amendments to this rotten bill are not enough to make it anything other than unconstitutional.
It should be noted that Senators:
1) Tom Harkin (Democrat-Iowa) [up for reelection in 2014]
2) Mike Enzi (Republican-Wyoming) [up for reelection in 2014]
3) Dick Durbin (Democrat-Illinois) [up for reelection in 2014]
4) Judd Gregg (Republican-New Hampshire) [a lame duck Senator who is retiring at the end of this session]
5) Chris Dodd (Democrat-Connecticut) [a lame duck Senator who is retiring at the end of this session] and
6) Richard Burr (Republican-North Carolina) [reelected this year]
coordinated to reach a ‘bipartisan’ agreement earlier in the year to forge ahead with the otherwise stalled bill.
If you are a constituent of any of these senators, they especially need to hear from you.
Don’t let the statists empower their Big Agriculture allies and destroy reputable food producers like the independent family farm, where the free market works every day to provide the public with healthy choices.
Please contact your senators opposing S 510 NOW, before it’s to late!”
“Democratic Senators up for reelection in 2012”—my post on November 10th gives contact information for these specific Senators.
posted by Christian Gunslinger at 5:01 AM
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