Senate passes "Food Safety" bill 73-25

[MRoCkEd]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113002276.html

Why they should have opposed it:
http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/key-vote-no%E2%80%9D-s-510-food-safety-modernization-act

If passed, federal bureaucrats who know little about agriculture will tell farmers how to “appropriately” grow their crops. Food producers will likely spend hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with these frivolous new rules that dictate what kind of soil or how much water a farmer should use. This cost will be passed on to consumers in the form of higher food prices. To carry out these new rules, the federal government is required to hire, according to Section 401, thousands upon thousands of new bureaucrats funded by “such sums as may be necessary”.

Big agriculture companies that are lobbying for this bill will easily be able to adjust to the new rules. It will be more difficult for small farmers to comply with the new costly regulations. Ultimately, this dangerous bill could weed out competition by destroying independent family farmers that provide healthy choices.

[jrskblx125]

So lame.

[fisharmor]

Another nail in the coffin.

[Sola_Fide]

Leftists are the destroyers of the poor and middle class....and they actually think they are helping them.

[FrankRep]

I just have to laugh. LOL. We're so fucked.

The Government is GOD now. Bow down and worship it.

[romacox]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113002276.html

Reading the whole article, it has not yet passed...more processes to go through. also look at what the amendments they removed.

[Melissa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113002276.html

Reading the whole article, it has not yet passed...more processes to go through. also look at what the amendments they removed.

Those comments are so scary why do they think the government is out to help them but business that want profits are out to loot them. Scary thinking these days

[FrankRep]

Those comments are so scary why do they think the government is out to help them but business that want profits are out to loot them. Scary thinking these days

Melissa suffers from Governophobia.

:p

[Sola_Fide]

I just have to laugh. LOL. We're so fucked.

The Government is GOD now. Bow down and worship it.

The goal of man since the garden is to be God. Government is just the easiest way to do it.

[Pericles]

At some point, bullets will fly, and this issue is just as good as any.

[FrankRep]

At some point, bullets will fly, and this issue is just as good as any.
And tanks will roll.

Good luck.

[Melissa]

Melissa suffers from Governophobia.

:p

Yes I do more and more they have the food, banks, autos, health care, ect...getting really scary

[Hallamaat]

Yeah. Color me shocked. :(

[pcosmar]

Senate passes "Food Safety"

Well, I feel safer already.

NOT
:mad:

[pcosmar]

And tanks will roll.

Good luck.

Fine.
Tanks will burn.

:mad:

[Slutter McGee]

At some point, bullets will fly, and this issue is just as good as any.

Oh Brother. Lets start a shooting war over a farm bill. Yay. Who is with me?

Slutter McGee

[brenden.b]

This bill has only passed the Senate, correct? It has yet to go through the House? Hopefully Nancy has enough other nonsense she wants to try to push through that this will get muddled up in committee? One can hope?

[Matt Collins]

WHO voted for it???

[brenden.b]

WHO voted for it???

I'd like to know that as well.

[TexanRudeBoy]

Oh Brother. Lets start a shooting war over a farm bill. Yay. Who is with me?

Slutter McGee

People who's livelihoods are effected might see things a bit differently..........

[paulitics]

This will give us an idea of how the republicans vote AFTER the election. This lame duck session is extremely dangerous to our liberties.

[HOLLYWOOD]

What's kinda obvious is the same old political news wired sent to their 4th branch of government (Main Stream Media)

They (MSM) are ALL parroting the same text to American viewers... "we are now safer from E Coli, Salmonella, poisons... yotta yotta"

[GunnyFreedom]

well, Burr and Hagan for one. :mad: Phone is now ringing off the hook w constituents angry at Burr.

[Hallamaat]

WTF, it looks like Food Inc supports this.

http://www.facebook.com/Foodinc/posts/169614006405849

Good to see that a lot of the people commenting on their link don't approve of this.

[Matt Collins]

SOURCE:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00257

On Passage of the Bill (S. 510 as Amended )
November 30, 2010, 10:09 AM
S. 510 (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:SN510:) (FDA Food Safety Modernization Act )

A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to the safety of the food supply.


Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Not Voting
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (D-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea


Grouped By Vote Position

YEAs ---
73 Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---25
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Wicker (R-MS)

Not Voting - 2
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)

[Matt Collins]

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[puppetmaster]

wow.....people are going to get pissed.... I am so ready

[Sola_Fide]

Dick Lugar is such a putz. How does this guy keep getting elected???

[Toureg89]

Leftists are the destroyers of the poor and middle class....and they actually think they are helping them.
there are republicans here in Fl who are supporting this so that bigger farming companies can hedge their bets against smaller farming businesses being able to survive under the pressures of the regulations. its not only the left.

[Romulus]

WTF, it looks like Food Inc supports this.

http://www.facebook.com/Foodinc/posts/169614006405849

Good to see that a lot of the people commenting on their link don't approve of this.

Food Inc.. never watched the movie because its proud to boast, "brought to you by the same people who made Al Gores "inconvenient truth"!

Sounds like they are shills for BIG Govt.

[cooker263]

My family has a small dairy farm. The state just forced us to put in a manure pit at the tune of $150,000 and it's been a disaster. It doesn't work and will cost my dad thousands more each year because it collects all surrounding rainwater.

We never ever have had an environmental issue with our farm - but we're too stupid to be trusted according to the state.

Guilty until proven innocent.


My dad's already forced to compete with big farms getting huge subsidies to build methane digesters around us. They get hundreds of thousands of dollars in stimulus to put in digesters which save them money, thus reducing the cost of their operations and lowering the cost of production. My dad would never have access to that money - he wouldn't take it anyways. Nonetheless, it's artificially cutting into his margins.

**There's a reason why all of the small farms in our area are rapidly disappearing and the corporate factories are expanding like crazy. Not that I have a problem necessarily with corporate farms, but the whole industry is rigged in their favor.

Who knows what will result of this bill, but it's just another one of our countless headaches trying to jump through all the hoops.

[puppetmaster]

My family has a small dairy farm. The state just forced us to put in a manure pit at the tune of $150,000 and it's been a disaster. It doesn't work and will cost my dad thousands more each year because it collects all surrounding rainwater.

We never ever have had an environmental issue with our farm - but we're too stupid to be trusted according to the state.

Guilty until proven innocent.


My dad's already forced to compete with big farms getting huge subsidies to build methane digesters around us. They get hundreds of thousands of dollars in stimulus to put in digesters which save them money, thus reducing the cost of their operations and lowering the cost of production. My dad would never have access to that money - he wouldn't take it anyways. Nonetheless, it's artificially cutting into his margins.

**There's a reason why all of the small farms in our area are rapidly disappearing and the corporate factories are expanding like crazy. Not that I have a problem necessarily with corporate farms, but the whole industry is rigged in their favor.

Who knows what will result of this bill, but it's just another one of our countless headaches trying to jump through all the hoops.

it is BS. I have a small farm op also and they better leave me the hell alone

[KCIndy]

Dick Lugar is such a putz. How does this guy keep getting elected???



As an Indiana resident, I ask myself that all the time. :mad: He's so firmly entrenched in his office that the Democrats didn't even run an opponent against him the last time he was on the ballot (in '06 I believe).

Lugar is basically a fat, bloated little deer tick deeply embedded in the ass crack of the body politic.

[dannno]

"Food Safety" Bill Better Than We Thought, At Least Initially

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=270818

[Melissa]

Dick Lugar is such a putz. How does this guy keep getting elected???

Are you in Indiana, we are sure working on getting him out in 2012

[Brett85]

We need to primary every single one of these 15 Republicans who voted for this bill. Republicans need to decide whether they believe in socialism or limited government.

[Pericles]

Both "free state" senators voted for it. What's with that?

[malkusm]

David Vitter voted for this? WTF!

[Noob]

Both "free state" senators voted for it. What's with that?

The following is a list of U.S Senators and the Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that these Senators received from Special Interest Groups to either support or oppose S.510 - The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. I have listed the names of the Senators, the Party and State, and the amount of Special Interest Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that they received:

Judd Gregg - R NH - Bribe For: $26,000 - Against: $0

Jeanne Shaheen - D NH - Bribe For: $17,090 - Against: $7,300

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29693.php

[libertygrl]

This bill has only passed the Senate, correct? It has yet to go through the House? Hopefully Nancy has enough other nonsense she wants to try to push through that this will get muddled up in committee? One can hope?

Yes. Don't give up just yet. We have one last push. Here's the info I received:

THE US SENTATE JUST VOTED TO END FOOD FREEDOM IN THE UNITED STATES.
THE ACTION NOW MOVES TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

TELL THE HOUSE NOT TO ACCEPT THE SENATE BILL S.510. The NY times just reported the "lame-duck leadership" in the House will attempt quick passage!

"Despite unusual bipartisan support on Capitol Hill and a strong push from the Obama administration, though, the bill could still die, because there might not be enough time left in the session for the usual haggling between the Senate and House of Representatives, which passed its own version of the bill last year. Top House Democrats have said that they would consider simply passing the Senate version to speed approval."

GO HERE: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=5205

[KCIndy]

The following is a list of U.S Senators and the Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that these Senators received from Special Interest Groups to either support or oppose S.510 - The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. I have listed the names of the Senators, the Party and State, and the amount of Special Interest Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that they received:

Judd Gregg - R NH - Bribe For: $26,000 - Against: $0

Jeanne Shaheen - D NH - Bribe For: $17,090 - Against: $7,300

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29693.php



Noob, great link, thanks!!

Per my earlier post about Senator Richard "Deer Tick" Lugar:


Richard Lugar - R IN - Bribe For: $153,579 - Against: $21,000

Looks like he knows which side his bread is buttered on.... and Bayh was no better:


Evan Bayh - D IN - Bribe For: $45,200 - Against: 8,250

[libertygrl]

What's kinda obvious is the same old political news wired sent to their 4th branch of government (Main Stream Media)

They (MSM) are ALL parroting the same text to American viewers... "we are now safer from E Coli, Salmonella, poisons... yotta yotta"

There were people on another forum who said Glen Beck brought this bill up the other day and was against it. Give him props for this one. ;)

[jacque]

well, Burr and Hagan for one. :mad: Phone is now ringing off the hook w constituents angry at Burr.

Richard Burr - R NC - Bribe For: $328,086 - Against: $32,292 :mad:

Kay Hagan - D NC - Bribe For: $36,250 - Against: $3,500

Looks like Burr won over Hagan!

[malkusm]

David Vitter voted for this? WTF!

Ah, just another politician who is bought and paid for:

David Vitter - R LA - Bribe For: $188,225 - Against: $8,500

Nothing to see here....

[Kylie]

Richard Durbin - D IL - Bribe For: $151,050 - Against: $19,000


I don't know how they keep getting elected.

Are the people around me really this stupid?

[Slutter McGee]

People who's livelihoods are effected might see things a bit differently..........

Look, I agree this thing is bad. It will destroy small farmers even more. I agree we should fight it. But to think this is going to lead to some violent revolution is stupid.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

[Brooklyn Red Leg]

Sadly I expected this. I think we all now know what Cassandra felt like.

[Ricky201]

At some point, bullets will fly, and this issue is just as good as any.

Bullets will not fly. Just as the same way that bullets never flew over TSA's pornoscanners, the PATRIOT Act, Obama reinstating the PATRIOT Act, TARP, the auto-bailouts, the lies about the end of the Iraq War, the ongoing war in Afghanistan that Obama plans on having until 2014...may I go on?

This is a nation of sheep and we're fucked until the system collapses and God knows what will replace it. The government is the alpha and omega. Who cares about intellectual conversation when all people care about is being safe. Fuck Wikileaks publishes the truth in the empire of lies, and people are calling for Assange's death. If it was revealed - as the 9/11 truthers believe - that the government was directly involved in 9/11 with document after document supporting this claim...you know what would happen? The person/organization responsible for recovering that data would be put to death for treason and the overwhemingly large majority of the country would support it!

Truth smacks people right in the face in this country, but we must obey the almighty government!

Now the only question is...why the fuck haven't I packed for New Hampshire to live with those crazy free-staters?

/endrant

Sorry.

[jdmyprez_deo_vindice]

All the more reason for people to get involved with the state PAC.. We need to get people in there who believe in nullification and who will do what they can on the state and local levels to combat tyranny like this.

[Pericles]

Bullets will not fly. Just as the same way that bullets never flew over TSA's pornoscanners, the PATRIOT Act, Obama reinstating the PATRIOT Act, TARP, the auto-bailouts, the lies about the end of the Iraq War, the ongoing war in Afghanistan that Obama plans on having until 2014...may I go on?

This is a nation of sheep and we're fucked until the system collapses and God knows what will replace it. The government is the alpha and omega. Who cares about intellectual conversation when all people care about is being safe. Fuck Wikileaks publishes the truth in the empire of lies, and people are calling for Assange's death. If it was revealed - as the 9/11 truthers believe - that the government was directly involved in 9/11 with document after document supporting this claim...you know what would happen? The person/organization responsible for recovering that data would be put to death for treason and the overwhemingly large majority of the country would support it!

Truth smacks people right in the face in this country, but we must obey the almighty government!

Now the only question is...why the fuck haven't I packed for New Hampshire to live with those crazy free-staters?

/endrant

Sorry.
It may currently be a cold war, but it can go hot at any time. When it does it will be the result of some alphabet tribe incurring on someone who won't take it anymore. The mob will not march on Washington, the mob will just defend itself at some point, and we are getting closer to that point.

[malkusm]

All the more reason for people to get involved with the state PAC.. We need to get people in there who believe in nullification and who will do what they can on the state and local levels to combat tyranny like this.

+rep

[Brian4Liberty]

If passed, federal bureaucrats who know little about agriculture will tell farmers how to “appropriately” grow their crops. Food producers will likely spend hundreds of millions of dollars to comply with these frivolous new rules that dictate what kind of soil or how much water a farmer should use.


Water bad. Brawndo good! It's got what plants crave! It's got electrolytes!

YouTube - Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04)

[Brian4Liberty]

Not Scott Brown! :rolleyes:

Brown (R-MA), Yea

Lisa Moosekowksi? Shocking!

Murkowski (R-AK), Yea