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Congressman Massie needs our help. They begin voting for this around 9 a.m. so phone calls needs to be made early.

Massie debating for the Hemp Amendment: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/4456543

URGENT! Please Call Your Representative in Congress Today!

Ask Them to Support & Vote for the Industrial Hemp Amendment to the Farm Bill

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Dear Reader,
As you may know, the Senate has passed their version of the Farm Bill and Senator Ron Wyden's hemp amendment failed to be voted on because of politics that was out of our control. This week the House is debating their version of the Farm Bill. This means that we have the opportunity to get a hemp amendment in once again! Representatives Jared Polis, Thomas Massie, and Earl Blumenauer have introduced an amendment to the Farm Bill that would allow colleges and universities to grow and cultivate hemp for academic and agricultural research purposes. It would only apply to states where industrial hemp growth and cultivation is already legal under state law.



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[Kotin]

Bump!!!!

[CaseyJones]

video link of Thomas arguing for it added post promoted to home page

[CaseyJones]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3468877.html

DEA Wages Hemp War Behind The Scenes In House

The Drug Enforcement Administration has kicked its lobbying against legalizing industrial hemp into high gear, hoping to block an amendment in the House that would decriminalize the crop for research purposes.

The amendment to the farm bill, proposed by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), is far more modest than a Senate effort by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to fully legalize the crop for industrial purposes. That measure never found its way into the Senate version of the bill. The House may vote on Polis' amendment as soon as Tuesday evening.

The Huffington Post has obtained a copy of talking points the DEA is circulating among members of Congress to press them to oppose the amendment -- raising the seemingly incongruous specter of the government using its resources to lobby itself.

The talking points, paradoxically, represent a step forward in the debate. In the Senate, hemp advocates were left only to counter vague "law enforcement concerns" that senators told HuffPost were a factor in their willingness to support reform. By laying out those specific reforms, hemp backers will attempt to rebut them point by point.

[CaseyJones]

bump

[CaseyJones]

has there been a vote on this yet?

[MRoCkEd]

has there been a vote on this yet?

It passed!

http://massieforms.house.gov/news/em...43DHDRZWOMHOHM

[sluggo]

Awesome!

[luctor-et-emergo]

Woohoo !

Now lets hope it stays in the final version of the bill !

[CaseyJones]

awesome indeed

[Brett85]

Where's the roll call for this vote?

[QuickZ06]

Where's the roll call for this vote?

This, gotta see if I can cheer for my reps or be enraged! They better have listened to the people.

[QuickZ06]

This is really dumb though that we cannot grow this stuff. Some of the dumbest crap our country has ever done. BAN A NATURAL GROWING PLANT! Free country....

[Brett85]

Here's the roll call:

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll269.xml

Yoho voted against this. Very disappointing. He was supposed to be one of our better reps.

[QuickZ06]

Pure horse$#@!.

Aderholt
Alexander
Amodei
Bachmann
Barber
Barletta
Barrow (GA)
Barton
Beatty
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blackburn
Bonner
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Clyburn
Coble
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Crawford
Crenshaw
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duckworth
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Foster
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Fudge
Gallego
Garcia
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Goodlatte
Gosar
Granger
Graves (MO)
Green, Gene
Griffin (AR)
Grimm
Hall
Harper
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Hinojosa
Holding
Hudson
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Joyce
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kirkpatrick
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
Levin
Lewis
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Marchant
Marino
Matheson
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meeks
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Pascrell
Pearce
Perry
Pittenger
Pitts
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Rahall
Rangel
Reichert
Renacci
Richmond
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Ruiz
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schock
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Terry
Thompson (MS)
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Turner
Upton
Veasey
Wagner
Walberg
Walorski
Wasserman Schultz
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Yoder
Yoho
Young (FL)

[Brett85]

The only Rep in Kansas who voted for it is Huelskamp. He's definitely not perfect, but he's a lot better than any of the other reps we have here in Kansas. He's been voting the right way on most of these recent bills.

[Brett85]

Looking at all of the roll call votes for the past month or so, I would say that the top five members of the house from a pro liberty perspective are,

1) Amash
2) Massie
3) McClintock
4) Broun
5) Sanford

[Brett85]

Unfortunately, since the farm bill was defeated, it looks like this amendment might be dead for now as well.

[bolil]

It will never cease to confuse me why people need permission from gubmint to grow a plant. I've heard many great things about hemp. Clothing, fuel, food?

[CaseyJones]

we should call all the people who voted for it and get them to cosponsor Massies HR 525

[ClydeCoulter]

Unfortunately, since the farm bill was defeated, it looks like this amendment might be dead for now as well.

Those that supported the amendment to that ^ bill should support the following bill :

we should call all the people who voted for it and get them to cosponsor Massies HR 525

[FSP-Rebel]

Aimed at Yoho: https://twitter.com/8Atlas2/status/348109063084707840

@bridenstine: https://twitter.com/8Atlas2/status/348108663208161280

[Brett85]

Aimed at Yoho: https://twitter.com/8Atlas2/status/348109063084707840

@bridenstine: https://twitter.com/8Atlas2/status/348108663208161280

I know that Yoho has voted the right way on a lot of things in the past, but this is pretty close to being a deal breaker. If he votes against an amendment like this then he obviously has no understanding at all of the 10th amendment.