Tester Amendment to Protect farmers included in s. 510
Tear Jerking Speech from Sen Tom Harkin
Date: 11/18/2010 4:48:02 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 36072 times
JUST CAME HOME FROM PCOM MEETING
Senator Tom Harkin is speaking.
He wants to go home for the holidays so bad.
"are woefully outdated before we pass this legislation.
One more tragedy, think about the Holidays.
5000 days every year because of contaminated foods.
to be jeoparized by
many haunted by it.
past time
we have missed our
if we pass it.
DURBIN
Lying...
2:50 pm
Delay a recall...
Total gap in understanding...
He is saying they cannot shut down...
this is a lie...
no power to recall?
Please...
This is a lie...
FDA...Coburn...
not address the real problem...
The National Academy
of
Food Safety...
National Academy of Science...
recommendations...
increasing
Durbin...
Our bill fits all the gaps...
identified ...
to ignore science and fact.
if we we need to do our job better.
al
Not good for business....
says coburn...
Listen to the groups that
they are living in a different world, this is profound
to hear this...
We need to study this...
will it pass
can't make that promise
with passage of this bill the chance
that there will be another
will be deminished..
let's get it through..
let us Senators go home
that we did something good for our
country.
Isn't this the least we could do for our country?
I yield the
2:47 pm
SAFE FOOD IS GOOD BUSINESS
he is looking at Senator Coburn...
Durbin is calling Coburn wrong now.
2:54 pm
{They are not looking at the source of the problem...}
e-coli...Richard lying in this hospital.
that hospital turned out to be
monday october.
Richard ...the complications of e coli...
Not enough people dying...
Richard Chatfield...
as we stand..one senator is blocking a bill
to...
following this debate...
an issue going into yoru
is the food safe enough....
Senator...
Thanks...if we save one life is is worth the life.
Senator Harkin...he brings tears to our eyes...
with his near to tears.
we have come so close...
They all agree on this bill...
Thanks to senator Durbin...
I still that we will keep the politics out of it, Harkin...
I met with Coburn...amendment...
I would do that...
We had to send it out to get senators to sign off on it.
The Republicans would not sign off of...
objected to by Republicans...
the changes he wanted to make...
30 hours post cloture...
He there a suffificent second...
thirty hours...past cloture...
a sufficient second...
calling of the roll...
Mr.
2:59 pm
They are only presenting one side of the story...
2:59 pm
Taking a vote now on the cloture...
Pure Drama...
a pure soap opera..
3:01 pm
pulls on the symphony vote...
sleeve shirt..
we all want an end to contaminated food.
3:12 some saying No and some saying Aye.
Senator Coburn saying No...
I do not understand what they are saying no to or Aye.
Casey Aye...
Bond...No..
To give FDA authority they already have...
they do not realize this, is it true FDA
Lugar No...
Republicans did not sign off on the Amendments
that Senator Coburn was asking for...
Chambliss, No...
This is not about ending comtanient
Brownback...No
Lots saying No...
What are they saying No..
Merkley...
Aye..
Lieberman Aye
Hatch No
Kantless,
Shumer...Aye
burris...Aye
Cardin...Aye
Hagan...Aye...
Udall Aye..
of Colorado...
What are they saying Aye and NO too...
We need an announcing just as when we have
a football game...
This is like watching a sporting event without
knowing the rules...
Warner...eye...
Mr Levin Aye
Karper...Aye...
Feinstein Aye..
Catskill Aye...
Harkin called to not make it a political thing...
It is not a political think...
Thun No...
Mr Sessions...no.
Mr laudenburg aye...
On the face of it, anyone who feel ashamed if they just
went by what was being said...
if you just voted on what was being said, it would be a no brianer.
Durbin said 87 % of people wanted it to pass.
I have not seen these people or heard from them.
Where do they speak up????
3:39 pm
Mr Frankin Aye.
Dems seem to be voting Aye...
The Repubs seem to be saying No.
The grounds for sayign aye and no do not seem to have anything
to do with the issue.
I would like the nation to be seeing
MR Smith Goes to Wsington...
WE NEED A DIALOGUE ON THIS...
We aren't even on the same page...
of the issues...