I would like this to be among my final words on #S-510.
"He will object to including the so-called food safety bill
in the [continuing resolution],"
Coburn spokesman John Hart said in an e-mail to POLITICO Friday.
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It is late here in Washington D.C. (also known as an alternative universe). It snowed all day making getting to meetings with Senate and House Members (and a few reporters) somewhat problematic (except for riding the cool trains between House and Senate offices and the Capitol). In the last two days I have spent my time on the Hill meeting with Senators, Congress Members and staff (who do all the work) to determine the status of the Food Safety Bill where one version passed the House and another passed the Senate - OVERWHELMINGLY - with Republican and Democratic support. Yet, however, it is now on the verge of death as I watch the evening news. Please, stay with me.
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December 17, 2010
Member Since: Dec. 16, 2010
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Dec. 17, 2010 - 5:30 PM EST
We all want real Food Safety.
This Bill never truly offered that.
Food Safety begins from the ground up.
We will get it when we have a million more micro farmers
and gardeners in America
and the Senators and Congressmen holding to the words of
the song America The Beautiful!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
...beyond the years
...alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
SEE THE BLOG HERE ON POLITICO
My heart goes out to all the children and adults that have been harmed by contaminated food. We need to all work together now to Chew on Food Safety: A National Conversation is needed. All sides and every person who eats needs to be a part of a true dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.
Please join a year long Campaign to Educate Washington on Real Food Safety.
I have to believe in my heart that our elected representatives want to do the right thing for the American people. Working together we can harmonize our laws with the laws of nature and turn away from attempts to harmonize with international Food Rules. It is time we fully speak openly about what was between the lines in these food safety bills, the Codex Alimentarius Commission. It is time to know we will save the future of our nation through accepting we are all being called back to shift our economic orientation, to balance Nature's Original Technology with the blessings that come to us from a free and open internet that allows all of us to be heard.
I want to thank all from the Tea Party, all from the Sustainability movement, the local food advocates, all the diverse factions of American life who came together to save the future of our food. We truly have reason to thank God this holiday season that His will was done with the putting down of this bill. Tremendous good will come from the year long hard effort that the legislators put in on this. Together let's start to bring the issues to the table. It's time to talk and hear one another. Democracy is no longer a spectator sport.
Fate of food-safety bill bleak
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Dec. 17, 2010 - 4:16 PM EST updated
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Republicans might block provisions for food safety amid other cuts in the continuing resolution.
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A sweeping food safety measure heralded as a rare Senate victory just a few weeks ago looks like it might fall to the cutting room floor, as senators hammer out the details of a resolution to prevent a government shutdown.
Aides say Majority Leader Harry Reid must strip down the government funding measure to its bare bones so that the Senate can pass it quickly by unanimous consent and send back to the House, which had attached the food-safety measure to its version of the continuing resolution earlier this month. A vote on a package with other items would meet resistance from Senate Republicans, eating into floor time — the most valuable commodity in Congress at the moment as Christmas nears.
Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, who blocked the food-safety bill multiple times in November, would be the most likely troublemaker for Reid if the measure, known as a continuing resolution, includes the food-safety provisions.
"He will object to including the so-called food safety bill in the [continuing resolution]," Coburn spokesman John Hart said in an e-mail to POLITICO Friday.
The food safety measure passed in the Senate 73-25 in November, but a procedural snafu voided the vote. In order to send the bill to the president’s desk, House leaders decided to attach it to the emergency year-end spending legislation.
Other items in the House package likely to get the ax in the upper chamber include funding for stimulus projects and a rule change on offshore drilling that would triple the amount of time Minerals Management Service could sit on permit applications for rigs on the outer-continental shelf, according to a Republican aide.
In the press to keep the government afloat, staffers close to both the original food safety bill and Democratic leadership say they are fighting to keep the language but acknowledge that after a successful campaign by many senators to block a $1.1 trillion omnibus bill loaded with earmarks, moving another budget bill with extras attached is a tall order.
One Republican leadership aide, categorizing the state of the negotiations between party leaders, added that no one from either party wants to be responsible for a government standstill and that a "clean" bill — no matter how popular extras like food safety once were — most likely will be the result of the work between Reid and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
"The bottom line is that nobody wants to risk a government shutdown, we're 36 hours away, and both sides are working as hard as they can to keep add-ons out of this [resolution] that could jeopardize its ability to pass quickly," the aide said. "Both sides are working to make this a clean resolution."
The House was forced to tack on the food-safety bill to the CR after the Senate bill essentially was voided because it included tax provisions that had to originate from the lower chamber. If the food safety overhaul, which bolsters the Food and Drug Administration's powers to regulate and recall tainted products, fails to clear this Congress, it is unlikely to be revived successfully next year.
"We just want to see whatever vehicle — whatever the [resolution] looks like — we want to see this food-safety bill in it," said Sandra Eskin, director of food-safety campaign at the Pew Charitable Trusts. "This passed overwhelmingly in both houses and didn't move because of a small mistake. I'm sure Mr. Reid knows that."
A spokesman for Reid's office declined to specify which of the extra provisions were still under consideration and aides added that they hope a deal could be struck as early as Friday afternoon. The Senate is in session over the weekend for votes on the DREAM Act and a repeal of "don't ask, don't tell," giving negotiators more time on the Hill to hash out an agreement.
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J way
Member Since: Feb. 6, 2009
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Dec. 17, 2010 - 4:30 PM EST
The best idea is to just let the so called food safety bill die altogether. And to allow things as they have been for people to have unregulated gardens and food markets to go unrestrained from those who would control our food supplies and once again all farmers should start to grow all they can and skip the government money for not growing food. Sincerely ;
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Mountain View
Member Since: Jun. 11, 2010
Party: Independent
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Dec. 17, 2010 - 4:45 PM EST
More good news every day! Govt IS the problem. Go away and stay out of our local gardens.
REVIEWING HOW TO KEEP THE BEAT
WITH NATURE THROUGH GROWING A BEET
IN A POT
Plant Your Dream was first inspired
more than 20 years ago and has been in print thousands
and thousands of times since then. See Space of Love Magazine, April 2009.
May we each get the idea,
give birth to our own versions of the concept, and co-create
1000 years of peace. Keep The Beet Media Star,
the World;s First Talkng Beet Plant, asks you
thanks you for starring in her Rock Your Soul Opera
called, Beet Keepers, Return!
Real Food Safety aims to return the beat of Nature
to Washington. Our campaign begins with
each of us locally regaining our beat through
having a moment of awakening.
We can grow a bit of our own food.
STANZAS FROM
CHEWING ON FOOD SAFTY:
A NATIONAL CONVERSATION IS NEEDED
THE POEM
FROM THE POEM
OCTOBER 18, 2010
first printed on the
PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG.
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Washington can not believe its ears!!!
Sounds deafen Lobbyists who had spent billions and billions
imagining they could buy stables of men and women
they thought that they had voted into office.
This can never be the case in America the Beautiful!
Our legislators--all of them--are well intended
and know truly in their hearts
America The Beautiful.
The sight is amazing!
Our Honored President is inspired
by fresh and local organic foods that Our First Lady
serves him from the White House
organic garden. He declares to the Nation
he is a Beet Keeper in this
the Enchanted Garden Era.
1000 years of peace start now.
Nations around the world honor
our president who was given
a nobel peace prize.
Birds Twitter!
Sustainability again rules the land.
It is one beet. Many Pulses
evermore.
Soldiers come home.
We honor our returning veterans
and send them back to school
to relearn how to grow food in
their own backyards.
A new middle class in America
is reborn. Children receive all the
plant based education they need,
and exude virtue that inspires
mothers, dads,
grandma and grandpa.
Young folks adopt elders.
A happy day returns as
farmers wake up
as Senators and all elected
say, "Happiness is organic."
The later verses
of "America the beautiful" sing out
throughout the Land:
*O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain...
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
...beyond the years
...alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till nobler men keep once again
Thy whiter jubilee!
* POPULAR LINES
FROM The Song
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
IN THE ENCHANTED GARDEN ERA
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