Food Safety Bill was unanimously passed by the Senate w/o any GOP objection late Sunday night. We all need to call the House Members before they vote on it on Tuesday December 21. http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
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THEY WILL VOTE ON TUESDAY
DECEMBER 21, THE WINTER SOLSTICE
and a Day Of LUNAR ECLIPSE
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Targeting: The President of the United States, The U.S. Senate, and The U.S. House of Representatives
Started by: Leslie Goldman
To leave the Fate of the Future of Real Food Safety to the decision making capacity of 100 men and women U.S. Senators, 435 House members and Food Safety Policy Makers who may never have shopped their local Farmers' Market or delighted in the taste of butter from contented cows would be an error in judgement. To imagine that Washington legislators, who may never have delighted in leafy greens fresh picked that morning, contamination free, are suited to make the call on what we who sing "America The Beautiful" will eat tomorrow is faulty logic. Food is ours. All of ours. It is time to Chew on Food Safety. A National Conversation has begun. Let all of us, GE Lovers, Organic food Lovers, Conventional Food Growers, sit down and enter into an honest and honoring Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Food.
1:04 am
December 20, 2010
FROM WATCH FOR THE HAIL MARY PASS
ISSUED SUNDAY MORNING
DECEMBER 19
HERE ON THE PLANT YOUR DREAM BLOG
Saturday update December 18, 2010:
Asked about the status of
#S-510 FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.
during a morning press conference covered by C-Span,
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said:
"The good news is it is not dead,
the conversation is still alive on the floor of the Senate today."
Durbin said he is hopeful the measure can be included in
"the wrap up" of the lame duck session.
Those who want to see
the passage of #S-510, no matter what,
are seeking a Hail Mary Pass.
For those not familiar with football, we are talking about
a long pass down field with little time on the clock
that ends up winning the game. The clock is ticking.
For those on defense calling for less FDA and government
interference where unwarranted
and the birthright to have food be our medicine,
this is more about food freedom
than a limited definition
of Food Safety. Thousands upon thousands,
unreported in the mainstream press,
have formed a coalition against #S-510
crossing all party, religious, and philosophical lines.
We've monitored the current assault of Food Safety Bills.
They do more harm that good if the pass succeeds.
#S-510 is a new beginning.
All who want Food Freedom stand together.
Truly we want one united prayer of thanks.
"America the Beautiful" is truly rising up again.
CALENDAR
FROM DEMOCRATS SHOWING
PASSAGE
DECEMBER 19
late Sunday night.
This Bill has never been fully
head with full on debate
allowing for all points of view to be heard.
Passed H.R.2751, as amended by the text of S.510 (Food Safety) minus the offending blue slip provisions (with title amendment).
OUTSTANDING SUMMARY
MONDAY MORNING
December 20, 2010
9:50 am
by
SENATE REPUBLICANS JOIN DEMOCRATS TO PASS FOOD “SAFETY” BILL
By Sarah Foster
December 20, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
The Democrats are at it again, this time under the cover of Sunday Night.
The infamous food “safety” bill that health freedom activists and their allies assumed was out for the session, has come blazing back to life from its near-death state late Sunday, thanks to a sell-out by Senate Republicans.
That’s right. S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act was stuck into a shell bill and passed unanimously just before the Senate adjourned for the day.
As reported by the Washington Post: “After a weekend of negotiations, tense strategy sessions and several premature predictions about the bill's demise, [newly re-elected and confident] Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid, D-Nev., reached a deal with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., that the GOP would not filibuster. [added]
BY CINDY SUE CAUSEY on 12/19/2010 at 21:43
This article did not cover the whole story: #S510 No More: The "food safety" language replaces the Cash for Clunkers language in the amended version of HR 2751 which was sent over to the House. Kudos to @jamiedupree for reporting that first.
This goes to the House and is expected to be voted on Tues. Recommend calling and faxing and giving your Reps H—L. Might also recommend that the revenue floor in the Tester amendment language be amended from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000.
This article did not cover the whole story: #S510 No More: The "food safety" language replaces the Cash for Clunkers language in the amended version of HR 2751 which was sent over to the House. Kudos to @jamiedupree for reporting that first.
This goes to the House and is expected to be voted on Tues. Recommend calling and faxing and giving your Reps H—L. Might also recommend that the revenue floor in the Tester amendment language be amended from $500,000 to at least $1,000,000.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2010
Late Night Senate Sinister Shenanigans
The Hill:
posted here
12:29 pm
December 20, 2010
In Sunday-evening surprise, Senate unanimously passes food safety bill
By Alexander Bolton - 12/19/10 07:55 PM ET
The Senate unexpectedly approved food safety legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.
The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not originate in the House — Senate staff had failed to substitute the food safety language into a House-originated bill.
A coalition of groups supporting the bill sent a letter Sunday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) calling for action on food safety.
“Our organizations are writing to support attaching S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, to the Senate's proposed short-term continuing resolution,” the groups wrote. “Strong food-safety legislation will reduce the risk of contamination and provide FDA with the resources and authorities the agency needs to help make prevention the focus of our food safety strategies.”
The American Public Health Association, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union and other groups signed the letter.
Democrats first attempted to attach the food safety bill to the two-and-a-half-month spending measure but Republicans balked because they wanted to keep that measure clean, according to Senate aides.
Republicans, however, later agreed to pass it by unanimous consent.
Reid announced he would send the legislation — this time properly attached to a House-originated measure — back to the lower chamber for final approval.
“Our food safety system has not been updated in almost a century. Families in Nevada and across America should never have to worry about whether the food they put on their table is safe," Reid said in a statement. "This is a common-sense issue with broad bipartisan support.
"Tonight we unanimously passed a measure to improve on our current food safety system by giving the FDA the resources it needs to keep up with advances in food production and marketing, without unduly burdening farmers and food producers,” he said.
The legislation is a high priority for Reid and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
Reid’s staff earlier in the day had told a coalition of groups supporting the legislation that it had a chance of passing but the prospects appeared to dim as Sunday wore on. The swift approval by unanimous consent caught some aides and lobbyists working on it by surprise.
Sen. Tom Coburn, the outspoken conservative Republican from Oklahoma, had been blocking the legislation. He lifted his objection at the final moment.
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REVIEWING HOW TO KEEP THE BEAT
WITH NATURE THROUGH GROWING A BEET
IN A POT
Plant Your Dream was first inspired
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May we each get the idea,
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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
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Our legislators--all of them--are well intended
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America The Beautiful.
The sight is amazing!
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Nations around the world honor
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Birds Twitter!
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It is one beet. Many Pulses
evermore.
Soldiers come home.
We honor our returning veterans
and send them back to school
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A new middle class in America
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Young folks adopt elders.
A happy day returns as
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The later verses
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For amber waves of grain...
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
Till selfish gain no longer stain
The banner of the free!
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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
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...alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
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Till nobler men keep once again
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