AT A GLANCE
Current Position: House Minority Leader (since January 2007-December 2010); Incoming House Speaker, 112th Congress
Career History: House Majority Leader (2006 to 2007); House Education and Workforce Committee chair (2001 to 2006); House Republican Conference Chairman (1995 to 1999)
Birthday: Nov. 17, 1949
Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio
Alma Mater: Xavier University, BS, 1977
Spouse: Debbie
Religion: Roman Catholic
DC Office: 1011 Longworth H.O.B., Washington, DC 20515, 202-225-6205
District Office: West Chester, 513-779-5400; Troy, 937-339-1524
fax
people to reach
in house
#1
Bohner, minority leader, biggest stick.
#2wholesale
cover political spexctum
Ron Paul
Left
Peter Welch--
disasterous for farmers in Vermont--
275 miles doesn't get you fasr--
sec 103-- go aftewr him
Heath Shuler, blue dog democrats--
conservative democrats-
half fired--
Colin Peterson, strong big ag supporter--
voted against #s-510,
processors support it
in the processing area--
General Mills--
supports it, good pr
already doing,
get rid of small guy competitors-
key driver for payment of claims--
furthest place up the chain--
they can go to whwre it came from--
takes them largely off the hook--
forces liability to prodycer level and away from them--
it improve the traceability up the buck--
helps them get prerequisites-
good for big processors--
chance it might improve food safety--
and gets rid of competitors--
big for them--
and us chamber of commerce--
although counter to them--
they fighjt gov regulation--
we don't know why--
Carolina farms--
tester-hagan--
some protection--
PASA--
supporting it--
they follow the line--
they cut deals with committee--
to support it--
never apprecited inpact of sec 103--
HACCP--
never be listed in opposition--
food facility--
HACCP plan expensive
appropriate for when have a lot of units--
pushed by microbiologists--
Dr William Sperber--knows hazards of HACCP--
mandating one style of food safety--
write a lot of rules--
doing a prohibited
follow the rules as a defense--
become a nation of rule followers--
as opposed to those using scientific methods--
every farmer survives by observation--
You got to be present
REACH BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS
They owe nothing to Nancy Pelosi
Hamil, an easy Michael Bulgar--
food study student--
student of Marian Nestle--
little regard for truth--
a sophisticated troll--
produces cheese--has to sold
HAIL MARY PASS
AS ANTICIPATED THROWN
SUNDAY NIGHT
We are talking about the future of food here,
not a football game.
Please, do not let the House pass this.
Rotten food cannot be cured by a contaminated
Ag System or deceptive practices.
Please return to the values
expressed in the lyrics
"America The Beautiful!"
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]
“Without notice and in a matter of minutes Sunday evening, the Senate approved the bill by unanimous consent, sending it to the House, where passage is expected. President Obama has said he would sign the legislation, which would give the government far-reaching authority to set and enforce safety standards for farmers and food processors.”
"This reaffirmed my faith in democracy," said Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union – one of several non-profit groups that originated and spear-headed the legislation. "We were getting ready for a last-ditch effort . . . and they just went ahead and passed it, like they should have.”
And it wasn’t as if this was done without their being aware. As reported by Food Safety News, the Senate action came as a surprise – particularly because no Republican objected to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's request for his colleagues to pass the food safety bill by unanimous consent.
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“No one objected, not even Republican Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn,” the newsletter observed.
Not surprisingly, Harry Reid, D-Nev., was overjoyed.
"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," Reid said in a statement.
Let’s stop for a minute to recap. As NewsWithViews.com reported, the Senate passed the controversial Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) in late November, but it ran into a constitutional roadblock in the House when someone noticed it contained a revenue-raising provision – a constitutional “no-no” since revenue-raising provisions must originate in the House. This has been dismissed by the media as a mere technicality or “House rule,” but it’s a constitutional matter of no small import. It basically meant the House could not approve the bill as written.
Had the senators – all of whom swear to uphold the Constitution -- ever bothered to read the document and familiarized themselves with its contents, the problem would not have arisen.
But they didn’t, or hadn’t , and suddenly the bill was in limbo on the House side. What to do? Easy. The bill was simply attached to the Continuing Resolution – approved -- and the combo sent over to the Senate, where the entire package was attached to a humongous appropriations bill.
For reasons not fully explained, but perhaps to move on to the next issue – like the DREAM Act or the START Treaty -- Sen. Harry Reid decided to kill the spending bill, and that took out the Continuing Resolution as well as the Food Safety bill.
So that’s where it’s been. You might say it was comatose. Its opponents relaxed their guard assuming it was dead. A Big Mistake.
OK – Mistakes happen. What isn’t easy to explain is the GOP sell-out, and there’s just no other way to describe it. Where was Sen. Coburn? Sen. Jim DeMint? What was going on there. What deals were cut? What promises were made.
I hope that Senate Republicans have some answers tomorrow. Meanwhile, I can’t help but wonder why we worked so hard to keep these guys and gals in D.C. and get new ones elected.
Over the past two years media commentators and reporters have wondered about the Tea Partiers' apparent lack of trust in government and why they denounce Republicans as often as they do Democrats.
Sunday’s performance on the Senate floor is your answer.
Earlier Stories:
1 - Doreen Hannes: S. 510 Hits Constitutional Snag, but Be Wary: Dec. 7, 2010
2 - Jonathan Emord: FDA Hypocrisy: Dec. 6, 2010
3 - Sarah Foster: Whoops -- Food Safety Bill Hits Constitutional Snag: Dec. 2, 2010
4 - Sarah Foster: "Lame-Duck" Harry Reid Flying High With Food Safety Bill: Nov. 30, 2010
5 - Sarah Foster: FDA Food “Safety” Bill Can Be Stopped: Nov. 24, 2010
6 - Sarah Foster: Hey, Tea Partiers -- Where Are You?: Nov. 18, 2010
7 - Sarah Foster: FDA Food “Safety” Bill Poised for Passage: Nov. 16, 2010
8 - Doreen Hannes: Cheese Factory, FDA and Corruption: Nov. 13, 2010
9 - Sarah Foster: House Set to Vote on Fast-Tracked "Food Safety" Bill: July 30, 2009
10 - Sarah Foster: Will Congress Wipe Out Home Gardens, Growers Markets? Mar. 23, 2009
Sarah Foster is a political researcher and freelance writer in Sacramento, Calif. She holds a B.A. in anthropology from U.C., Berkeley and a M. A in folklore-mythology from U.C.L.A. A regular contributor to NewsWithViews.com, her writings have also appeared in WorldNetDaily, Reason Magazine, Orange County Register, and other libertarian/conservative publications.
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
PHONES OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THEY WILL VOTE ON TUESDAY
DECEMBER 21, THE WINTER SOLSTICE
and a Day Of LUNAR ECLIPSE
This petition needs one million signatures.
It begins:
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
CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE
WASHINGTON ON REAL FOOD SAFETY
Read about the goals of the year long campaign here.
Study materials about Real Food Safety.
Watch Videos of Micro-farmer Barry Logan
and much more! http://plantyourdream.net/?page_id=50
THE CAMPAIGN TO EDUCATE WASHINGTON
ON REAL FOOD SAFETY
Our year long Campaign to Educate Washington on
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.
ALL POINTS OF VIEW ARE WELCOME
TO ENTER INTO A NATIONAL CONVERSATION
ON REAL FOOD SAFETY
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!
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.
Look out, care for, tend those dreams being planted here. http://curezone.com/blogs/fm.asp?i=1708802
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
HELPING THE WORLD TO GET BIOSMART
FALL 2010
HELPING THE WORLD
GET BIO SMART
through using BioSmart
Sustainable Packaging and Serviceware.
Made From 100% Natural Sugar Cane.
Bagasse is a by-product of sugar cane
production. Http://www.earthsmartllc.com
"My Enchanted Friend,
Heartfelt thanks for another “Enchanted” plant.
I love + bless it & you.
It graces my desk beautifully. Thank you!
I deeply appreciate you ‘seeding our dream’
to sell millions. I wish the same for you."
I am calling forth your support for 1 million more small gardeners and micro-farmers free from any kind of over regulation to ensure Real Food Safety and for you to personally
declare your alignment with the lyrics
of "America The Beautiful!"
I ask you as my elected representative to read very closely this poem
Chewing on Food Safety:
A National Conversation is Needed.
I ask to sign this declaration:
*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
I oppose including the fake "food safety" (actually "food control") bill, S.510/HR.2751 or any of its language in any Bill before Congress, this year.
"No one's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." SO FINISH YOUR BUSINESS AND GO HOME!
I want the new Congress to find ways and means to protect our local and natural food production and distribution, as well as our natural health remedies, from Federal FDA control.
Divest the FDA of any authority over our food and supplements!
Health and Food Freedom for food safety is an important issue to me, and to many millions of Americans, and I will remember your votes!
NOTES FOR STORY I WANT TO WRITE
ON HARRY HAMIL
#1
Bohner, minority leader, biggest stick.
#2wholesale
cover political spexctum
Ron Paul
Left
Peter Welch--
disasterous for farmers in Vermont--
275 miles doesn't get you fasr--
sec 103-- go aftewr him
Heath Shuler, blue dog democrats--
conservative democrats-
half fired--
Colin Peterson, strong big ag supporter--
voted against #s-510,
processors support it
in the processing area--
General Mills--
supports it, good pr
already doing,
get rid of small guy competitors-
key driver for payment of claims--
furthest place up the chain--
they can go to whwre it came from--
takes them largely off the hook--
forces liability to prodycer level and away from them--
it improve the traceability up the buck--
helps them get prerequisites-
good for big processors--
chance it might improve food safety--
and gets rid of competitors--
big for them--
and us chamber of commerce--
although counter to them--
they fighjt gov regulation--
we don't know why--
Carolina farms--
tester-hagan--
some protection--
PASA--
supporting it--
they follow the line--
they cut deals with committee--
to support it--
never apprecited inpact of sec 103--
HACCP--
never be listed in opposition--
food facility--
HACCP plan expensive
appropriate for when have a lot of units--
pushed by microbiologists--
Dr William Sperber--knows hazards of HACCP--
mandating one style of food safety--
write a lot of rules--
doing a prohibited
follow the rules as a defense--
become a nation of rule followers--
as opposed to those using scientific methods--
every farmer survives by observation--
You got to be present
REACH BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS
They owe nothing to Nancy Pelosi
Hamil, an easy Michael Bulgar--
food study student--
student of Marian Nestle--
little regard for truth--
a sophisticated troll--
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