Are there no Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee?
Is the “blue slip” not an option for Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee?
Please pardon my ignorance.
I don’t believe it. I don’t know factually a reason this would be done, but the House as the source of all bills for taxation is known by even the janitors in D.C.
I don’t believe this was an oversight on the part of the Dems. There’s too damned many of them that one of them wouldn’t have seen the problem before hand.
Perhaps it was a purposeful move to cause a source of blame to relieve certain persons of the responsibility of promises made to Monsanto lobbyists, or something along those lines.
NO WAY am I going to believe this was an oops!
So was this combined cleverness on the part of the House leadership and some GOP senators? Were they cognizant of the constitutional issue all along, but did they not raise it until after the Senate vote in order to assure this outcome?
I’m assuming the too-many GOP senators that voted for it kept quiet simply because they hoped it would squeak through unnoticed.
House Democrats will just deem it passed.
Didn't take long did it?
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
* DECEMBER 2, 2010
‘Food Safety’ and the GOP
Republicans enable more Obama regulation.
The Senate waved through the largest expansion of food regulation since FDR on Tuesday, 73 to 25, and maybe the bill won the votes of 13 Republicans because there was hardly any public controversy. These days, the government needs to take over entire industries to get anyone to notice.
Not that this bill in the name of food safety isn’t a down payment. The Food and Drug Administration will gain new powers over the 2.2 million farms and 28,000 food producers in America—including federal standards for agricultural practices and food processing, transportation and storage—as well as the authority to mandate nationwide recalls.
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The price offered to farmers for grain (wheat, corn, sorghum) shot up by about 10% yesterday after drifting down for a few weeks. Soybeans $0.40. Looks like this bill will nip the food customer big time.