Posted on 11/30/2010 9:27:25 PM PST by Revel
A food safety bill that has burned up precious days of the Senate’s lame-duck session appears headed back to the chamber because Democrats violated a constitutional provision requiring that tax provisions originate in the House.
By pre-empting the House’s tax-writing authority, Senate Democrats appear to have touched off a power struggle with members of their own party in the House. The Senate passed the bill Tuesday, sending it to the House, but House Democrats are expected to use a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, according to House and Senate GOP aides.
The debacle could prove to be a major embarrassment for Senate Democrats, who sought Tuesday to make the relatively unknown bill a major political issue by sending out numerous news releases trumpeting its passage.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
Until they discovered the Senate appropriated the money.
Oops!
Great news, The food bill is a disaster takeover of the food business by Omullah.
Didn’t the bums know this ?
wow, they have no idea when it comes to the constitution of the United States. Soviet style Keystone Kopz.
Many ‘Blue Dogs’ lost reelection.
Yeah, just like Health Care Reform !!
ping
Too good to be true?
The Lord’s intervention here ?
REPUBLICANS ALSO VOTED FOR THIS TREACHEROUS POS:
How each Senator voted on SB510 Food Safety Bill
Mike Johanns (R-NE) is a two-faced, back-stabbing, BIG GOVERNMENT TURD... He is target NUMERO UNO in my book...
I am going to move a mountain to see him defeated in 2012
He’s also a BIG FAN of UNIONIZING PUBLIC SAFETY WORKERS!
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Yea
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Nay
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Begich (D-AK), Yea
Bennet (D-CO), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Yea
Bond (R-MO), Not Voting
Boxer (D-CA), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Yea
Brown (R-MA), Yea
Brownback (R-KS), Not Voting
Bunning (R-KY), Nay
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Cantwell (D-WA), Yea
Cardin (D-MD), Yea
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Nay
Coburn (R-OK), Nay
Cochran (R-MS), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Coons (D-DE), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Nay
Cornyn (R-TX), Nay
Crapo (R-ID), Nay
DeMint (R-SC), Nay
Dodd (D-CT), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Ensign (R-NV), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Yea
Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Franken (D-MN), Yea
Gillibrand (D-NY), Yea
Graham (R-SC), Nay
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagan (D-NC), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Johanns (R-NE), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Kirk (R-IL), Yea
Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Nay
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea
Leahy (D-VT), Yea
LeMieux (R-FL), Yea
Levin (D-MI), Yea
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Manchin (D-WV), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Nay
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Nay
Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Yea
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Yea
Reid (D-NV), Yea
Risch (R-ID), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schumer (D-NY), Yea
Sessions (R-AL), Nay
Shaheen (D-NH), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (D-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Yea
Thune (R-SD), Nay
Udall (D-CO), Yea
Udall (D-NM), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (D-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Nay
Wyden (D-OR), Yea
HERE IS THE LISTING OF THOSE ORGANIZATION THAT SUPPORT AND OPPOSE SB 510:
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510
HERE IS THE MONEY TRAIL TO THE POLITICIANS:
http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/111-s-510/360488/total-contributions
MATCH THE NUMBERS UP WITH THE “YEA” VOTES
Indeed. This is the first step down the road of tyranny to strip the house of the power of the purse.
It’s also the first real test in a long time of that principle, given the house/senate split.
We need to fire emails and phone calls to Republicans in DC.
They need to fillibuster where they can. take a knee and run out the clock at other times.
We voted the bums out. That is the will of the American people. They screwed us on Christmas eve of last year. Don’t let it happen again.
“We can only pray that our food freedom will be protected from Monsanto’s insatiable greed, it does not matter what the mechanism might be.”
Yes, the failure of this bill would be the result of divine intervention.
The FDA should be disbanded, not expanded.
I wish you were wrong. I know you are not.
Our food is fine people.
Cook it properly. use common sense. Don’t eat a half raw hamburger or steak. Veggies from the store are actully much safer than veggies canned at home because they know if someone comes down with a case of botulism, they are are going to be out of business almost overnight. And lawyers will move in with a full cavity search.
Fast Food restaurants have the safest meat for this reason as well. The scraps are being fed to public school students through the wonderful USDA.
” ... If the GOP filibusters them ... “
A Very Big “IF”. Present GOP leadership is totally in alignment with globalist and International Financial powers pushing for the enslavement of USA citizens.
GOP Leadership is busy installing RINOs into every critical leadership position in the next Congress in an attempt to mitigate Tea Party influence over the next two years, and beyond! JMHO
“Don’t eat a half raw hamburger or steak.”
OK, I’ll eat it almost raw. I’ve been doing it for years, and have never even had an upset stomach.
The whole society should not be organized to cater to people with weak immune systems, or food allergies (which can be terrifying).
oh gees. you are one of those “rare” people...
I go medium well.
“Yeah, just like Health Care Reform !!”
Yep. This is pretty much what happened back then.
We used to hang traitors but it seems we make senators out of them now.
“We used to hang traitors but it seems we make senators out of them now.”
The U.S. Senate is bought and paid for by global corporations. Like Vito Corleone they only ask for a “favor” very seldom, and then they really call in their debts and use them to pass the legislation they really want.
The Swiss cope with this problem by Federal initiative and referendum. It only takes 100,000 signatures there to put something on the ballot and overturn one of these corrupt sweetheart deals.
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