Posted on 06/22/2011 8:21:45 AM PDT by Sopater
And with that budget hit, the so-called “food safety” law can’t be implemented—and no money to approve Frankenfish! This is huge!
Last week the House of Representatives passed the agriculture funding bill for fiscal year 2012, and the bill included a gigantic cut in FDA’s budget. This is particularly significant because they were tasked with implementing most of the provisions of the Food Safety Modernization Act that Congress passed last year.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cost of implementing the Food Safety act would be $1.4 billion over five years. The whopping $285 million budget cut makes it likely that many of the enforcement and oversight provisions of the act will not be implemented. FDA told an industry publication just before the vote that if the House funding cuts were approved, there will be a “significant delay in implementation of the new Food Safety Modernization Act (including the law’s nineteen priority areas, especially import oversight, training, and inspections).”
Before final passage of the agriculture funding bill, the House approved an amendment by Rep. Don Young (R-AK) to prohibit the FDA from spending money to approve an application for the controversial genetically engineered salmon.
Now the funding bill moves on to the Senate. ANH-USA will work hard to make sure the GE salmon amendment stays in place. If it passes in the Senate as well, FDA will not be allowed to use its funds in FY2012 to approve genetically engineered salmon. This is a big win!
Last but not least, it's NOT THEIR MONEY, IT"S OURS!
A good place to begin, would be their own salaries, healthcare, pension, franking, staff, cars phones, airline travel, then on to the Department of State, each dime to any country that votes against us in the U.N. and speaking of them, cut any and all money to support that anti-American bunch, to keep them in the U.S. one minute longer, now try cutting each and every dime that goes to support illegal aliens, to fund research, to support the "no child left behind," to support the school lunch (now breakfast, dinner, snacks before during and after each meal!)
Then, come to me and try to impress me; nope, no way am I going to be satisfied with mere crumbs from the table from these liars, cheats, womanizers, gay-loving, military-hating worthless slime.
Senate can restore it, but the House has already said NO. Senate can’t override the House.
Thus “cut” is nothing more than cleaning one bug off the windshield of a semi tractor after one year of night driving in the South.
Right the EPA has to go. AND EDU.
That's why it will go to a House-Senate conference committee. The bill that comes out of the committee will then go back to the House and Senate for straight up or down majority votes (no filibusters on budget reconciliation bills).
That's how the last budget got passed with no real spending cuts.
About 105 minutes. The US government spends about 3.92 billion more, per day, than it takes in, per day.
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