Here are the Republicans who bucked the party on baby formula bills

The Hill ^ | 05/19/22 12:22 AM ET | BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL

[RandFan]

A handful of Republican lawmakers bucked their party on Wednesday in votes on two separate bills aiming to address the nationwide baby formula shortage causing rising concern for parents across the country.

The main bill, dubbed the Infant Formula Supplemental Appropriations Act, passed in a 231-192 vote that mainly broke along party lines. Four Republicans and one Democrat did not vote.

The legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) $28 million in emergency funding to respond to the scarcity of baby formula.

Twelve Republicans bucked House GOP leadership and voted for the legislation: Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Trey Hollingsworth (Ind.), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), David McKinley (W.Va.), Tom Rice (S.C.), Chris Smith (N.J.), Michael Turner (Ohio), Fred Upton (Mich.) and Ann Wagner (Mo.).

Earlier on Wednesday, Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) sent a memo to all House GOP offices recommending that members vote against the legislation. He argued that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) brought up the bill “in hopes of covering up the administration’s ineptitude by throwing additional money at the FDA with no plan to actually fix the problem, all while failing to hold the FDA accountable.”

The House on Wednesday also passed the Access to Baby Formula Act in a 414-9 vote that was largely bipartisan. Five Republicans and one Democrat did not vote.

The bill calls for permanently relaxing restrictions on the kinds of baby formula that individuals in the federal low-income assistance program for women, children and infants are allowed to purchase. The program is formally known as the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, commonly referred to as the WIC program.

The only opposition to the legislation came from the Republican Party: the no votes were Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Clay Higgins (La.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas).

There was no overlap in the two groups of GOP outlier votes.

Massie and Greene have stood out for their votes on a number of recent occasions, at times bucking the majority of their party to oppose bipartisan measures such as aide to Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.

[Sacajaweau]

No need for a bill....more waste...

This happened because the FDA screwed up.

[rarestia]

I find it almost hilarious that they’re even paying attention to the power structure laid out in the constitution. These idiots have been stealing from Americans for decades, but now they have these virtue signaling bills to make it seem like they’re doing something. It’s just slush money going into the already bloated coffers of some federal executive bureau.

[SmokingJoe]

The legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) $28 million in emergency funding to respond to the scarcity of baby formula.

$28 million for baby formula in America and a staggering $40 Billion for the corruptocrats in Ukraine?
Figures.

[Clutch Martin]

So.... the FDA screws up, funding for baby formula ensues, restrictions are lifted, the formula issue gets a stint and the Ukraine gets $40 billion?

Is that true?

Well.... if it is true was the crises manufactured to cook the books?

[dasboot]

The shortage is not a screw up: just another part of the purposefully crafted scuttling of a healthy, free economy by a coven of thieves.
It will be built back better’, with the grifter ‘big guys’ getting their 10%, and putting the useful idiots on the payroll.
C’mon, man!

[Tupelo]

Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Matt Gaetz (Fla.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.), Clay Higgins (La.), Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Chip Roy (Texas)

This is the complete list of incumbents I would vote for. Sad thing is I do not live any of their districts. At least we have two of them here in Arizona.

[ByteMercenary]

I agree with the dissenters - the FDA doesn’t need more money. The a$$wholes in management need to get off their oversized and overweight behinds and get the a$$wholes in investigation and enforcement to start working a 40 hour week. Light a fire under the whole crew. Do the Netflix thing: if you don’t like what you are asked to do, maybe this is not the job you should stay in.

This could also be applied to most FedGov institutions.

[Flick Lives]

The House on Wednesday also passed the Access to Baby Formula Act in a 414-9 vote...

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Flick’s Rule 42: Every bill in Congress means the exact opposite of its title.

There will be even less baby formula available following government intervention.

[Bratch]

Biden Administration Invoke Defense Production Act, HHS Will Now Control Means of Production for Baby Formula and Ensure Distribution Equity

May 18, 2022 | sundance | 275 Comments

Do you know what it’s technically called when “government takes control of the means of production?” 

Yeah, that.

This afternoon Joe Biden invoked the Defense Production Act (DPA) giving Health and Human Services (HHS) the legal authority to control the supplies needed for the creation of baby formula (how it is made), and the authority to determine distribution equity (who gets it).  

Emphasis mine:

White House [DPA Sec. 2] – “[T]he authority of the President conferred by section 101 of the Act to require performance of contracts or orders … is delegated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to all health resources, including the ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula.”

“(b)  The Secretary of Health and Human Services may use the authority under section 101 of the Act to determine, in consultation with the Secretary of Agriculture and the heads of other executive departments and agencies as appropriate, the proper nationwide priorities and allocation of all ingredients necessary to manufacture infant formula, including controlling the distribution of such materials (including applicable services) in the civilian market, for responding to the shortage of infant formula within the United States.” (read more)

HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, an über-leftist who ironically self-describes as an abortion absolutist, is now in charge of infant formula manufacture and distribution. You do not need to be a conspiracy theorist to predict which “at risk” group will get priority distribution of limited resources.

 

[Carriage Hill]

“The legislation would grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) $28 million in emergency funding to respond to the scarcity of baby formula.”

That doesn’t even make sense to US Taxpayers. Just GET OFF THE BACKS OF ABBOTT AND OTHER MFGRS, gov’t morons!

[OrioleFan]

Buying off Moms Bill (or BM bill).

[KC_Conspirator]

I know, what a pile. FDA fails to do basic due diligence in forecasting and no one is held accountable.

[kabar]

Gonzalez, Rice, Kinzinger, and Katko voted to impeach Trump. Almost half of the 10 that did.

[Enterprise]

I don’t think it is possible for any ruler or dictator, or group of criminals to even come close to the trillions of dollars the DEMOCRATS have looted from this nation. NOT EVEN CLOSE EVER!

[Sequoyah101]

FDA makes baby formula? I never knew that.

Of course they don’t.

More waste and ineptitude.

[Sirius Lee]

So.... the FDA screws up, funding for baby formula ensues, restrictions are lifted

They must have read that book. "Fail! Fail Your Way to Success!"

[Fresh Wind]

Brian Fitzpatrick-RINO Deluxe

A “Republican” that I will never vote for.

[KC Burke]

You are right.

The FDA and other government clerks exceedingly over-controlled baby formula production to flex their governmental muscles and screwed up the availability of that staple. Infants and mothers suffered.

The rest is just games to throw money to government assholes.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Reps. Don Bacon (Neb.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Anthony Gonzalez (Ohio), Trey Hollingsworth (Ind.), John Katko (N.Y.), Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), David McKinley (W.Va.), Tom Rice (S.C.), Chris Smith (N.J.), Michael Turner (Ohio), Fred Upton (Mich.) and Ann Wagner (Mo.).
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Bush League Republicans all.

The good news is that Kinzinger, Gonzalez, Upton and McKinley are not coming back.
The rest should be primaried out.