LIST OF SENATORS BRIBED TO SUPPORT S.510 - THE 'FOOD TYRANNY ACT'

[donnay]

URGENT ACTION ALERT ON FOOD SAFETY LEGISLATION

The Senate is coming back for the lame duck session, and the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) is scheduled for a cloture vote this week.  We have asked you to take action on this issue several times this year, and now were in the final push.  It is critical that you call your Senators NOW to urge them to amend or oppose S.510!

S.510 greatly expands FDAs authority over both processed foods and fresh fruits and vegetables, and would give FDA authority to impose extensive, burdensome requirements on even the smallest processing facilities and farms that sell to local consumers.

We need the Tester-Hagan amendment to protect our vulnerable local food producers!

TAKE ACTION

Please call BOTH of your Senators.  You can find their contact information at www.Senate.gov or by calling the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Urge your Senators to amend or oppose S.510, and specifically to:

1) SUPPORT the TESTER-HAGAN AMENDMENT to prevent the imposition of new federal regulations on small-scale, direct-marketing producers.

2) OPPOSE any amendment to add criminal penalties to S.510.

As it is currently written, S.510 would make our food supply LESS safe by harming local producers, increasing our reliance on imported foods due to the burden on domestic producers, and giving FDA new powers without holding the agency accountable for its failures.
 
TALKING POINTS

1.  Small, local food producers have not contributed to the highly publicized foodborne illness outbreaks and should not be subjected to extensive new federal regulation.   Although S. 510 includes some provisions that call for flexibility, the bills current language still imposes extensive new requirements on even the smallest farmers and food producers.  State and local regulation have already proven to be enough for local food producers; we dont need new federal regulations.

2.  Increased regulations and record-keeping obligations could destroy small businesses that bring both jobs and food to local communities.  In this time of economic hardship, we need more local food businesses! Congress should work to reduce regulatory burdens on them, not increase them.

3.  Food safety and security both come from a diversified, vibrant local food system.  Local foods give consumers the choice to buy from producers they know, creating a transparent, accountable food system without federal government oversight.

4.  Additional FDA regulation is counterproductive.  FDA has not used its existing authority well.  Instead of focusing its resources on the problems posed by imported foods and large processing facilities, FDA has chosen to target small processors.  While approving unlabeled GMOs to enter our food supply, it has opposed raw milk and interfered with the free choice of informed adults who want access to this healthy food.  Simply giving FDA increased authority and power will not improve the food supply unless Congress requires the agency to focus on Agribusiness and not small, local producers.

5.  Increased regulation of our domestic food suppliers will lead to greater dependence on imported foods, harming both our economy and our security.  The bill will create incentives for retailers to import more food from other countries, because it will burden family farms and small business and because it will be practically impossible to hold foreign food facilities to the same standards and inspections.  The bill will create a considerable competitive disadvantage for ALL U.S. agriculture and food production (see analysis at http://ftcldf.org/news/news-20Oct2009-2.html).

6.  S.510 does not address many of the fundamental problems with our food.  The bill does not cover the factory livestock farms that are the source of dangerous E. coli 0157:H7, nor does it address issues such as BPA, pesticide and herbicide contamination, GMOs, or the many other contaminants that impact our health.  It is not productive to focus on bacterial contamination and nothing else.

[donnay]

~BUMP~

[Optimus]

BUMP

http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/s-510-is-hissing-in-the-grass/#more-1828

  Read the 10 items below.  It will make you scream.  THE POLICE STATE IS HERE.  In fact item 10 mentions police state.  AJ haas mentioned this on his show.  THIS IS MADNESS ON STEROIDS.  Of course our scum Senators will probably pass this.

S 510 is hissing in the grass
April 24, 2010 · 33 Comments



BUZZ THIS!

By Steve Green

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010,  may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US.  It is to our food what the bailout was to our economy, only we can live without money.

“If accepted [S 510] would preclude the public’s right to grow, own, trade, transport, share, feed and eat each and every food that nature makes.  It will become the most offensive authority against the cultivation, trade and consumption of food and agricultural products of one’s choice. It will be unconstitutional and contrary to natural law or, if you like, the will of God.”  ~Dr. Shiv Chopra, Canada Health whistleblower

It is similar to what India faced with imposition of the salt tax during British rule, only S 510 extends control over all food in the US, violating the fundamental human right to food.

Monsanto says it has no interest in the bill and would not benefit from it, but Monsanto’s Michael Taylor who gave us rBGH and unregulated genetically modified (GM) organisms, appears to have designed it and is waiting as an appointed Food Czar to the FDA (a position unapproved by Congress) to administer the agency it would create — without judicial review — if it passes.  S 510 would give Monsanto unlimited power over all US seed, food supplements, food and farming.

HISTORY

In the 1990s, Bill Clinton introduced HACCP (Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Points) purportedly to deal with contamination in the meat industry.  Clinton’s HACCP delighted the offending corporate (World Trade Organization “WTO”) meat packers since it allowed them to inspect themselves, eliminated thousands of local food processors (with no history of contamination), and centralized meat into their control.  Monsanto promoted HACCP.

In 2008, Hillary Clinton, urged a powerful centralized food safety agency as part of her campaign for president.  Her advisor was Mark Penn, CEO of Burson Marsteller*, a giant PR firm representing Monsanto.  Clinton lost, but Clinton friends such as Rosa DeLauro, whose husband’s firm lists Monsanto as a progressive client and globalization as an area of expertise, introduced early versions of S 510.

S 510 FAILS ON MORAL, SOCIAL, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, CONSTITUTIONAL, AND HUMAN SURVIVAL GROUNDS.

1.  It puts all US food and all US farms under Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, in the event of contamination or an ill-defined emergency.  It resembles the Kissinger Plan.

2.  It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.  It would end the Uruguay Round Agreement Act of 1994, which put US sovereignty and US law under perfect protection.  Instead, S 510 says:

COMPLIANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS.

Nothing in this Act (or an amendment made by this Act) shall be construed in a manner inconsistent with the agreement establishing the World Trade Organization or any other treaty or international agreement to which the United States is a party.

 3. It would allow the government, under Maritime Law, to define the introduction of any food into commerce (even direct sales between individuals) as smuggling into “the United States.” Since under that law, the US is a corporate entity and not a location, “entry of food into the US” covers food produced anywhere within the land mass of this country and “entering into” it by virtue of being produced.

4.  It imposes Codex Alimentarius on the US, a global system of control over food.  It allows the United Nations (UN), World Health Organization (WHO), UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the WTO to take control of every food on earth and remove access to natural food supplements.  Its bizarre history and its expected impact in limiting access to adequate nutrition (while mandating GM food, GM animals, pesticides, hormones, irradiation of food, etc.) threatens all safe and organic food and health itself, since the world knows now it needs vitamins to survive, not just to treat illnesses.

5.  It would remove the right to clean, store and thus own seed in the US, putting control of seeds in the hands of Monsanto and other multinationals, threatening US security. See Seeds – How to criminalize them, for more details.

6. It includes NAIS, an animal traceability program that threatens all small farmers and ranchers raising animals. The UN is participating through the WHO, FAO, WTO, and World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) in allowing mass slaughter of even heritage breeds of animals and without proof of disease.  Biodiversity in farm animals is being wiped out to substitute genetically engineered animals on which corporations hold patents.  Animal diseases can be falsely declared.  S 510 includes the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), despite its corrupt involvement in the H1N1 scandal, which is now said to have been concocted by the corporations.

7.  It extends a failed and destructive HACCP to all food, thus threatening to do to all local food production and farming what HACCP did to meat production – put it in corporate hands and worsen food safety.

8. It deconstructs what is left of the American economy.  It takes agriculture and food, which are the cornerstone of all economies, out of the hands of the citizenry, and puts them under the total control of multinational corporations influencing the UN, WHO, FAO and WTO, with HHS, and CDC, acting as agents, with Homeland Security as the enforcer.  The chance to rebuild the economy based on farming, ranching, gardens, food production, natural health, and all the jobs, tools and connected occupations would be eliminated.

9. It would allow the government to mandate antibiotics, hormones, slaughterhouse waste, pesticides and GMOs. This would industrialize every farm in the US, eliminate local organic farming, greatly increase global warming from increased use of oil-based products and long-distance delivery of foods, and make food even more unsafe.  The five items listed — the Five Pillars of Food Safety — are precisely the items in the food supply which are the primary source of its danger.

10. It uses food crimes as the entry into police state power and control. The bill postpones defining all the regulations to be imposed; postpones defining crimes to be punished, postpones defining penalties to be applied.  It removes fundamental constitutional protections from all citizens in the country, making them subject to a corporate tribunal with unlimited power and penalties, and without judicial review.  It is (similar to C-6 in Canada) the end of Rule of Law in the US.

[EvadingGrid]

Lets tell these creeps what is and what is not their biz.

What I eat, for better or worse - is my choice...

[attietewd]

bump

[Optimus]

IN THE WAKE OF S.510 FAKE FOOD SAFETY...., IT WON'T BE 'WHAT'S FOR DINNER,' IT WILL BE 'WILL WE HAVE DINNER?'
http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29672.php
11-15-2010 7:59 pm - Marti Oakley

I can only imagine the salivating occurring behind the scenes in the District of Criminals, as the corporations and interested parties including the World Trade Organization, Codex Committees and other vested stakeholders anticipate the passage of S.510, the fake food safety bill. Should this bill pass, we as a country will be officially divested not only of our sovereignty but of our independence. No country in the history of the world has survived for long without a strong and independent agricultural sector. Take that away, and the fall of the country soon follows. No nation that cannot, or will not, feed its own people, ever survives. Independent agriculture is and always has been the backbone and the underlying support for economic stability and security. It is this support and security that S.510 seeks to destroy.

S.510 is not about food safety; it is however the last lynchpin in the seizure of food production and supply that was begun under Bush the Lesser. Control the food; control the people.

This same model envisioned in S.510 was used in recent years in Poland. An estimated 60% of Polish farms are now gone. In India, more than 8 million farmers have left their farms as a result of similar systems implemented by the World Trade Organization on behalf of bio-pirates of all kinds. Here in the US an estimated 1/3 of all farms that existed in 2000, have now vanished. We are, according to farmaid.org , losing 3-500 farms and ranches every week as the industrialized corporate machine being driven by congress and its agencies rolls across our land. Food safety never was the issue. Food as a Weapon is another story.

S.510 is set up to increase and subsidize exporting of our food production. With a food crisis building around the world and economists and geo-political prognosticators of all stripes predicting a massive food shortage, why in the world would our congress be contemplating passing a bill that expands and increases exports of our food products? Wouldn’t the rational and logical strategy be:

1. to reduce exports,
2. stockpile as much grain in strategic reserve as possible, (USDA sold our strategic reserve in 2008)
3. strategic reserves of dairy commodities especially in the Western States where USDA claims there is a glut of dairy
4. reinforcement of local producers who can keep their surrounding communities supplied with fresh produce and meats
5. Subsidies for farmers markets which would not only encourage the entry into produce production but would also help to boost the economies of the communities
6. Re-establish the strategic reserves of grains and other commodities and make this irrevocable
7. Make export possible only if and when adequate supplies are built up to back up the US
8. Once surplus levels are established, allow export only at levels beyond this.
9. Limit imports to only those products we cannot produce here, such as various tropical fruits.

Simply reducing the amount of imported food products that we should be producing ourselves would reduce the contamination that results in food borne illness. Focusing on inspections of foods that are imported would further reduce the risk. Ending the practice of factory farming where disease is known to run rampant as a result of the cramped and unsanitary conditions requiring massive use of pharmaceuticals to keep these animals alive and on their feet would also reduce the risk. Actually inspecting processing plants and slaughterhouses more than once every five years would be a big help, along with holding on site inspectors personally and civilly liable for failure to report infractions they observe. Repealing HACCP self inspection for corporate industrialized producers could go along way in making our food supply safe and clean. Yet, none of this is in the bill.

In anticipation of USDA and FDA expanding their death grip on the nation, and while both rogue agencies cry about under funding after having billions of taxpayer dollars dumped into them, plus the billions they have made from contracting with other private corporations for profit and against the people, both agencies are busy hiring and training swat teams to use against family and independent producers. They can’t be too underfunded. And if they are in fact underfunded, wouldn’t the rational response be to streamline the agencies and cut out wasteful spending?

While congress contemplates whether or not to pass S.510 claiming that expansion of these uncontrollable agencies will make food safer! Here’s a small list of what happened while congress looked the other way:

The peanut recall: The Georgia Peanut company owned by a man who had a seat on the USDA Peanut Control board…..knowingly sent out contaminated peanut products, poisoned several people, killed a few and then liquidated his company. No charges ever filed.

The Egg Recall: Wright County Egg company cited more than 20 times prior to the attack of the terrorist eggs, and only given another “warning letter” by the FDA after the massive recall. Still in operation. No raids. No swat teams. No interruption of daily business.

China imports melamine contaminated milk-like products in to the US for the –what is it—50th time? USDA: No fines, no penalties, no raids on their shipments, no impeding their imports, no halting of imports from China.

The FDA responds to this contamination knowing full well that melamine ishighly toxic at any level…..and sets standards for acceptable levels of melamine in China’s milk-like products for sale here in the US. No labeling required, of course.

Too many of us have confused “free trade even if it kills your economy and you” with capitalism. In either case, why does this philosophy not apply to our family and independent farmers and ranchers? Why is “free trade at any expense” reserved only for multi-national corporations? Why is every other sector of the economy supposed to be allowed to engage in a free-for-all at the entire countries expense, but when it comes to family and independent agriculture there are literally hundreds of thousands of regulations, limitations, rules, and requirements, licensing, and forfeiture of rights, spanning multiple agencies who spend the bulk of their funding on “enforcement” of what usually amounts to nothing less than an interference in trade, profit and viability and which many times constitute an open assault on Constitutionally protected property and individual rights.

Many so-called “consumer” organizations, comprised of front groups presenting themselves as if they actually represent all consumers, have weighed in on this bill. Looking behind these groups you find corporations and the USDA among other agencies, funding them. That should tell you most of what you need to know about them. Many 501c3 non-profits make public declarations that they take no government money, and that’s why you can trust them. Their non-profit tax statements tell a different story. A grant is funding; even if it comes from the USDA or other federal agency and it contains an implied and specified contract. It isn’t money free of strings.

We do need a food safety bill but S.510 isn’t it. We need a bill that supports our farmers and ranchers, protects our food supply, limits imports, and boosts the in country production of safe and clean food; not one that takes the nations ability to feed itself and hands it over to multi-national pirates willing to grease the palms in the District of Criminals.

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Resources:

Food as a Weapon: Farm Wars power point presentation

For the long, long list of contaminated Chinese imports covering everything from pet food to toothpaste, and of course that wonderful melamine contaminated milk junk…simply type: Contaminated Chinese Food Imports……into your search. Get a drink and get comfy…you’re going to be on that page for quite awhile.

Farm Aid.org

Statistics on Foreign owners of US land

Peanut Company Knew Its Plant Was Contaminated With Salmonella

FDA Issues Warning Letter to Wright County Egg

FDA sets melamine standards

Melamine toxicity

[egypt]

I just love how this goes hand-in-hand with the starvation camps that are ready & waiting -- aka FEMA Camps.

FEMA Camps are known to authorities as starvation camps... they are taught that this is what they are for.

This no-gardening-for-our-safety is mega in the takeover.  Look how they have diverted the water in the central valley of CA (used to be the 8th largest economy in the world - Agriculture).  Persons gone missing, or dead.  Forged deeds on homes.  Homes razed one day and mysteriously "rebuilt" overnight.   All in the name of re-routing the water and destroying beautiful prime-producing orchards and other agriculture.  They say there is no water.  Much of the water system of CA included the building of dams and a canal to channel water to the Central Valley (San Joaquin).  The plot to destroy food production includes diverting the water with underground piping back up north again.

It should be a huge wakeup call when any government "worries" so much about our safety that they ban growing our own gardens?  Why don't they care, instead, about our southern border with Mexico?

Obviously they are insane.  Obviously they are completely out-of-touch with reality in their endeavors of High Treason.  When will they be arrested?

Love, e

[MonkeyPuppet]

Received in response to my letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)

Dear Friend:
     Thank you for contacting me regarding S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009.  I welcome your thoughts and comments.
 
     I believe that burdening our nation’s hardworking ranchers and farmers with excessive administrative fees, as well as cumbersome regulations, could adversely impact the agriculture community.  Farmers and ranchers are stewards of the land.  The agriculture they produce is their livelihood.  The agriculture industry is a special and important part of the Texas way of life and must be protected.  For that reason, I will not support any legislation that places bureaucratic and cumbersome regulations on our farmers and ranchers.
 
     On March 3, 2009, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) introduced S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act.  The bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to expand the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to regulate food, including by authorizing the Secretary to suspend the registration of a food facility.  It requires each food facility to evaluate hazards and implement preventive controls.  It also directs the Secretary to assess and collect fees related to: (1) food facility reinspection; (2) food recalls; and (3) the voluntary qualified importer program.
           
     Currently, the bill has been placed on the Senate calendar for a later introduction date.  Should this bill be brought for consideration before the full Senate, you may be certain I will keep your views in mind. 
 
     I appreciate hearing from you, and I hope that you will not hesitate to contact me on any issue that is important to you.
 
Sincerely,
Kay Bailey Hutchison
United States Senator

[Freeski]

I actually thought this was just a dream, but it ain't.

[Suriel]

Do we know when they are going to try to bringg this to a floor for a vote?

[donnay]

I got this in my email alerts:

EMERGENCY ALERT! NOVEMBER 15, 2010

RED ALERT! S.510 WILL PASS ON WEDNESDAY
UNLESS WE PUSH BACK HARD NOW!
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

Campaign for Liberty broke the story earlier today [Monday 11.15.10] that S.510, the horrific, fake "food safety" bill (and possibly its evil companions, S.3767 and the discredited S.3002) will be pushed through the Lame Duck Congress this week. It is definitely on the Obama Lame Duck Agenda. Our friends in DC have confirmed this.

Update: 11.15.10 10 PM: Tea Party Nation reports: "On Wednesday, there will be a cloture vote on Senate bill S.510."

IT IS URGENT THAT EVERY HEALTH AND FOOD FREEDOM GROUP WARN THEIR SUPPORTERS AND FLOOD CONGRESS WITH "NO S.510!" MESSAGES, STARTING NOW!

Please forward this message widely. Please "take the Action Item" below each day this week, for each person in your family!

If you need information about the bills, see our Talking Points here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

Our action item, to email US Senators, is here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

THIS IS A RED ALERT! WE MUST FLOOD THE SENATE NOW!
Last November 150,000 emails held the bill in committee for nearly a year;
WE NEED EVEN MORE PUSH BACK RIGHT NOW!



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[donnay]

I got this via an e-mail from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

*Good news on the food safety bill!*

Senator Jon Tester has reached an agreement with the authors of S. 510 to
include a compromise version of the Tester-Hagan amendment in the Senate food
safety bill.

*This is a true grassroots victory, and would not have been possible without
your support! Thank you to everyone who called their Senators, both during this
week and the preceding months!!*

The compromise amendment will exempt producers who gross less than half a
million dollars and who sell more than half their products directly to consumers
or "qualified end users" from the HARCP/ HACCP requirements and the produce
safety standards. "Qualified end users" include restaurants and retailers who
are either in-state *or *within 275 miles of the producer, and who purchase the
food to sell directly to consumers.

The compromise version of the amendment allows FDA to withdraw the exemption if
a farm or facility is "directly linked" to a foodborne illness disease outbreak
or if it is "necessary" to "prevent or mitigate a foodborne illness outbreak
based on conduct or conditions" at the facility or farm.

The amendment includes other important provisions:

* It specifies that "retail food establishments" - which are exempt from the
existing requirements to register with FDA *and *from the new HACCP/ HARCP
requirements -- includes businesses that sell
directly to consumers through CSAs, farmers markets and roadside stands.

* It requires FDA to conduct a study that looks at the incidence of foodborne
illness in relation to the size and type of the facility, as well as the risks
associated with commingling, processing, transporting, and storing food,
"including differences in risk based on the scale and duration of such
activities." In other words, for the first time, FDA will have to collect and
evaluate data on how different management practices affect the risk of foodborne
illness.

* It requires FDA to consider that data in defining "very small businesses",
which will also be exempt from the HACCP/ HARCP requirements

While the inclusion of this amendment in the bill is very good news, it is not
the end of the process. If the bill ultimately passes, we will have to be
involved in the rulemaking process to address the issues facing medium-scale
producers and those who do not sell directly. We will also have to be prepared
to speak up and oppose any FDA abuse of its powers.

The bill itself has yet to pass the Senate, and it then must be reconciled with
the House version. We will continue to keep you updated on the bill's progress.

The amendment text and a summary are posted on Senator Tester's website
http://et.ratepoint.com/2cbbf1632dfc0c01ffb45c1972a73d0a/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b


Read more about S.510 on our website
http://et.ratepoint.com/596e81ff7024693a5f6c7c8f09ff5738/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b

[lee51]

http://www.naturalnews.com/030440_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act_Senate.html

Senate Bill 510 has already passed committee and is on the Senate calendar. It calls for enhanced expansion of FDA authority over small farms, ranches, and other food producers, establishes burdensome administrative requirements for large and small operations, and arbitrary legal authority to recall "unsafe medications," the definition of which is not clearly established; if in line with the global standard set by Codex Alimentarius, "unsafe medications" could extend to dietary supplements and herbal products. There is language that currently exempts from heavy regulation dietary supplement manufacturers and packagers. However, the FDA and its agents are notorious for interpreting regulations their own way.

How they voted so far
Here's how the senators voted on the motion to send S.510 to a full floor vote: (this is a procedural vote to move the bill forward so that it can be voted on for final passage)

Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward

Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagan (D-NC)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
LeMieux (R-FL)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Who OPPOSED S.510

Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Graham (R-SC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Wicker (R-MS)

[usefulidiot,uselesseater]

Our Gooberment clearly h8s us 

[NWOSCUM]

Now we know why they have been distracting us with all this TSA stuff. 

[citizenx]

Judging by the first post, it doesn't look good -- sad to say.

[Dig]

Now we know why they have been distracting us with all this TSA stuff. 

Yup that is why they have been raping 3 year olds and grandmothers. These "distracting" rapes of 3 year olds should not be talked about! We cannot be distracted from bullshit anti-constitutional fake legislators passing fraudulent edicts of tyranny. Just because a bunch of corrupt assholes vote to pass a bill does not make that bill constitutional. That is why they cannot enforce the Patriot Act, that is why the TSA is exposed as treasonous to the 4th amendment and many other parts of the constitution.

[donnay]

Update:

*Keep Up the Calls to Protect Local Farmers!*

The Senate just voted in favor of cloture on the Food Safety Modernization Act
(S.510). Now, the Senators will move ahead with debating the bills and
amendments. The final vote on the bill could come as early as tomorrow, although
nothing is certain at this time.

*If you have not yet called your Senators, please call them now, and urge them
to support the Tester-Hagan amendment!
*
S.510 greatly expands FDA’s authority over both processed foods and fresh fruits
and vegetables, and would give FDA authority to impose extensive, burdensome
requirements on even the smallest processing facilities and farms that sell to
local consumers. The Tester-Hagan amendment is the only amendment under
discussion that would provide clear, enforceable limits to the FDA's power to
protect small local farmers and producers from being driven out of business.

*TAKE ACTION:*

Call both of your Senators. You can find their contact information at
www.Senate.gov
<http://et.ratepoint.com/78ade6353c0602cb0ff3f8c2773b5f36/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b>,
or call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or toll-free at 877-210-5351.

Tell your Senators that you want them to amend or oppose S. 510, and
specifically to *support the Tester-Hagan amendment *to prevent the imposition
of new federal regulations on small-scale, direct-marketing producers.

You can get more information on S510 and the Tester-Hagan amendment on our
website
<http://et.ratepoint.com/0ab79c09482c5abb8883dadb9af4b255/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b>

TALKING POINTS

1. *Although S. 510 includes some provisions that call for flexibility, the
bill’s current language still imposes extensive new requirements on even the
smallest farmers and food producers. * Small, local food producers have not
contributed to the highly publicized foodborne illness outbreaks and should not
be subjected to extensive new federal regulation. State and local regulation
have already proven to be enough for local food producers; we don’t need new
federal regulations.

2. *Increased regulations and record-keeping obligations could destroy small
businesses that bring both jobs and food to local communities. * In this time of
economic hardship, we need more local food businesses! Congress should work to
reduce regulatory burdens on them, not increase them.

3. *Food safety and security both come from a diversified, vibrant local food
system. * Local foods give consumers the choice to buy from producers they know,
creating a transparent, accountable food system without federal government
oversight.

4. *Additional FDA regulation is counterproductive. *FDA has not used its
existing authority well. Instead of focusing its resources on the problems posed
by imported foods and large processing facilities, FDA has chosen to target
small processors. While approving unlabeled GMOs to enter our food supply, it
has opposed raw milk and interfered with the free choice of informed adults who
want access to this healthy food. Simply giving FDA increased authority and
power will not improve the food supply unless Congress requires the agency to
focus on Agribusiness and not small, local producers.

Read our latest fact sheet
http://et.ratepoint.com/21442dbd9aa5381f6d12aba03dcbeed8/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b
to the Senators and some FAQs
http://et.ratepoint.com/2a2fd19273ee30aefbc6efa5b3c2d062/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b 

for more information

[NWOSCUM]

Yup that is why they have been raping 3 year olds and grandmothers. These "distracting" rapes of 3 year olds should not be talked about! We cannot be distracted from bullshit anti-constitutional fake legislators passing fraudulent edicts of tyranny. Just because a bunch of corrupt assholes vote to pass a bill does not make that bill constitutional. That is why they cannot enforce the Patriot Act, that is why the TSA is exposed as treasonous to the 4th amendment and many other parts of the constitution.

Nobody has been "raped" those are "love pats" silly boy.......

[citizenx]

"Love pats"

Idea for new bumper stickers:

"TSA loves America -- they love to pat our boobs and junk!"

[independentWV]

Citizens for Health can send letter to Senators at link below
http://www.citizens.org/?page_id=2312

[ekimdrachir]

S510 PASSED - NWO's Depopulation Agenda
by Harry Link on Thursday, November 18, 2010 at 3:41pm

Who voted in FAVOR of moving S.510 forward, they voted to KILL YOU whether they knew it or not.

 
Akaka (D-HI)Alexander (R-TN)Barrasso (R-WY)......Baucus (D-MT)Bayh (D-IN)Begich (D-AK)Bennet (D-CO)Bingaman (D-NM)Boxer (D-CA)Brown (D-OH)Brown (R-MA)Burr (R-NC)Burris (D-IL)Cantwell (D-WA)Cardin (D-MD)Carper (D-DE)Casey (D-PA)Collins (R-ME)Conrad (D-ND)Coons (D-DE)Corker (R-TN)Dodd (D-CT)Dorgan (D-ND)Durbin (D-IL)Enzi (R-WY)Feingold (D-WI)Feinstein (D-CA)Franken (D-MN)Gillibrand (D-NY)Grassley (R-IA)Gregg (R-NH)Hagan (D-NC)Harkin (D-IA)Inouye (D-HI)Johanns (R-NE)Johnson (D-SD)Kerry (D-MA)Klobuchar (D-MN)Kohl (D-WI)Landrieu (D-LA)Lautenberg (D-NJ)LeMieux (R-FL)Leahy (D-VT)Levin (D-MI)Lieberman (ID-CT)Lincoln (D-AR)Lugar (R-IN)Manchin (D-WV)McCaskill (D-MO)Menendez (D-NJ)Merkley (D-OR)Mikulski (D-MD)Murray (D-WA)Nelson (D-FL)Pryor (D-AR)Reed (D-RI)Reid (D-NV)Rockefeller (D-WV)Sanders (I-VT)Schumer (D-NY)Shaheen (D-NH)Snowe (R-ME)Specter (D-PA)Stabenow (D-MI)Tester (D-MT)Thune (R-SD)Udall (D-CO)Udall (D-NM)Vitter (R-LA)Voinovich (R-OH)Warner (D-VA)Webb (D-VA)Whitehouse (D-RI)Wyden (D-OR)

 
Who OPPOSED S.510

 
Bennett (R-UT)Bond (R-MO)Brownback (R-KS)Bunning (R-KY)Chambliss (R-GA)Coburn (R-OK)Cochran (R-MS)Cornyn (R-TX)Crapo (R-ID)DeMint (R-SC)Ensign (R-NV)Graham (R-SC)Hatch (R-UT)Hutchison (R-TX)Inhofe (R-OK)Isakson (R-GA)Kyl (R-AZ)McCain (R-AZ)McConnell (R-KY)Nelson (D-NE)Risch (R-ID)Roberts (R-KS)Sessions (R-AL)Shelby (R-AL)Wicker (R-MS)

 
All of you who live in states where senators voted in favor of this need to call your U.S. Senate offices today — right now — and urge them to oppose this nefarious bill.

 
Call the Capitol Switchboard and ask to be directly connected to your Senator’s office: 202-224-3121.

 
We are about to lose our food freedoms over the bill, because unless more pressure is brought to bear, it looks like this bill will soon pass — and we will be thrust into a new era of FDA tyranny over the food supply

The Bill Calls for an Initial 18,000 Workers to be hired, Establishes the HHS department and Homeland Security to branch off, into other little sub sections. The Bill calls for more workers at a later date. Read the CBO REPORT. http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/117xx/doc11794/s510.pdf

[donnay]

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RED ALERT! SENATE TO VOTE on $. 510 TODAY!

At 6 PM Eastern the Senate Took another Step Closer to Final Passage - BUT WE CAN STILL PUSH BACK A FEW MORE HOURS!
THURSDAY, 11.18.10 - At 6 PM Eastern tonite the Senate took another step closer to final vote on S.510 and voted to move ahead, 57 to 27; 16 abstaining. - WE'RE STILL FIGHTING! EMAILS TO SENATE DECIDERS REACHING OVER 5,000 AN HOUR!

Still Time For PUSH BACK!
$.510 WILL PASS UNLESS WE PUSH BACK -- HARD!

ACTION ITEM: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Take It Viral NOW!
 Why $. 510 MUST NOT Pass: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

Take This VIRAL NOW!
MUST Flood Email Boxes and Switchboard

 TAKE ACTION ITEM NOW For Each Member of Your Household, THEN!
CALL YOUR SENATORS -
RIGHT NOW! Tell Them You Vigorously Oppose $.510
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

11.17.10 UPDATE
PUSH BACK rate reaches 5,000 emails an hour to decision makers!
Keep sending those messages! And PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS, Too
 
Senate Calendar Here:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/calendars.htm

 S.510, the horrific, fake "food safety" bill (and possibly its evil companions, $.3767 and the discredited S.3002) will be pushed through the Lame Duck Congress this week. It is definitely on the Obama Lame Duck Agenda. Our friends in DC have confirmed this.

Vote on Motion Thursday was 57 to 27 ... which is better than Wednesday's Cloture vote of 74 to 25!

Wednesday the Senate voted to end debate (cloture) on bill $.510, setting the stage for a final vote after Thursday's procedural motion vote.  The exact schedule of voting is not clear.  What is clear is that this bill, and its horrific companion pieces MUST NOT be allowed to pass despite the determination of the worst combination of Lame Duck destructiveness, Corporate greed and Regulatory irresponisiblity.

The delays, if they occur, may, in fact, be exactly what we need. The President, Secretary Sebelius and the US Senate have been bombarded with more than 600,000 emails from you and more from the supporters of the many, many health and food freedom groups who have followed our leads and asked their supporters to send the same message to the same recipients: DON'T YOU DARE!

So we may have hours or days to make sure that we still have food freedom without having to fight for repeal or use other strategies to make sure that we control the quality of the food that we eat.  Health Freedom, including food freedom, IS our first freedom.

IT IS URGENT THAT EVERY HEALTH AND FOOD FREEDOM GROUP WARN THEIR SUPPORTERS AND FLOOD CONGRESS WITH "NO $.510!" MESSAGES, NOW!

Please forward this message widely. Please take the Action Item below each day this week, for each person in your family!

For information about the bills, see our Talking Points here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

Our action item, to email US Senators, is here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

THIS IS A RED ALERT! WE MUST FLOOD THE SENATE NOW!
Last November 150,000 emails held the bill in committee for nearly a year;
WE NEED EVEN MORE PUSH BACK RIGHT NOW!

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[citizenx]

Extremely disappointing.  What about the amendment to exempt small farms which gross under 500,000$?

Did it pass?  Has it yet to be voted on?

[independentWV]

Extremely disappointing.  What about the amendment to exempt small farms which gross under 500,000$?

Did it pass?  Has it yet to be voted on?

It has not been voted on yet, the results above is cloture. 

[citizenx]

That's what I thought.

I am hoping the amendment passes at least.

[oyashango]

Do you have a link to the original article?  Thanks!

[citizenx]

re. amendment see Donnay's posts:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=192162

[Optimus]

I got this via an e-mail from the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

*Good news on the food safety bill!*

Senator Jon Tester has reached an agreement with the authors of S. 510 to
include a compromise version of the Tester-Hagan amendment in the Senate food
safety bill.

*This is a true grassroots victory, and would not have been possible without
your support! Thank you to everyone who called their Senators, both during this
week and the preceding months!!*

The compromise amendment will exempt producers who gross less than half a
million dollars and who sell more than half their products directly to consumers
or "qualified end users" from the HARCP/ HACCP requirements and the produce
safety standards. "Qualified end users" include restaurants and retailers who
are either in-state *or *within 275 miles of the producer, and who purchase the
food to sell directly to consumers.

The compromise version of the amendment allows FDA to withdraw the exemption if
a farm or facility is "directly linked" to a foodborne illness disease outbreak
or if it is "necessary" to "prevent or mitigate a foodborne illness outbreak
based on conduct or conditions" at the facility or farm.

The amendment includes other important provisions:

* It specifies that "retail food establishments" - which are exempt from the
existing requirements to register with FDA *and *from the new HACCP/ HARCP
requirements -- includes businesses that sell
directly to consumers through CSAs, farmers markets and roadside stands.

* It requires FDA to conduct a study that looks at the incidence of foodborne
illness in relation to the size and type of the facility, as well as the risks
associated with commingling, processing, transporting, and storing food,
"including differences in risk based on the scale and duration of such
activities." In other words, for the first time, FDA will have to collect and
evaluate data on how different management practices affect the risk of foodborne
illness.

* It requires FDA to consider that data in defining "very small businesses",
which will also be exempt from the HACCP/ HARCP requirements

While the inclusion of this amendment in the bill is very good news, it is not
the end of the process. If the bill ultimately passes, we will have to be
involved in the rulemaking process to address the issues facing medium-scale
producers and those who do not sell directly. We will also have to be prepared
to speak up and oppose any FDA abuse of its powers.

The bill itself has yet to pass the Senate, and it then must be reconciled with
the House version. We will continue to keep you updated on the bill's progress.

The amendment text and a summary are posted on Senator Tester's website
http://et.ratepoint.com/2cbbf1632dfc0c01ffb45c1972a73d0a/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b


Read more about S.510 on our website
http://et.ratepoint.com/596e81ff7024693a5f6c7c8f09ff5738/813b83e94367b1ee25b71c39b7bb169b

According to the Activist Post the Jon Tester Amendment to S. 510 is not a victory, but is a deception.


Propaganda Alert: AP reports Small Farms are Exempt from Food Safety Bill
http://www.activistpost.com/2010/11/propaganda-alert-ap-reports-small-farms.html
Activist Post

A day after the Food Safety Modernization Act (S.510) passed cloture with a vote of 74-25, the Associated Press put out some world-class propaganda claiming that "Some small farms would be exempt from government efforts to prevent foodborne illness under a Senate agreement on food safety legislation."  The article claims a last-minute deal was struck to allow small farms to "avoid expensive food safety plans:"

    The agreement brokered by Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana and announced Thursday would attempt to allay concerns of smaller farms about a food safety bill now pending in the Senate.

    That bill would give the FDA more authority to recall tainted products, increase inspections of food processors and require producers to follow stricter standards for keeping food safe.

    The agreement brokered by Tester would allow farmers who make less than $500,000 a year in revenue and sell directly to consumers, restaurants or grocery stores within their states or within 275 miles of their farms to avoid expensive food safety plans required of larger operations.

That all sounds well and good, but it only exempts them from having to submit food safety plans, not from inspections that they get billed for, licensing requirements with expensive quality controls, product confiscation without cause or recourse, and even armed raids.  We've already seen all of these ugly faces of food fascism unfold in America.  Private organic co-ops have been raided by armed guards, lemonade stands fined and closed down, Amish Dairies raided, and a family farm had 50,000 pounds of cheese confiscated.

This type of food tyranny is only likely to increase when the food safety bill passes, seizing the righteousness of protecting the people.  Evidently, the bill essentially transfers the authority over food regulation enforcement from the FDA to the Department of Homeland Security who brought us the liberty-killing, child-molesting TSA.  Finally, this bill will do nothing to protect the public from foodborne diseases, because it does nothing to fundamentally change the factory food production methods that allow them to fester.

The bill will allow the big agri-cartel to further consolidate the food industry, thus gaining even more control over food and humanity itself.  This, clearly, is the real purpose of this bill. We can expect to see the "authorities" raiding a lot more small, private health-food cooperatives like in the video below.  Tyranny is coming to a family farm or organic co-op near you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zPhhNUakc&feature=player_embedded

[donnay]

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RED ALERT! SENATE TO VOTE on $.510 TODAY!

At 6 PM Eastern the Senate Took another Step Closer to Final Passage - BUT WE CAN STILL PUSH BACK A FEW MORE HOURS!
Vote Expected Friday 11.19.10

THURSDAY, 11.18.10 - At 6 PM Eastern the Senate took another step closer to final vote on $.510 and voted to move ahead, 57 to 27; 16 abstaining.

WE'RE STILL FIGHTING! EMAILS TO SENATE DECIDERS REACHING OVER 5,000 AN HOUR!

Still Time For PUSH BACK!
$.510 WILL PASS UNLESS WE PUSH BACK -- HARD!

ACTION ITEM: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

Take It Viral NOW!
 Why $. 510 MUST NOT Pass: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=7446

Take This VIRAL NOW!
MUST Flood Email Boxes and Switchboard this Morning

 TAKE ACTION ITEM NOW For Each Member of Your Household, THEN!
CALL YOUR SENATORS -
RIGHT NOW! Tell Them You Vigorously Oppose $.510
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

11.17.10 UPDATE
PUSH BACK rate reaches 5,000 emails an hour to decision makers!
Keep sending those messages! And PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS, Too
 
Senate Calendar Here:
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/calendars.htm

 S.510, the horrific, fake "food safety" bill (and possibly its evil companions, S.3767 and the discredited S.3002) will be pushed through the Lame Duck Congress this week. It is definitely on the Obama Lame Duck Agenda. Our friends in DC have confirmed this.

Vote on Motion Thursday was 57 to 27 ... which is better than Wednesday's Cloture vote of 74 to 25!

Wednesday the Senate voted to end debate (cloture) on bill S.510, setting the stage for a final vote Friday after Thursday's procedural motion vote.  The exact schedule of voting is not clear.  What is clear is that this bill, and its horrific companion pieces MUST NOT be allowed to pass despite the determination of the worst combination of Lame Duck destructiveness, Corporate greed and Regulatory irresponsibility.

The delays, if they occur, may, in fact, be exactly what we need. The President, Secretary Sebelius and the US Senate have been bombarded with more than 600,000 emails from you and more from the supporters of the many, many health and food freedom groups who have followed our leads and asked their supporters to send the same message to the same recipients: DON'T YOU DARE!

So we may have hours or days to make sure that we still have food freedom without having to fight for repeal or use other strategies to make sure that we control the quality of the food that we eat.  Health Freedom, including food freedom, IS our first freedom.

IT IS URGENT THAT EVERY HEALTH AND FOOD FREEDOM GROUP WARN THEIR SUPPORTERS AND FLOOD CONGRESS WITH "NO S.510!" MESSAGES, NOW!

Please forward this message widely. Please take the Action Item below each day this week, for each person in your family!

For information about the bills, see our Talking Points here:
http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=6910

Our action item, to email US Senators, is here:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4613

THIS IS A RED ALERT! WE MUST FLOOD THE SENATE NOW!
Last November 150,000 emails held the bill in committee for nearly a year;
WE NEED EVEN MORE PUSH BACK RIGHT NOW!

DID YOU KNOW ALL OUR eBLASTS ARE ARCHIVED?  Access them all at
Health Freedom Action eAlert eBlast Archives
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/blastContent.jsp

DON'T FORGET: If you are involved in health care in any way, your determination to not allow your profession to be abused is of utmost importance.  Take the Health Keeper's Oath and pass it along to everyone you can reach in health care in any way.
www.HealthKeepersOath.org

We can't do this without your continuing help!
Please donate to make sure we can continue to fight!
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[independentWV]

“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
~Thomas Jefferson, 1778

[independentWV]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704170404575624370143283324.html

The delay resulted in the clock running out on the 30-hour time period senators had to debate and vote on the food-safety bill. The Senate then voted Thursday evening to pass another 30-hour period in which to vote.

Mr. Coburn said he was adamant that "a transparent vote on earmarks" must take place before any other legislation is voted on by the Senate.

If the Senate does approve the food-safety bill, Mr. Harkin said, the House has promised to pass it without making any changes and send it to the White House to be signed into law.

The bill, which has wide-ranging support from grocery stores, food processors, farm groups and consumer groups, would give the FDA the power to mandate food recalls and set new safety standards for food produced in the U.S. and imported from abroad.


They are determined....

[jofortruth]

Videos -  S. 510: A Clear and Present Danger:
http://www.govtrackinsider.com/articles/2010-11-15/s510

Oversight or overreach?
http://www.blip.tv/file/4251670?utm_source=player_embedded

[John_Back_From_The_Club_O]

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29693.php

WHICH SENATORS GOT PAID OFF TO SUPPORT S.510 - THE 'FOOD SAFETY MODERNIZATION ACT'?
11-18-2010 11:16 pm - John W. Wallace

The following is a list of U.S Senators and the Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that these Senators received from Special Interest Groups to either support or oppose S.510 - The FDA Food Safety and Modernization Act. I have listed the names of the Senators, the Party and State, and the amount of Special Interest Bribes (I mean campaign contributions) that they received:

Name of Senator - Party & State - Bribe For S.510 or Bribe Against S.510


Daniel Akaka - D HI - Bribe For: $27,690 - Against: $700

Lamar Alexander - R TN - Bribe For: $190,421 - Against: $4,850

John Barrasso - R WY - Bribe For: $31,350 - Against: $27,500

Max Baucus - D MT - Bribe for: $123,803 - Against: $55,980

Evan Bayh - D IN - Bribe For: $45,200 - Against: 8,250

Mark Begich - D AK - Bribe For: $23,050 - Against: $2,000

Michael Bennet - D CO - Bribe For: $38,509 - Against: $22,050

Robert Bennett - R UT - Bribe For: $105,530 - Against: $10,000

Jeff Bingaman - D NM - Bribe For: $31,498 - Against: $8,450

Christopher Bond - R MO - Bribe For: $49,550 - Against: $5,200

Barbara Boxer - D CA - Bribe For: $120,000 - Against: $13,650

Sherrod Brown - D OH - Bribe For: $57,800 - Against: $6,600

Samuel Brownback - R KS - Bribe For: $20,950 - Against: $13,500

Jim Bunning - R KY - Brobe For: $20,700 - Against: $2,000

Richard Burr - R NC - Bribe For: $328,086 - Against: $32,292

Roland Burris - D IL - Bribe For: $0 - Against: $0

Maria Cantwell - D WA - Bribe For: $93,541 - Against: $2,750

Benjamin Cardin - D MD - Bribe For: $72,200 - Against: $0

Thomas Carper - D DE - Bribe For: $83,150 - Against: $0

Robert Casey - D PA - Bribe For: $80,576 - Against: $4,600

Saxby Chambliss - R GA - Bribe For: $557,694 - Against: $108,041

Thomas Coburn R OK - Bribe For: $64,400 - Against: $14,200

Thad Cochran - R MS - Bribe For: $50,144 - Against: $22,000

Susan Collins - R ME - Bribe For: $157,438 - Against: $7,800

Kent Conrad - D ND - Bribe For: $41,650 - Against: $29,612

Bob Corker - R TN - Bribe For: $298,639 - Against: $8,850

John Cornyn - R TX - Bribe For: $286,648 - Against: $254,730

Michael Crapo - R ID - Bribe For: $64,199 - Against: $14,350

Jim DeMint - R SC - Bribe For: $149,935 - Against: $5,000

Christopher Dodd - D CT - Bribe For: $36,400 - Against: $4,500

Byron Dorgan - D ND - Bribe For: $28,200 - Against: $6,000

Richard Durbin - D IL - Bribe For: $151,050 - Against: $19,000

John Ensign - R NV - Bribe For: $76,297 - Against: $10,500

Michael Enzi - R WY - Bribe For: $87,394 - Against: $21,450

Russell Feingold - D WI - Bribe For: $53,854 - Against: $2,200

Dianne Feinstein - D CA - Bribe For: $168,189 - Against: 25,314

Kirsten Gillibrand - D NY - Bribe For: $98,210 - Against: $10,650

Lindsey Graham - R SC - Bribe For: $101,272 - Against: $5,700

Charles Grassley - R IA - Bribe For: $112,150 - Against: $25,500

Judd Gregg - R NH - Bribe For: $26,000 - Against: $0

Kay Hagan - D NC - Bribe For: $36,250 - Against: $3,500

Thomas Harkin - D IA - Bribe For: $138,135 - Against: $40,600

Orrin Hatch - R UT - Bribe For: $102,215 - Against: $11,600

Kay Hutchison - R TX - Bribe For: $127,811 - Against: $103,386

James Inhofe - R OK - Bribe For: $66,744 - Against: $36,430

Daniel Inouye - D HI - Bribe For: $26,350 - Against: $11,200

John Isakson - R GA - Bribe For: $280,995 - Against: $10,100

Mike Johanns - R NE - Bribe For: $159,259 - Against: $59,785

Tim Johnson - D SD - Bribe For: $26,850 - Against: $15,000

Edward Kaufman - D DE - Bribe For: $0 - Against: $0

John Kerry - D MA - Bribe For: $14,406 - Against: $250

Amy Klobuchar - D MN - Bribe For: $149,778 - Against: $16,250

Herbert Kohl - D WI - Bribe For: $300 - Against: $0

Jon Kyl - R AZ - Bribe For: $363,660 - Against: $58,906

Mary Landrieu - D LA - Bribe For: $73,622 - Against: $2,250

Frank Lautenberg - D NJ - Bribe For: $37,883 - Agqinst: $3,550

Patrick Leahy - D VT - Bribe For: $13,800 - Against: $2,750

Carl Levin - D MI - Bribe For: $49,900 - Against: $2,000

Joseph Lieberman - I CT - Bribe For: $121,075 - Against: $0

Blanche Lincoln - D AR - Bribe For: $347,526 - Against: $125,297

Richard Lugar - R IN - Bribe For: $153,579 - Against: $21,000

John McCain - R AZ - Bribe For: $118,070 - Against: $21,525

Claire McCaskill - D MO - Bribe For: $48,950 - Against: $7,650

Mitch McConnell - R KY - Bribe For: $439,593 - Against: $42,244

Robert Menéndez - D NJ - Bribe For: $183,850 - Against: $250

Jeff Merkley - D OR - Bribe For: $27,350 - Against; $3,300

Barbara Mikulski - D MD - Bribe For: $52,165 - Against: $1,000

Lisa Murkowski - R AK - Bribe For: $164,713 - Against: $5,800

Patty Murray - D WA - Bribe For: $136,500 - Against: $3,150

Ben Nelson - D NE - Bribe For: $254,906 - Against: $44,950

Bill Nelson - D FL - Bribe For: $205,471 - Against: $35,748

Mark Pryor - D AR - Bribe For: $115,550 - Against: $16,565

John Reed - D RI - Bribe For: $29,350 - Against: $0

Harry Reid - D NV - Bribe For: $133,985 - Against: $10,000

James Risch - R ID - Bribe For: $56,750 - Against; $36,050

Pat Roberts - R KS - Bribe For: $167,294 - Against: $65,186

John Rockefeller - D WV - Bribe For: $21,250 - Against: $1,000

Bernard Sanders - I VT - Bribe For: $7,800 - Against: $4,200

Charles Schumer - D NY - Bribe For: $175,185 - Against: $14,200

Jefferson Sessions - R AL - Bribe For: $65,303 - Against: $16,800

Jeanne Shaheen - D NH - Bribe For: $17,090 - Against: $7,300

Richard Shelby - R AL - Bribe For: $73,616 - Against: $10,000

Olympia Snowe - R ME - Bribe For: $78,136 - Against: $2,000

Arlen Specter - D PA - Bribe For: $209,124 - Against: $9,400

Debbie Ann Stabenow - D MI - Bribe For: $84,941 - Against: $14,482

Jon Tester - D MT - Bribe For: $21,250 - Against: $61,550

John Thune - R SD - Bribe For: $218,900 - Against: $55,625

Mark Udall - D CO - Bribe For: $34,435 - Against: $45,050

Tom Udall - D NM - Bribe For: $27,102 - Against: $51,900

David Vitter - R LA - Bribe For: $188,225 - Against: $8,500

George Voinovich - R OH - Bribe For: $103,850 - Against: $185

Mark Warner - D VA - Bribe For: $116,450 - Against: $8,600

Jim Webb - D VA - Bribe For: $25,300 - Against: $7,700

Sheldon Whitehouse- D RI - Bribe For: $27,025 - Against: $1,500

Roger Wicker - R MS - Bribe For: $147,650 - Against: $16,250

Ron Wyden - D OR - Bribe For: $58,700 - Against: $4,900

Here's a list of the Special Interest Groups that support S.510 and how much they bribed (I mean donated) to Senators:

Restaurants & drinking establishments $3,217,767
Food and kindred products manufacturing $1,753,503
Milk & dairy producers $1,717,687
Food stores $1,473,532
Beverages (non-alcoholic) $744,551
Vegetables, fruits and tree nut $709,238
Veterinarians $551,750
Beverage bottling & distribution $289,725
Food wholesalers $284,900
Food & Beverage Products and Services $281,137
Fishing $277,984
Chambers of commerce $219,234
Manufacturing $207,740
Food catering & food services $171,835
Confectionery processors & manufacturers $96,438
Consumer groups $6,100
Farm bureaus $0

Here's a list of Here's a list of the Special Interest Groups that sopposed S.510 and how much they bribed (I mean donated) to Senators:


Milk & dairy producers $1,717,687
Livestock $1,561,207
Farm organizations & cooperatives $412,976
Consumer groups $6,100
Farmers, crop unspecified $0

I wonder how the Senators will Vote when the bill reaches the floor of the Senate?

[1776Rebirth]

The Senate will not be voting on S510 - "Food Safety Reform Act" until after Thanksgiving, so there is time to get this petition faxed in to your Senator's offices

PLEASE share this link out if you like having a choice in where your food comes from.

http://www.revisit1776.com/S510-petition.htm

People, this is MUCH more important than the TSA crap...

[citizenx]

People, this is MUCH more important than the TSA crap...

Wrong, unless you think every man, woman, and child in America should be forcibly felt up for their own good -- but good try at instigating senseless in-fighting.

Equally important  (Yes, it is possible -- for those of us that can walk and chew bubble gum at the same time.)

Hey, do you walk to schol or carry a lunch?

[independentWV]

NEWS RELEASE
BEAST SURVIVES, BUT LESS UNPLEASANT
By Lee Bechtel, NHF Lobbyist

November 20, 2010

Received via email

            The NHF first wants to thank all of those who signed our petition in opposition to S.510, and those who called their U.S. Senator's offices in a sustained effort to defeat the legislation.  Unfortunately, the vote to end debate – the Cloture vote – was successful on a vote of 74 For and 25 Opposed, on November 17th.  Thirty hours of debate followed and included behind-the-scenes negotiations on a final Manager's Amendment to S.510.

           On November 18th, the only Senator holding up the bill was Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), who wanted a vote on an amendment dealing with Congressional earmarks.  The Senate proceeded to vote on a Motion to Proceed on votes on amendments after more hours of post-cloture debate.  The Motion to Proceed vote passed on a vote of 57 For and 27 Opposed, after holding the vote time open longer than what the rules allow.  Senators Testor and Hagan both voted in favor of the Motion.

           During the debate, Senator Harkin described some of the key points in the yet-to-be-voted-on Manager's Amendment.  Among other changes, the final Manager's Amendment included the exemption for dietary supplements from Codex food guidelines, exemption language for dietary supplement manufacturers and retailers from the conventional food company and distributor registration fees, reporting and product traceability requirements. The final Manager's Amendment also included the Testor-Hagan amendment exempting small farmers and retailers; organic farmers were already exempted from FDA registration fee, reporting, and product traceability requirements, for farms with less than $500,000 in gross receipts.  The compromise language was very close to the original Testor amendment, which is why Senators Testor and Hagan both voted in favor of moving the bill forward.

          Then, on Friday, November 19th, Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that agreement had been reached on the order of final amendments and votes on S.510, which are now scheduled for Monday, November 29th, after the Thanksgiving recess.  There will be a second cloture vote on the motion to proceed, followed by debate and votes on two amendments to be offered by Senator Coburn.  These are to be followed by debate and a vote on the Manager's Amendment to the original S.510 bill, and if successful, the vote on final bill passage.

         As explained by Senator Harkin, he and Senators Reid and Durbin had worked out an agreement in advance of Senate passage with House Democratic leadership to accept the Senate-passed bill, hold it at the House desk, and then vote on passage of the Senate bill.  This procedural maneuvering eliminates the usual joint Senate-House conference committee to work out differences with the Waxman and House passed Food Safety bill, H.R. 2749.  If the House approves, the final version of the Senate Food Safety bill would then be sent to President Obama for signing into new law.

         The NHF has been lobbying against S.510 and many thousands of health-freedom advocates have participated in sending grassroots lobbying appeals, since last year.  The beast will most likely be restrained, but the fight against it will still go on.  S.510 authorizes, but does not appropriate, monies for the FDA-expanded regulation of domestic and imported conventional food producers, distributors, and retailers, and the hiring of more FDA bureaucrats.  Registration fees and other fees will not be enough to cover its costs.  The FDA's current budget is $4 billion dollars.

         The new spending called for in the bill will have to be approved by Congress next year in the FDA-appropriation process, first by the House and then by the Senate.  All spending bills must originate in the to be controlled Republican House. This gives the NHF and other health-freedom groups and advocates opportunities to de-fund this otherwise bad law, even if it is approved by the Senate next week, and enacted into new law.  To carry out all of the new rules and FDA authorities, new spending will have to be approved, or current spending levels for other FDA programs or regulatory activities will have to be reduced.  The beast can be starved in the future even if not defeated outright the first time around.

         NHF will keep you informed.

 

[carlee]

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_29693.php

[independentWV]

Thanks for information, will be sure to let support Senators know we are aware.

[donnay]

Thanks, IndependentWV!

We have to keep our wits about us now.  They are coming at us from all directions!