In Sunday-evening surprise, Senate unanimously passes food safety bill

GOP Abandons Tea Party: In Sunday Night Surprise, Senate Unanimously Passes Food Safety Bill
The Hill: The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not originate in the House — Senate staff had failed to substitute the Food Safety language into a House-originated bi...

Late Night Senate Sinister Shenanigans
The Hill : In Sunday-evening surprise, Senate unanimously passes Food Safety bill By Alexander Bolton - 12/19/10 07:55 PM ET The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not o...

In Sunday Evening Surprise, Senate Unanimously Passes S.510 Food Safety Bill
WTF? The Repubs agreed to pass this POS by unanimous consent??? (The Hill) — The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error.  The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not originate in the House — Senate s...

Senate Passes Food Safety Bill -- Again
Monday, December 20, 2010 By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press Washington (AP) - The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. It was the second time the Senate passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The chamber passed the bill for the first time three weeks ago, but it was caught in a const...

In Sunday-evening Surprise, Senate Unanimously Passes Food Safety Bill
In Sunday-evening surprise, Senate unanimously passes Food Safety bill The Hill The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-raising measure that did not originate in the House — Senate staff had fa...

Senate passes food safety bill, again
(12-19) 20:12 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. It was the second time the Senate passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The chamber passed the bill for the first time three weeks ago, but it was caught in a constitutional snag when senators mistakenly included t...

Senate passes food safety billagain
The Senate on Sunday passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. It was the second time the Senate passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The chamber passed the bill for the first time three weeks ago, but it was caught in a constitutional snag when senators mistakenly included tax provisions that are by law supposed t...

Sunday Night Surprise US Senate UNANIMOUSLY Passes the Food Safety Bill
Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans UNANIMOUSLY agreed tonight to give the government more power over the Food Industry. Are you freaking kidding me? The Senate unexpectedly approved Food Safety Legislation by unanimous consent Sunday evening, rescuing a bill that floated in limbo for weeks because of a clerical error. The Senate passed the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Nov. 30 by a vote of 73-25. But the bill was later invalidated by a technical objection because it was a revenue-ra...

Food Safety Bill Survives
Mon Dec. 20, 2010 9:10 AM PST In an unanticipated turn of events, the Senate managed to pass the Food Safety and Modernization Act on Sunday with Bipartisan support. The bill puts stricter safety standards on imported food, and requires larger producers to follow tougher rules. It also introduces provisions designed to prevent outbreaks of diseases like E.coli and Salmonella. "Families in Nevada and across America should never have to worry about whether the food they put on their table is...

Senate OKs food safety measure
The Senate on Sunday night cleared a Food Safety package, curbing earlier fears the popular bill would die by the end of this session as a result of a procedural error by upper chamber lawmakers. Aides close to the bill expect it to return to the House this week and that the overhaul of a nearly-century-old regulatory system finally will find its way to the president's desk after a circuitous and frustrating go-around the Capitol. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 The Senate ...

Food-safety measure passes Senate in Sunday surprise
A bill that would overhaul the nation's food-safety laws for the first time since the Great Depression came roaring back to life Sunday as Senate Democrats struck a deal with Republicans that helped overcome a technical mistake made three weeks ago and a Filibuster threat that seemed likely to scuttle the Legislation. After a weekend of negotiations, tense strategy sessions and several premature predictions about the bill's demise, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) reached a deal ...

Food-Safety Bill Clears Senate in Wake of Massive Food Recalls
After a year of dozens of dangerous-food incidents, including a single outbreak of Salmonella that led to the recall of more than half a billion eggs, the Senate passed a food-safety bill Sunday night by a unanimous voice vote. The bill will overhaul food-safety standards in the United States for the first time since 1938. In addition to adding 2,000 new food-safety inspectors, it will give the Food and Drug Administration the power for the first time to force a mandatory recall of tainted foods...

Back from the Dead: Food Safety Bill Passes Senate in Unexpected Last-Minute Move
ABC News’ Matthew Jaffe reports: In an unexpected move, the Senate today passed a sweeping Food Safety bill by unanimous consent, sending the bill back for a vote in the House before it will move on to President Obama’s desk. “Very very important for our country,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this evening on the Senate floor. “Perfect Legislation? No. But a broad broad step in the right direction. We haven’t done anything in this regard for more than a hund

Senate passes food-safety bill
A bill that would overhaul the nation's food-safety laws for the first time since the Great Depression came roaring back to life Sunday as Senate Democrats struck a deal with Republicans that helped overcome a technical mistake made three weeks ago and a Filibuster threat that seemed likely to scuttle the Legislation. After a weekend of negotiations, tense strategy sessions and several premature predictions about the bill's demise, Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) reached a deal ...

Food Safety Bill Gets New Life
ABC News reports: In an unexpected move, the Senate today passed a sweeping Food Safety bill by unanimous consent, sending the bill back for a vote in the House before it will move on to President Obama’s desk. “Very very important for our country,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this evening on the Senate floor. “Perfect Legislation? No. But a broad broad step in the right direction. We haven’t done anything in this regard for more than a hundred years for our countr

Food Safety Bill dies on the vine thanks to Harrys incompetence
You take a win where you can get one! When Harry Reid pulled the plug on the omnibus spending bill Thursday night, he also ended his best hope of fixing a monumental blunder committed earlier in the lame-duck session.  Senate Democrats bragged that they had passed a far-reaching food-safety bill opposed by Conservatives for its overreach and regulatory expansion, until their counterparts in the House pronounced it dead on arrival for its Unconstitutional creation of new tax policy....

Looks Like Republicans Got Clean CR Bill By Trading Food Bill
Sunday night the Senate passed the Food Safety bill that had been determined to be dead and from the headlines this morning it is beginning to look like Republicans traded their opposition to the Food Safety bill for a clean Continuing Resolution bill to keep government running until March. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky tells CNN's "State of the Union" that he and Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada have a deal on the measure. The Budget year began Oct. 1 but Congress hasn't p...

Senate passes food-safety bill by unanimous consent
Chalk one up for the Senate Republicans in the category of “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.”  They had Harry Reid on the hook for fouling up a food-safety bill that the Wall Street Journal called a bonanza for big producers.  Instead of forcing the issue to wait for a new Congress and an approach that didn’t impose new costs and regulatory burdens that puts small producers at a disadvantage, the GOP agreed to allow the bill to pass through the Senate last night w...

No end game on Hill as Christmas nears
There’s still no clear end game in sight as Democrats struggle to close out the Lame Duck session of Congress in time for Christmas. The START Treaty is in limbo, the continuing resolution funding the government is still lingering, a 9/11 First Responders bill is still on the table and a Food Safety measure is still awaiting a final vote in the final days of the Democratic majority. In fact, some House aides are not ruling out the possibility of a post-Christmas session to finish the 9/...

Senate passes food safety bill, again
The Senate has passed a sweeping bill to make food safer, sending it to the House in the waning days of Congress. This is the second time the Senate has passed the bill, which would give the government broad new powers to increase inspections of food processing facilities and force companies to recall tainted food. The chamber passed the bill for the first time three weeks ago, but it was caught in a constitutional snag when senators mistakenly included tax provisions that are by law supposed to...

Senate OKs food safety bill
Published: Dec. 19, 2010 at 10:07 PM WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Food-safety reform Legislation, thought to be all but dead this session, was resurrected in the U.S. Senate Sunday night, passed and sent to the House. "This reaffirmed my faith in Democracy," The Washington Post quoted Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, as saying following the legislation's passage by unanimous consent. "We were getting ready for a last-ditch effort ... and they just went ahead...

Senate passes shark protection bill
The Senate passed a landmark shark conservation bill Monday that would close Loopholes that had allowed the lucrative shark fin trade to continue operations off the West Coast. The measure would require any vessel to land sharks with their fins attached and would prevent non-fishing vessels from transporting fins without their carcasses. The practice of cutting off a shark's fins and dumping its body overboard, which is now banned off the Atlantic Coast and the Gulf of Mexico but not the Paci...

GOP Shows Lack of Resolve to Be Dicks
In the first nice, decent thing the Republicans have done in living memory, they passed the Food Safety Bill even though they could have used an administrative error to kill it. All spending bills must originate in the House. We abide by this Constitutional requirement not by honoring its intent but by finding a way to make it technically true. So, for example, congressional leaders will take a House Bill that isn't going anywhere and then pass an amendment to delete everything in that bill and...

Top ten lies about Senate Bill 510
Your email Privacy is 100% protected. (NaturalNews) The Food Safety Modernization Act looks like it's headed to become law. It's being hailed as a "breakthrough" achievement in food safety, and it would hand vast new powers and funding to the FDA so that it can clean up the food supply and protect all Americans from food-borne pathogens. There's just one problem with all this: It's all a big lie. Here's a whopper the Mainstream Media won't dare report: Out of the 1,809 people who die in America ...

Food Safety Bill Went Down with Omnibus
Sometimes the incompetence of the Democrats is a good thing. The dreaded Food Safety bill went down with the Omnibus Bill. After Harry Reid screwed up, he thought he’d sneak the unpopular bill into the Omnibus bill the Democrats hoped to ram down our throats while they still have the numbers. That didn’t work out so well for old Harry. Politico reported: A sweeping Food Safety measure heralded as a rare Senate victory just a few weeks ago looks like it might fall to the cutting roo...