Your ACTION IS NEEDED:
Please COPY and FORWARD to Senator Hagan @ this link:
http://hagan.senate.gov/contact/
and Senator Burr @ http://burr.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
This Bill, SB 436 MUST be stopped
November 29, 2011
Senator Kay Hagan
521 Dirksen Senate Off. Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Senator Hagan:
Let us be very clear on SB 436. IF YOU SUPPORT THIS BILL YOU WILL NEVER AGAIN HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE. Let us repeat this: ‘If you support this bill you will NEVER again hold public office.
We will put time, effort and money into making your defeat possible. THERE IS NO COMPROMISE!!
In the latest attempt to gut the Second Amendment and separate Americans from their guns, the Senate Judiciary Committee this week began hearings on Rep. Chuck Schumer's S.B. 436 – the so-called "Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011." Rep. Chuck Schumer and his Second Amendment-hating cohorts are billing the legislation as a means to fix the much ballyhooed and completely fallacious "gun show loophole" of federal gun control we have been hearing about for years. But what this bill actually aims at, and does, is end ALL private gun sales and transfers – not just at gun shows but everywhere in America. STOP S.B. 436
–First, the bill requires all gun buyers to get a "permit." Next, the buyer must undergo a federal background check and seek the FBI's permission to purchase the gun. This also applies to ANY firearm transfer, so in essence a gun can no longer be gifted or inherited without government approval. In fact, according to section 202 (g) 6, one will not even be allowed to use a friend's gun for hunting unless one first applies for a permit.
LEAVE OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS ALONE! – STOP S.B. 436
Just as outrageous is Section 124 of the bill, which requires any institution of higher learning to perform "mental health assessments" and develop treatment plans for ALL students, the results of which would be submitted to a federal database. With this bill, Chuck Schumer has managed to decimate the Second and the Fourth Amendments in one fell swoop. Such outlandish gun control measures are designed to progressively limit citizen access to the very means given us to protect our freedom.
SENATE BILL 436 MUST BE STOPPED.
Louis Call
307 N. Carolina Dr.
New Bern, NC 28562
CCTA (Coastal Carolina Taxpayers Association)
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Friday, November 19, 2010
Food Safety Modernization Act (S 510)
The Lame-Duck Congress is Acting at Break-Neck Speed on Several Bills But Not on Taxes and the Current Fiscal Year Appropriations Bill
On Nov 18, 2010, the Senate approved a motion to proceed on the consideration of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Senator Burr voted against it and Senator Hagan voted for it. The Senate may vote today, Nov 19, 2010, on this legislation a version of which passed in the House on July 30, 2009. Although Senator Burr is a co-sponsor of the bill, according to a staffer in his office Senator Burr did not support the legislation in its original form. Senator Burr believes as a co-sponsor he can help direct and shape the final product because he wants to protect small farmers and small businesses. On the surface, the food safety bill may sound as if it is consumer friendly, protecting us from disease such as salmonella, E. coli etc. However, opponents such as the editor of Natural News has called the bill "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America."
It grants the government new power of the "public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods." The new regulations require detailed records and a $500 annual fee for any farmer producing food items, including those selling to restaurants and Farmer's Markets.
Senators Tester (D-MT) and Hagan (D-NC) have crafted an amendment to the food safety bill that they say will protect small farmers from federal regulations. Under the amendment, "small producers will continue to be regulated at the state and local level." The amendment applies to "small producers who sell most of their food directly to consumers, local restaurants and retailers within a 275 mile radius," and that earn $500,000 or less annually, according to Senator Hagan's website. (The Wall Street Journal is reporting 400 miles as opposed to 275 miles for producers selling food products.)
The bill gives the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) more power to regulate food producers, giving them recall authority and massively increasing regulations and fees etc. (Remember when the FDA recalled tomatoes citing a NC producer when it was actually a Mexican producer?)
The National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association has stated: "S-510 will have the unintended destructive consequence of eliminating small farms and consumer access to local food. The main threats to food safety--by the government's own admission--are centralzed production, centralized processing and long distance transportation. The food safety bill will increase these risk factors by further consolidating agriculture into fewer, larger industrial farms through enormous regulatory burdens that small farms cannot endure. Small farms and farmers markets are an important economic engine, environmental safeguard and national security asset."
The National Coalition of Sustainable Agriculture supports the bill with the Tester-Hagan amendment and the Managers Amendment that "provides for a USDA-delivered competitive grants program for food safety training for farmers, small processors and wholesalers , provides more flexibility to minimize the burden of compliance with regulations, minimizes the number of standards, provides exemptions for low/no risk farms, removes certain wildlife-threatening enforcement, and reduces record keeping/traceability requirements for small farms." They do not support the House version.
Total cost of the bill starts at $3.4 billion (not including implementation costs), according to the Congressional Budget Office.
If the legislation passes in the Senate it will require House approval since the House bill, sponsored by Rep. Waxman (D-CA), was a different version of the bill.
If you are passionate about this bill: Call Senators and Representatives and ask them to vote "No" on the "Food Safety Modernization Act."
Senator Burr (202) 224-3154; Senator Hagan (202) 224-6342
Representatives: G.K. Butterfield (D- 1st) (202) 225-3101; Bob Etheridge (D-2nd) (202) 225-4531;
Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-3rd)(202) 225-3415: David E. Price (D-4th)(202) 225-1784
Virginia Foxx (R-5th)(202) 225-2071; Howard Coble (R-6th)(202) 225-3065;
Mike McIntyre (D-7th)(202) 225-2731; Larry Kissell (D-8th)(202) 225-3715;
Sue Myrick (R-9th)(202) 225-1976; Patrick T. McHenry (R-10th)(202) 225-2576
Health Shuler (D-11th)(202) 225-6401; Melvin L. Watt (D-12th)(202) 225-1510;
Brad Miller (D-13th)(202) 225-3032.
On Nov 18, 2010, the Senate approved a motion to proceed on the consideration of the Food Safety Modernization Act. Senator Burr voted against it and Senator Hagan voted for it. The Senate may vote today, Nov 19, 2010, on this legislation a version of which passed in the House on July 30, 2009. Although Senator Burr is a co-sponsor of the bill, according to a staffer in his office Senator Burr did not support the legislation in its original form. Senator Burr believes as a co-sponsor he can help direct and shape the final product because he wants to protect small farmers and small businesses. On the surface, the food safety bill may sound as if it is consumer friendly, protecting us from disease such as salmonella, E. coli etc. However, opponents such as the editor of Natural News has called the bill "the most dangerous bill in the history of the United States of America."
It grants the government new power of the "public's right to grow, trade and transport any foods." The new regulations require detailed records and a $500 annual fee for any farmer producing food items, including those selling to restaurants and Farmer's Markets.
Senators Tester (D-MT) and Hagan (D-NC) have crafted an amendment to the food safety bill that they say will protect small farmers from federal regulations. Under the amendment, "small producers will continue to be regulated at the state and local level." The amendment applies to "small producers who sell most of their food directly to consumers, local restaurants and retailers within a 275 mile radius," and that earn $500,000 or less annually, according to Senator Hagan's website. (The Wall Street Journal is reporting 400 miles as opposed to 275 miles for producers selling food products.)
The bill gives the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) more power to regulate food producers, giving them recall authority and massively increasing regulations and fees etc. (Remember when the FDA recalled tomatoes citing a NC producer when it was actually a Mexican producer?)
The National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association has stated: "S-510 will have the unintended destructive consequence of eliminating small farms and consumer access to local food. The main threats to food safety--by the government's own admission--are centralzed production, centralized processing and long distance transportation. The food safety bill will increase these risk factors by further consolidating agriculture into fewer, larger industrial farms through enormous regulatory burdens that small farms cannot endure. Small farms and farmers markets are an important economic engine, environmental safeguard and national security asset."
The National Coalition of Sustainable Agriculture supports the bill with the Tester-Hagan amendment and the Managers Amendment that "provides for a USDA-delivered competitive grants program for food safety training for farmers, small processors and wholesalers , provides more flexibility to minimize the burden of compliance with regulations, minimizes the number of standards, provides exemptions for low/no risk farms, removes certain wildlife-threatening enforcement, and reduces record keeping/traceability requirements for small farms." They do not support the House version.
Total cost of the bill starts at $3.4 billion (not including implementation costs), according to the Congressional Budget Office.
If the legislation passes in the Senate it will require House approval since the House bill, sponsored by Rep. Waxman (D-CA), was a different version of the bill.
If you are passionate about this bill: Call Senators and Representatives and ask them to vote "No" on the "Food Safety Modernization Act."
Senator Burr (202) 224-3154; Senator Hagan (202) 224-6342
Representatives: G.K. Butterfield (D- 1st) (202) 225-3101; Bob Etheridge (D-2nd) (202) 225-4531;
Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-3rd)(202) 225-3415: David E. Price (D-4th)(202) 225-1784
Virginia Foxx (R-5th)(202) 225-2071; Howard Coble (R-6th)(202) 225-3065;
Mike McIntyre (D-7th)(202) 225-2731; Larry Kissell (D-8th)(202) 225-3715;
Sue Myrick (R-9th)(202) 225-1976; Patrick T. McHenry (R-10th)(202) 225-2576
Health Shuler (D-11th)(202) 225-6401; Melvin L. Watt (D-12th)(202) 225-1510;
Brad Miller (D-13th)(202) 225-3032.
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