Food safety legislation sponsored by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., would give the Food and Drug Administration sweeping new powers, and thus has spurred fierce opposition from small farmers and local produce advocates, while big food producers support the measure. Coburn has expressed concerns about burdens on small business and the bill's cost to taxpayers. He's also argued that the bill multiplies regulatory redundancies and complexity, thus harming effective enforcement.
The House passed a similar bill last year, and if the Senate doesn't pass a bill this year, the process would have to start over again.
The Democratic leadership's line -- swallowed whole by much of the media -- is that the Senate could easily pass this bill, but Coburn, a notorious gadfly, is holding it up.
"We thought we finally had it worked out," Reid said on the Senate floor. "We could take care of this, but Senator Coburn has said no."
2 comments:
Does anyone listen to Reid and Pelosi?
Every time they say something in public it is a rediculous lie!
Keep up the fight Tom! Obstruct to the bitter end. There are already tens of thousands of pages of regulations on the books now. We do not need any more rules and regulations than we already have. The only change that needs to be made is to repeal about 90% of the regulations we do have.
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