[Editor's Note: For those of you old enough to know who Don Ameche was, his last movie was titled: "Things Change." He played the role of an old Italian shoe maker who the Mafia thought they could use and set up to take a hit for them, when, unexpectedly, the whole thing unraveled and fortunes became reversed because the old man was simply too honest and honorable for the universe to allow it to happen. I can't think of a more appropriate analogy to what has happened here. The first comment posted below the article says it all...Ken Adachi]

From The Alliance for Natural Health
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/foodsafetys510billinjeopardy01dec10.shtml
December 1, 2010

Stunning Development! S-510 May Be Dead; Unconstitutional Provision Cited (Dec. 2, 2010)

http://www.anh-usa.org/good-news-food-safety-bill-suddenly-on-life-support/

Original title: Good News—Food Safety Bill Suddenly on Life Support!

The Senate’s controversial FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) now appears to be dead in the water.

As we reported to you yesterday, the Senate passed its version of the Food Safety bill by a margin of 73 to 25, and sent it on to the House of Representatives for approval. Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) had previously agreed to accept the Senate’s bill in place of the House’s version, already approved, so this approval was expected to be pro-forma.

But it turns out that Section 107 of the Senate bill contains a revenue-raising (i.e., taxing) provision. And such a provision is unconstitutional: “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives,” according to Article I, Section 7, of the Constitution. Because the Senate violated the funding origination clause, the House has implemented a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, keeping it out of consideration and sending it back to the Senate.

The only possible “quick fix” would be a unanimous consent agreement in the Senate to strike that revenue-raising provision from the bill—but Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has already stated that he will oppose, so unanimity will be impossible. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now faced with some tough choices: spend a huge amount of time all over again to deal with this (which is unlikely in a Lame Duck Congress, especially considering how controversial the bill is); or do nothing, and allow the bill to die at the end of this Congress. This will mean a new Food Safety Bill will be introduced next year—but next year’s Congress will be very different from the current one, so we expect that the bill will look very different, and could be much more favorable to the natural health community.

As always, we will keep you posted on any new developments.

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Comments

2 Responses to “Good News—Food Safety Bill Suddenly on Life Support!”

1. Nayanika says:
December 1, 2010

Vow this is indeed providential.
We are in great times when unforeseen hands take a decisive role and totally leave us agape. I might be told I am talking out of turn, but the tenor and the fine line which was very akin to a gut reaction on reading this write up , was that the bill is surely dead in the water. There is no way it will see the light of day before the next tabling, which gives ample room for many developments.

From the kind of unravelling of wrong doings that have been mushrooming all over the world, I would not be surprised if this will be done, meriting justice the way it should, since there will be far greater irons in the fire, for this to take centre stage.

We need to be with natural love within the confines of the home and unconditional love to all of the external with the bondages being made with a fine thread sourcing from an awareness of non physical reality. This alone will give us a broader and a sensory perspective which will truly enable us to draw and make correct inferences for the polity and their correct governance

This is in total adherence to the Rights of the people together with a transparency and accountability worthy of a Nation of status , USA.

Thank you.

2. Akasha says:
December 1, 2010

Yay!!! Best news I’ve heard all week!

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