From Ken Adachi, Editor
http://educate-yourself.org/cn/votedowns510bill18nov10.shtml
November 18, 2010

Act Today! Fax Your Senator to Vote "No" on S510, Food 'Safety' Bill (Nov. 18, 2010)

I just checked on the status of Senate bill S 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, and found that on November 17, 2010, the US Senate voted 74 in favor and 24 against cloture of this bill. That means that the time allowed for debating the bill is severely limited, making it impossible to filibuster the bill and prevent it from going to a vote. Obviously, those who voted against cloture are more interested in seeing the bill debated, while the 74 senators who voted in favor of cloture, are more interested in seeing the bill go to a vote with a minimum of discussion or no discussion. The senators for voted Yea or Nay are listed further below.

I can't remember a bill which has proven to be less popular and undesired by the American people than S-510, yet it's apparently still being supported by a large majority of US senators. The 74 senators who voted in favor of cloture will likely be the same senators who will vote in favor of passing the bill and it it these senators to whom you should most strongly direct your Faxes and express your desire for a "no" vote on S-510

Track the progress of bill S-510
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=related

The senatorial rats who sponsored this outrageous assault on our constitutional freedoms:

Sen. Richard Durbin [D-IL]

Cosponsors:
Lamar Alexander [R-TN]
Jeff Bingaman [D-NM]
Richard Burr [R-NC]
Roland Burris [D-IL]
Robert Casey [D-PA]
Saxby Chambliss [R-GA]
Christopher Dodd [D-CT]
Michael Enzi [R-WY]
Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Judd Gregg [R-NH]
Thomas Harkin [D-IA]
Orrin Hatch [R-UT]
John Isakson [R-GA]
Edward Kaufman [D-DE]
Edward Kennedy [D-MA]
Amy Klobuchar [D-MN]
Robert Menéndez [D-NJ]
Ben Nelson [D-NE]
Tom Udall [D-NM]
David Vitter [R-LA]

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Role call vote on cloture for Senate bill S-510 (passed 74 to 24 on Nov. 17, 2010)

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s2010-250

Alabama
Nay AL Sessions, Jefferson [R]
Nay AL Shelby, Richard [R]
Alaska
Yea AK Begich, Mark [D]
Not Voting AK Murkowski, Lisa [R]
Arizona
Nay AZ Kyl, Jon [R]
Nay AZ McCain, John [R]
Arkansas
Yea AR Lincoln, Blanche [D]
Yea AR Pryor, Mark [D]
California
Yea CA Boxer, Barbara [D]
Yea CA Feinstein, Dianne [D]
Colorado
Yea CO Bennet, Michael [D]
Yea CO Udall, Mark [D]
Connecticut
Yea CT Dodd, Christopher [D]
Yea CT Lieberman, Joseph [I]
Delaware
Yea DE Carper, Thomas [D]
Florida
Yea FL LeMieux, George [R]
Yea FL Nelson, Bill [D]
Georgia
Nay GA Chambliss, Saxby [R]
Nay GA Isakson, John [R]
Hawaii
Yea HI Akaka, Daniel [D]
Yea HI Inouye, Daniel [D]
Idaho
Nay ID Crapo, Michael [R]
Nay ID Risch, James [R]
Illinois
Yea IL Burris, Roland [D]
Yea IL Durbin, Richard [D]
Indiana
Yea IN Bayh, Evan [D]
Yea IN Lugar, Richard [R]
Iowa
Yea IA Grassley, Charles [R]
Yea IA Harkin, Thomas [D]
Kansas
Nay KS Brownback, Samuel [R]
Nay KS Roberts, Pat [R]
Kentucky
Nay KY Bunning, Jim [R]
Nay KY McConnell, Mitch [R]
Louisiana
Yea LA Landrieu, Mary [D]
Yea LA Vitter, David [R]
Maine
Yea ME Collins, Susan [R]
Yea ME Snowe, Olympia [R]
Maryland
Yea MD Cardin, Benjamin [D]
Yea MD Mikulski, Barbara [D]
Massachusetts
Yea MA Brown, Scott [R]
Yea MA Kerry, John [D]
Michigan
Yea MI Levin, Carl [D]
Yea MI Stabenow, Debbie Ann [D]
Minnesota
Yea MN Franken, Al [D]
Yea MN Klobuchar, Amy [D]
Mississippi
Nay MS Cochran, Thad [R]
Nay MS Wicker, Roger [R]
Missouri
Nay MO Bond, Christopher [R]
Yea MO McCaskill, Claire [D]
Montana
Yea MT Baucus, Max [D]
Yea MT Tester, Jon [D]
Nebraska
Yea NE Johanns, Mike [R]
Nay NE Nelson, Ben [D]
Nevada
Nay NV Ensign, John [R]
Yea NV Reid, Harry [D]
New Hampshire
Yea NH Gregg, Judd [R]
Yea NH Shaheen, Jeanne [D]
New Jersey
Yea NJ Lautenberg, Frank [D]
Yea NJ Menendez, Robert [D]
New Mexico
Yea NM Bingaman, Jeff [D]
Yea NM Udall, Tom [D]
New York
Yea NY Gillibrand, Kirsten [D]
Yea NY Schumer, Charles [D]
North Carolina
Yea NC Burr, Richard [R]
Yea NC Hagan, Kay [D]
North Dakota
Yea ND Conrad, Kent [D]
Yea ND Dorgan, Byron [D]
Ohio
Yea OH Brown, Sherrod [D]
Yea OH Voinovich, George [R]
Oklahoma
Nay OK Coburn, Thomas [R]
Nay OK Inhofe, James [R]
Oregon
Yea OR Merkley, Jeff [D]
Yea OR Wyden, Ron [D]
Pennsylvania
Yea PA Casey, Robert [D]
Yea PA Specter, Arlen [D]
Rhode Island
Yea RI Reed, John [D]
Yea RI Whitehouse, Sheldon [D]
South Carolina
Nay SC DeMint, Jim [R]
Nay SC Graham, Lindsey [R]
South Dakota
Yea SD Johnson, Tim [D]
Yea SD Thune, John [R]
Tennessee
Yea TN Alexander, Lamar [R]
Yea TN Corker, Bob [R]
Texas
Nay TX Cornyn, John [R]
Nay TX Hutchison, Kay [R]
Utah
Nay UT Bennett, Robert [R]
Nay UT Hatch, Orrin [R]
Vermont
Yea VT Leahy, Patrick [D]
Yea VT Sanders, Bernard [I]
Virginia
Yea VA Warner, Mark [D]
Yea VA Webb, Jim [D]
Washington
Yea WA Cantwell, Maria [D]
Yea WA Murray, Patty [D]
West Virginia
Yea WV Rockefeller, John [D]
Wisconsin
Yea WI Feingold, Russell [D]
Yea WI Kohl, Herbert [D]
Wyoming
Yea WY Barrasso, John [R]
Yea WY Enzi, Michael [R]
Unknown Voters
Yea Unknown Person
Yea Unknown Person

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Please tell your Senators to vote "NO" on S. 510, up for vote this week.

http://www.30bananasaday.com/forum/topics/please-tell-your-senators-to?xg_source=activity

* Posted by Banana Runner on November 17, 2010 at 4:26am in

I have an organic farmer friend and he definitely is aware of the political aspect of food and agriculture as he has been fighting for his freedom for years now. I received this email from him just a few minutes ago.

Please make your voice be heard with your state senators.

"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

The Senate is going to vote on S.510 this week.

Now is the time to contact your Senator directly [email and phone call], and also sign the petition below.

Please ask them to Vote No on S.510 !!!

S.510 the so-called "Food Safety Modernization Act", is the bill that is going to make gardening, and sharing food a crime that could cost you your property.

It will make farmer's markets illegal.

It will make the saving, or sharing of seeds illegal.

Click here to sign petition.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/p/dia/action/public/?actio...

Click here to find your Senator [ please email and call them].
http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOups0dfdwM

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

S 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, may be the most dangerous bill in the history of the US

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

2. It would end US sovereignty over its own food supply by insisting on compliance with the WTO, thus threatening national security.

3. 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

4. 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

S, 510 is hissing in the grass
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2010

S. 510, the Food Safety Modernization Act, 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 whistle blower

Please take action now !!!

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