Following some very expensive lobbying, S.510 passed a cloture vote in the U.S. Senate earlier this week. What a huge disappointment to see this bad legislation will probably be passed. The big question is: How will that bill and the considerably different H.R. 2749 (the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009) from over in the House be reconciled? Please contact your congresscritters and ask them to do their best to get this legislation stopped.
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Reader Ron L. noted: “What happens when you have a displaced populace? Disease. Then unrest. It’s happening now in Haiti.”
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Rourke mentioned: Emergency Broadcast System Coming to Cell Phones
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Tam mentioned that some of our returning veterans are getting infuriatingly idiotic treatment from the TSA. That was almost incomprehensible. Oh well, at least there is some good news: The Medal of Honor for Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta. (Even though non-Veteran Barack Hussein Obama was officiating, it was still a moving presentation.) And speaking of the Medal of Honor, see: Passed and Pending Coin Legislation.