Congress got fooled? Lulz.

**SmokenScion** · 03-28-13, 05:48 PM

Critics slam Obama for "protecting" Monsanto - CBS News

"In this hidden backroom deal, Sen. Mikulski turned her back on consumer, environmental and farmer protection in favor of corporate welfare for biotech companies such as Monsanto," Andrew Kimbrell, executive director of the Center for Food Safety, said in a statement, according to IBT. "This abuse of power is not the kind of leadership the public has come to expect from Sen. Mikulski or the Democrat Majority in the Senate."

The biotech industry, with the help of Congress, is attempting an end-run of the judicial system. Since judges can't get be bought off, just go to your friends in Congress instead. Michele Simon: Monsanto Teams Up With Congress to Shred the Constitution

Keep Digging Congress. I know what I'll be planting next, their careers.

**Alundil** · 03-28-13, 05:51 PM

**CivilWars** · 03-28-13, 05:52 PM

I am so sick of these dang Republicans lining the pockets of corporate America. Oh wait...

**SmokenScion** · 03-28-13, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

I am so sick of these dang Republicans lining the pockets of corporate America. Oh wait...

The running excuse is "I didn't Read it it"

First off, I would mandate Congress to watch the Human Centipede episode of South park.

**Nuckle** · 03-28-13, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by SmokenScion

The running excuse is "I didn't Read it it"

...and for that we should fire them at the next election regardless of their party.

**deputyfestus** · 03-28-13, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by Nuckle

...and for that we should fire them at the next election regardless of their party.

**Nuckle** · 03-29-13, 02:06 AM

Crickets......

**BigHub** · 03-29-13, 02:12 AM

Barry does no wrong!

**deathgodusmc** · 03-29-13, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by BigHub

Barry does no wrong!

Thanks for steppin up.

**Red_Lizard2** · 03-29-13, 03:21 PM

Originally Posted by CivilWars

I am so sick of these dang Republicans lining the pockets of corporate America. Oh wait...

Well a communist, socialist, facist wouldn't help out private corporations.

More serious:
Opponents of genetically modified organisms in food, or GMOs, rail against provision that would limit the courts

Reading it, it does sound a bit overhyped. I don't speak legalise, so maybe I'm misunderstanding it, but essentially if non-regulated status is invalid/vacated but the Secretary of Agriculture gets a petition, they issue (or from it sounds reissue) a permit if the plant (pest) meets the regulations of the department for obtaining a permit. They can also (re)issue an exception if they think section a of the Plant Protection Bill doesn't apply.

IT sounds that the secretary can still apply regulations to mitigate effects while the case is being solved and/or a study being done (which is a requirement of a permit exception I think, I may be mixing up sections and such). The last bit basically makes all the moving/growing/etc. fairly bunk since it can't limit the secretary's powers under 411, 412, or 414. Thus the secretary could make regulations/apply regulations and other shit that effects all that and still be within the law.

Again how I interpreted it, if anyone wants to have a go:
Full Text of H.R. 933: Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 - GovTrack.us
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_heal...ds/PPAText.pdf
(as I mentioned, for the second, looking for sections 411, 412, and 414).

Another article about it, also not on the overhyping trail
Did Congress Just Give GMOs A Free Pass In The Courts? | WUKY

Lastly, It didn't exactly sneak through, people knew about it for at least a couple weeks now. Further the whole "we don't know who put it in" seems bullshitty too, considering it doesn't seem like it took much time or effort for news agencies to figure out who it was.