No, she’s toast in Arizona, and I think she doesn’t care. My read is that Sinema is going to leave office in '24 and take a lucrative position with Pharma.
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Agreed. And the sooner Biden tells them adios, the better for the planet.
Really? I remember the controversy that it was labelled by the conservatives. Tell me more. I may be wrong. I do know it was used with derisive effect and it stuck that way.
Food safety, absolutely. Food quality, sure.
Mom’s chocolate chip recipe?
Why not? Other countries regulate food products that have a particular recipe or origin. Then the consumer knows what they are getting. Otherwise it’s really a crap shoot. Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Italy is really from Chico, Ca but you have to read the really tiny print to get there.
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And there’s some argument for protection of a specific culturally-tied product like champagne or parmesan cheese.
A generic recipe seems to have significantly less of a Fed interest.
The money lizards are slithering all over the earth and thumping their tails and eating our lunch. I wish Superman really did exist.
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So they dream of no regulation or agencies? Just wait until they get rid of FEMA for all those climate disasters …
No. @tena’s right. If you want to sell Mom’s chocolate chip cookies as Mom’s you have to use Mom’s recipe. Otherwise you call it chocolate chip cookies period. No different from selling a mixed breed dog to your customer as a pedigreed poodle.
Obviously you’re not a foodie. Bless your heart.
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Given Manchin’s machinations, it’s unfortunate that West Virginia’s name is attached to this case. But please don’t hate all of us: it’s one of 20-states that filed suit, and the case was consolidated
And I know you’re tired of me saying this, but if Manchin had lost the most recent election, the WV Atty Gen who filed this suit would be McConnell’s lapdog now
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I am. I’m just wondering just how deep the Feds need to go in making regulations on recipes.
Seems like a waste of resources.
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Try researching the Pure Food and Drug Act and the reasons it was passed.
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“This Supreme Court Case Could Make Or Break The Biden Presidency (And The Planet) Country”
FIFY
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Pfft. Like they’d really do a thorough job of it anyway. Big Food owns them.
But I still say if you call the whole thing off, it would be a free for all and very unfair to consumers – and I mean the ones who don’t read labels and ingredient lists. They’re the ones who don’t get what they pay for.
Kinda like Trump voters. Hmmmm. 
Maybe we should just let them buy Italian olive oil that comes from Mexico and Hollandaise sauce that’s mayonnaise.
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Here is your GOP strategy presentation bullet points:
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Prevent a Democratic Administration from “doing” anything
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Give an excuse to a Republican Administration for NOT doing anything.
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If there is any legislation needed to “legalize” further moves of the public treasury into private, GOP-sponsoring hands, the GOP will change whatever rules in Congress needed to do so while crying and whining were a Democratically controlled Congress attempt to do the same thing.
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Of course, allowing state-level voting restrictions that enable the GOP to win no matter what will prevent there ever being a Democratically-controlled Congress.
Game, set and match to neo-fascism.
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The very first two bills Trump signed into law on February 14th and 16th of 2017 dealt with financial discloses by energy companies and coal waste entering our waterways.
President Trump on Thursday signed legislation ending a key Obama administration coal mining rule.
The bill quashes the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule, a regulation to protect waterways from coal mining waste that officials finalized in December.
The legislation is the second Trump has signed into law ending an Obama-era environmental regulation. On Tuesday, he signed a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution undoing a financial disclosure requirement for energy companies.
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Then let her vote no publicly. Don’t make it painless for her.
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May the rest of her Senate term be painful.
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Like they’ve ever cared or this has ever mattered?
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O Canada.
Tar sands oil production is ramping up again.
Even the WSJ wrote about it:
Or:
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