H.R.5034 - Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010

To support State based alcohol regulation, to clarify evidentiary rules for alcohol matters, to ensure the collection of all alcohol taxes, and for other purposes. view all titles (2)

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  • Official: To support State based alcohol regulation, to clarify evidentiary rules for alcohol matters, to ensure the collection of all alcohol taxes, and for other purposes. as introduced.
  • Short: Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010 as introduced.

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03/30/11
You have put me in here a cub, but I will come out roaring like a ...

... a.k.a. the CARE Act (short for "Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness (CARE) Act of 2010"), and this web page looks to describe it in some detail: http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h5034/show. ...

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01/02/11
Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog: Key Issues For the Wine ...

Last year's battle in Congress over H.R. 5034 was a preview to what is coming in 2011. Look for this legislation to be re-introduced this year with a new primary sponsor. Look too for it to be introduced into the Senate, where it failed ...

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12/30/10
And the winner is...

Indeed, WVVI's '08 Pinot and '09 Riesling is world class, but the threat of the HR 5034 proposal in Congress, which would prohibit sales of wine directly to customers, put a wet blanket on this stock. 12. Cathy - VZ - 35.78, up 7.13% ...

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12/30/10
Field Notes from a Wine Life – Doin - Good Grape: A Wine Blog ...

Over the course of this year, I felt like many wine enthusiasts, myself included, gave lip service focus to HR 5034 without really understanding the underpinnings to the issue, or how to combat it. If we're honest with ourselves, ...

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12/28/10
Legal Libations: This year in alcohol regulation

HR 5034 will continue to make headlines in the coming year. It is largely promoted and paid for by the beer and wine distributors, to grant the states the ability to prohibit their consumers from purchasing alcohol from retailers in ...

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12/27/10
The Year in Craft Beer: top 10 of 2010

The other is HR 5034. The bill is largely thought to have implications for beer even though the discussion primarily references the wine industry. The other thing I'll be watching is the development of beer websites and beer apps on ...

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12/27/10
Wine Retailers Appeal to SCOTUS for Review of Constitutional Issues

If SCOTUS grants cert to the wine retailers petitioning for this case, the Supreme Court's insight will be particularly interesting in light of HR 5034. Read more about the petition to the Supreme Court by the wine retailers at Wine ...

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12/27/10
Will Napa Valley Cabernet Be Saved By Ranking It?

If you think the uproar over the proposed federal law (HR 5034) to give alcohol wholesalers hyper control over the American wine marketplace has been severe inside the wine industry, try to tell an American winery owner they can't ...

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12/22/10
Wine Lessons Learned from the Tea Party and the TSA

HR 5034 is a well-chronicled would-be affront to consumer access to wine, as prepared by the National Beer Wholesalers Association, in a lobbying function, before being introduced into the House of Representatives as a bill for ...

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12/21/10
Madison Beer Review: Want Some of That Tasty Beer Money?

As currently drafted, H.R. 5034 would amount to an abandonment of Congressional authority over interstate commerce in alcohol beverages. It will undermine existing federal authority over taxation, product composition, labeling, ...

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12/20/10
A Whiff of Scandal and the Odds of HR 5034 Becoming Law Grow ...

Beer and liquor wholesalers gave $1.3 million this election cycle to members of Congress who signed up as co-sponsors of HR 5034, the bill written to reinforces states' rights to regulate alcohol. Not really a lot unusual about money ...

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12/17/10
Umpqua Valley Wine News: “I'll have some more,please”

And to make that arrangement permanent these “suits” are sicking their lobbyists on Washington in the form of H.R. 5034. This is one of those sleeper bills that may sneak by the Congress if you don't demand its demise. ...

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12/14/10
Sommelier learns about HR 5034

Funny Wine youtube video on Wine and HR 5034. Source: http://thegrapesaroundtexas.com/2010/08/04/sommelier-learns-about-hr-5034/. bordeaux Chateau Talbot Chateau Mouton Rothschild.

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12/10/10
Make a Winery “Love Connection”

On a serious note, HR 5034 aka the CARE Bill is still floating around congress. This bill which is promoted by the wine and beer distributor industry seeks to restrict the way we can buy wines directly from wineries to protect their ...

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12/09/10
Wine Lessons Learned from the Tea Party and the TSA

That's the consumer rights lesson I've learned this year, and bar none, the wine-related hot button issue potentially affecting consumers this same year has been HR 5034, a part of the wine niche headlines since April. ...

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12/07/10
Interstate Wine Shipping Threatened by Proposed Legislation

HR 5034, the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2010, a bill filed before the US House of Representatives earlier this year, has the potential to severely restrict direct interstate wine shipping by retailers. ...

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12/07/10
son's blog: Wine Lessons Learned from the Tea Party and the TSA

HR 5034 is a well-chronicled would-be affront to consumer access to wine, as prepared by the National Beer Wholesalers Association, in a lobbying function, before being introduced into the House of Representatives as a bill for ...

Source: son's blog
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12/06/10
Grape Sense - Glass Half Full: New Wine Shop, A Sassy Bitch & Notes

Write your U.S. House representative and ask him to oppose H.R. 5034 which would cripple wine producers from all states. Write your state representatives and senators to ask them to tear down the antiquated three-tier system and to ...

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12/04/10
Wine Lessons Learned from the Tea Party and the TSA

HR 5034 is a well-chronicled would-be affront to consumer access to wine, as prepared by the National Beer Wholesalers Association, in a lobbying function, before being introduced into the House of Representatives as a bill for ...

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12/03/10
Brandywine Valley trail adds wine and food festival to 2011 ...

There are many threats to the business climate these days, from potential excise tax increases to the wholesalers' "CARE" Act (H.R. 5034) in Congress that could erode many of the privileges that have enabled the New York wine industry ...

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12/03/10
• Guest comment: NY wine priorities for 2011 « DRINKING NEW YORK

There are many threats to the business climate these days, from potential excise tax increases to the wholesalers' CARE Act (H.R. 5034) in Congress that could erode many of the privileges that have enabled the New York wine industry to ...

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11/29/10
Palate or Opinion? - Good Grape: A Wine Blog Manifesto

That's the consumer rights lesson I've learned this year, and bar none, the wine-related hot button issue potentially affecting consumers this same year has been HR 5034, a part of the wine niche headlines since April. ...

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11/28/10
FWWS Blog: Wine Industry News

As you are probably aware, the wholesalers have responded to Granholm in the US congress by proposing HR-5034 to have congress give up its exclusive right to regulate interstate commerce with regard to wine, thereby allowing states like ...

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11/27/10
American Wine Consumer Coalition

HR 5034 in Washington, DC would severely impact wine consumers...YET, no consumers were consulted, nor asked to testify at hearings. Michigan and Illinois have stripped wine consumers of their rights to have wine shipped to them from ...

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11/27/10
Wine Lessons Learned from the Tea Party and - Good Grape: A Wine ...

HR 5034 is a well-chronicled would-be affront to consumer access to wine, as prepared by the National Beer Wholesalers Association, in a lobbying function, before being introduced into the House of Representatives as a bill for ...

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11/25/10
Wine, Consumer Issue, Wine Shipping, Beverage Wholesalers, H.R. ...

Once again, I believe the Federal government's role in interstate commerce is being set aside by H.R. 5034. WHO BENEFITS FROM HOUSE BILL 5034. Why do you suppose, with all the critical legislation that congress should be working on, ...

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11/23/10
Get Ready for the 2011 battle on Wine Regulation

Word on the street has been the that the wholesalers would not try to get HR 5034–a bill that would allow states to increase regulation and limit direct shipping of wine–to the floor during the lame duck session of Congress. ...

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11/23/10
The Battle Over Booze « Fox News Insider

Within minutes of my first report about House Bill HR 5034, I got phone calls from people with opinions about whether wine, beer and liquor should be direct shipped to consumers across the country. I have also been told that some in ...

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11/23/10
The Battle Over Booze « Liveshots

Within minutes of my first report about House Bill HR 5034, I got phone calls from people with.

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11/21/10
Alcohol Industry Should Stop Working at Odds

The wholesaler's attempt to secure their role in the market with HR 5034–a congressional bill that would allow states to limit direct shipping of wine to consumers–is just one example. Another example involves infighting between wine, ...

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