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H.R.1549 - Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009
- Geraldin : In relation with this post , have you heard that <a title="Animal antibiotic use partially banned by FDA" href="http://www.newsytype.com/14246-animal-antibiotic-use/">Animal antibiotic use partially banned by FDA</a>.Many farmers have made it common practice to give animals antibiotics to ensure they are healthy, even if the animal would not otherwise be healthy. The Food and Drug Administration, however, will be limiting a few of this practice in order to keep human antibiotic resistance from growing.
- Seabourne : Please stop poisoning the meat you expect us to eat. I can NOT eat the meat raised on antibiotic laced feed. I get very ill from it. This is needed! Clean farms and well cared for livestock will keep the food healthy and abundant!
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H.R.875 - Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
- PatMeaney : Part of the problem of food production depending so heavily on oil is the growing use of GMO foods many of which are modified seeds that produce much higher yields. They are designed to be resistant to pesticides allowing crops to be sprayed heavily with highly toxic pesticides such as Roundup and Atrazine. Farmers then need three times more water to irrigate GMO crops, resulting in further drainage of the world's fresh water supplies.
To sever the relationship between oil and food will require a major paradigm shift in how we produce food. In the words of Richard Hienberg (2005): "Given the fact that fossil fuels are limited in quantity and we are already in view of the global oil production peak, the debate over the potential productivity chemical-gene engineered agriculture and agroecological farming may be relatively pointless. We must turn to a food system that is less fuel reliant, even if it does prove to be less productive."
**All of this is from the above link**
- PatMeaney : In contrast to the paradigm shift in Cuba, the U.S. government is continuing to provide generous subsidies to agribusiness, thus postponing the day when a transformation in farming methods can be set in motion. For example, there were three types of agricultural subsidies and in 2008: the government paid our $12.2 billion in direct subsidies with 62% going to commercial farms; $5.2 billion in commodity payments with 76% going to commercial farms; $2.7 billion in conservation payments with 33% going to commercial farms.
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H.Res.333 - Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
- calvininsf : I believe this is entirely just and will be surprised if he is not brought before international court.
- eagleriver90 : Oh, give it a rest. Dick Cheney was vetted constantly by all members of Congress, including the most liberal ones, who also approved and voted for all these "high crimes" - Are you all forgetting that little important fact? EVERYONE, including Bill Clinton when he was president, believed that there were WMD in Iraq. Even before Dick Cheney took on his 'evil persona' after he was voted in.
You people need to get a life and pay better attention to the real events - not just listen to those who would revise history!
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H.R.5351 - Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008
- Anonymous : Let's get this bill through congress. We need all kinds of energy:Wind, Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal, Coal, Oil etc. Let's not have a future of bicycles and eating the grass in our backyards.
We need energy to grow crops, transport everything etc.
- Sader98 : Has any member of the house ever taken an economics class??
$18 billion will come off the oil companies and passed along to the consumers - along with the current price of oil which today has hit a new record of $127.49!! Vote them all out!
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S.414 - Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009
- dbmalkie6 : There should be a limit to credit. American's live beyond their means which is part of the reason we are in this financial state. The government is continuing this same practice with tax payer money. Will this really reduce the cost of credit? No. This industry will make up the profit lost from this bill by other means. I have heard several examples of potentially new "fees" to make up the difference. Interest rates are already being hiked in advance of this bill. At the end you will see rates already hiked up, and new "fees" being imposed on the consumer. What did we get in the end? Nothing but wasted taste payer dollars! 70% of our economy is consumer spending - 70%. This consumer cannot spend my hard earned money because the government has already spent it for me. Until the consumer starts spending and the government stops, you will see little improvement in our economy.
- TLee1 : Regarding the interest rates charged by credit card companie: they should be rolled back to comply with states' usury laws. If that can'r be done, the federal government should set a ceiling on all interest rates, never to exceed "x %." Anything above 15% is usurious.
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S.2248 - Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008
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- dragonfly777 : Not even the government of the United States should operate with all immunity. There must remain a system of checks and balances. There must be a system that everyone has to answer to to keep abuse of power under control. Too bad on this date 6/30/09 that the government of the Unitied States thinks it no longer answers to the people. That will change soon.
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