Will the new GOP-dominated House defund the FDA?

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"…The House on Tuesday gave final approval to a landmark food safety bill designed to bring an archaic system for protecting the nation's food supply into the 21st century and equip the Food and Drug Administration with the tools needed to monitor a complex supply chain that stretches around the world.

And President Obama was scheduled to sign the measure into law almost immediately.

But the historic effort may run into trouble next year over an old problem -- money.

The current bill does not establish a secure funding system and Republicans, who gained control of the House and expanded their numbers in the Senate last November, have made shrinking government spending a high priority..."

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sc-dc-1222-food-safety-20101221,0,1241570.story
 
Mojo said:
I wonder if if the small-government backlash will trump this:

"The al Qaeda group that built two toner-cartridge bombs in an unsuccessful attempt to blow up planes in October also has contemplated spreading poison on salad bars and buffets at U.S. hotels and restaurants, U.S. officials told CNN Tuesday."

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/21/al.qaeda.poison.plot/index.html?hpt=T2
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With your limited ability, could you explain how the FDA are going to stop terrorists from spreading poison on a salad bar or a buffet? :palm:
 
Will the new GOP-dominated House defund the FDA?

It is what domestic terrorists do...it wouldn't surprise me if they defund the FDA, the EPA and the DOE.

Keep in mind that it is always the desire of conservatism to create an aristocracy. Wealth = virtue, even if the wealthy have rats running abound their food processing plant, they are virtuous rats, as is the disease we contract.
 
Bfgrn said:
Will the new GOP-dominated House defund the FDA?

It is what domestic terrorists do...it wouldn't surprise me if they defund the FDA, the EPA and the DOE.

Keep in mind that it is always the desire of conservatism to create an aristocracy. Wealth = virtue, even if the wealthy have rats running abound their food processing plant, they are virtuous rats, as is the disease we contract.
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Interesting perspective considering A) Republicans couldn't get anything past the Senate and then Obama and

B) who's troll is Mojo?
 
I dont think will defund the FDA.

The backlash would be pretty bad when people started getting sick all over the nation.

I hope they are not this stupid.
 
cawacko said:
Interesting perspective considering A) Republicans couldn't get anything past the Senate and then Obama and

B) who's troll is Mojo?
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A: "Congress on Tuesday approved yet another temporary spending bill, this one running through March 4, the fourth such stopgap measure since the fiscal year ended Sept. 30.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has stopped hiring and halted most travel by agency officials.

The effective spending freeze amounts to a reduction when rising costs are taken into account — a welcome outcome to many Republicans — and disrupts the government’s ability to carry out programs and policy changes.

And with the partisan feud over spending threatening to become an all-out impasse when the Republican majority takes control of the House in January, such temporary spending measures, and the crunch they cause, may continue indefinitely.

Republicans say Democrats are to blame, having failed to pass any of the dozen regular appropriations bills earlier this year. Democrats say Republicans are stalling until next year, when they will have greater leverage in Congress to press for cuts at levels that Democrats call reckless and unrealistic.

But the finger-pointing is largely irrelevant to dozens of budget-constrained federal agencies, as well as to state and local governments and a wide array of local organizations that depend heavily on year-to-year financing approved by Congress.

Agencies have some ability to move money among programs to deal with changing priorities, but they say it is not enough to ensure that they can meet all their responsibilities.

“Operating under the continuing resolution is already forcing the agency to delay or cut back enforcement and market oversight efforts,” said John Nester, a spokesman for the S.E.C., which faces a huge new workload to carry out the Wall Street regulation law enacted this year. “The longer we operate under significant budgetary restrictions, the greater the impact.”

The effective spending freeze amounts to a reduction when rising costs are taken into account — a welcome outcome to many Republicans — and disrupts the government’s ability to carry out programs and policy changes.

And with the partisan feud over spending threatening to become an all-out impasse when the Republican majority takes control of the House in January, such temporary spending measures, and the crunch they cause, may continue indefinitely."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/us/politics/22spend.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

B: Do you mean "whose"?
 
Bfgrn said:
Will the new GOP-dominated House defund the FDA?

It is what domestic terrorists do...it wouldn't surprise me if they defund the FDA, the EPA and the DOE.
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so the lefts new tactic is to label small government supporters as 'domestic terrorists? :palm:

Bfgrn said:
Keep in mind that it is always the desire of liberalism to create an aristocracy. Wealth = virtue, even if the wealthy have rats running abound their food processing plant, they are virtuous rats, as is the disease we contract.
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fixed that for you.
 
If the Republican's had a veto proof majority then they might. But, IF they get that Majority in 2012, and a Republican President to boot, they would never defund the FDA. This is all political wrangling. Make it look like the president is not in favor of small government (which in reality he is not) by sending him a bill he is sure to veto, or that won't even get out of the Senate to say, "See, if there were more of us we could shrink the government." But not even the most conservative of Republicans are STOOPID enough to really get rid of the FDA. Bad food would start making people sick, or killing them and they would get the blame. Too bad no one in Congress is actually for making OUR lives simpler and less invaded.
 
Socrtease said:
If the Republican's had a veto proof majority then they might. But, IF they get that Majority in 2012, and a Republican President to boot, they would never defund the FDA. This is all political wrangling. Make it look like the president is not in favor of small government (which in reality he is not) by sending him a bill he is sure to veto, or that won't even get out of the Senate to say, "See, if there were more of us we could shrink the government." But not even the most conservative of Republicans are STOOPID enough to really get rid of the FDA. Bad food would start making people sick, or killing them and they would get the blame. Too bad no one in Congress is actually for making OUR lives simpler and less invaded.
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You are probably right. I have seen some people call for the defunding of NPR, EPA, etc.
 
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