Republicans did not like how the Democrats did it, but they provided enough votes Thursday to see the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 pass the U.S. House of Representatives with a strong bipartisan vote of 283-to-142.
Just before passing the biggest food safety reform since 1938, the House Democrats had to turn back a
The U.S. House of Representatives at 2:41 p.m. EDT began debating the rule under which H.B. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 will be considered later today. Debate on the rule is scheduled to take one hour and debate on the bill is scheduled for another hour. Here is a PDF copy
Here is what is going to happen today on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to get H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, passed:
After the House gets through with the Defense Appropriations Act of 2010, it will turn to House Resolution 691, the rule for consideration of H.R. 2749. There
Congress today knocked H.R. 2749, the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, off the fast track. It fell six votes short of achieving the two-thirds necessary to pass without amendments under a suspension of House rules.
In the next couple of days, it will come up under regular order, meaning it can be adopted with
John Dingell came up six or seven votes short today, and failed to get food safety reform legislation passed through Congress.
Dingell, the once powerful Michigan Democrat who lost his chairmanship of the Energy & Commerce Committee before the start of the 111th Congress, fell just short of getting the necessary two-thirds majority vote to
The U.S. House of Representatives is now on the floor debating H.R. 2749 "to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to improve the safety of food in the global market, and for other purposes."
Forty minutes of debate will be followed by a vote to suspend the rules and allow voting on final