For Immediate Release June 10, 2015 R-CALF USA Disappointed But Not Surprised With House COOL Repeal Billings, Mont. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard issued the following statement in response to today’s vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to repeal country of origin labeling (COOL) for beef, pork, chicken, ground beef and ground pork.…
WASHINGTON — With a final House showdown coming on Friday on President Obama’s push for accelerated power to pursue a sweeping trade agreement, the vote brokering has begun — and it is all tilting to the right. [Reposted from The New York Times | Jonathan Weisman | June 10, 2015] For Representative F. James Sensenbrenner,…
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined) H R 2393 YEA-AND-NAY 10-Jun-2015 10:05 PM QUESTION: On Passage BILL TITLE: Country of Origin Labeling Amendments Act of 2015 YEAS NAYS PRES NV REPUBLICAN 234 10 1 DEMOCRATIC 66 121 1 INDEPENDENT TOTALS 300 131 2 —-…
There is a myth in circulation that economics has vindicated free trade as the best policy across the board, and that anyone who doesn’t believe this “doesn’t understand economics.” [Reposted from The Hill | Ian Fletcher | June 4, 2015] But America’s free-trade agreements, like the mooted Trans-Pacific Partnership, don’t entail free trade at all.…
Luis Parada’s office is just four blocks from the White House, in the heart of K Street, Washington’s lobbying row – a stretch of steel and glass buildings once dubbed the “road to riches”, when influence-peddling became an American growth industry. Parada, a soft-spoken 55-year-old from El Salvador, is one of a handful of lawyers in…
