Republican Senator John Ensign
Desert Beacon’s informative post:
Among the programs Senator Ensign voted against funding: the Agricultural Research Service; the National Institute of Food and Agriculture; the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; the Food Safety and Inspection Service; and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund. Anyone unconvinced that food inspection and safety programs are a necessary function of government to protect the health and well-being of citizens might want to click over to “Recalls.gov” a resource with links to recalls of contaminated foods and other health warnings. One more click will open the “Current Recalls & Alerts” page. Three alerts have been issued since July 22, 2009: E.S.Miller ground beef products; Camacho’s Foods pork skin products; and, Beef Packers, Inc. ground beef products. [R&A] Senator Ensign’s “principled stand” against wasteful government spending and onerous regulation would have cut funding for these public safety and public notification services. Does anyone really want to stand at the fast food counter or the supermarket and guess if the beef is acceptable for human consumption?
via Desert Beacon: Ensign and other conservatives Vote Against Ag and Rural Programs. Thank you DB.
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