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Jun
22

Homeland Security may impose new regulations on agriculture

Earl Glynn on June 22nd, 2009

Last Friday Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-Michigan) attempted to make an amendment to H.R. 2868, the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Act of 2009, to minimize the impact of new regulations on agriculture and farmers.  The Democratically controlled committee voted “no” on her amendment along party lines.  Farmers may now suffer increased regulations on any chemical product related [...]

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Jun
12

Do we want Homeland Security telling businesses how to run their businesses? Telling farmers how to farm?

Earl Glynn on June 12th, 2009

On May 19 the “Chemical Facility Security Authorization Act of 2009″ was introduced in Congress simply to extend an existing law to October 2012, which was put into effect in June 2007.
But, in draft legislation dated June 4, 2009, the House Homeland Security Committee revised this simple time extension and may be proposing next week [...]

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