Political Quotes

“I appreciate the gentleman from Massachusetts' interest in this very important topic. We said it several times. I am going to say it again. What this bill does is provides a national label where there is no label now at the national level; and we believe so strongly in that, that we put forward this bill. Our side put forward this bill to give us a national label because there is none now. There is zero, and you would be, as a consumer, totally depending upon your local government, your State government, coming up with it. You may find that your government at the local level has one thing, your State government at the State level has another, a community down the road has a different one. The idea behind the uniformity is to give consumers a uniform way of understanding what this information is. I do wonder, by the way, what some people at home may be thinking when they hear all this talk about GMOs. They may be running to the refrigerator and saying, What is this GMO stuff? The truth of the matter is we all are probably consuming GMOs, because they have actually been a tremendous benefit not just to the agricultural industry, but to us consumers. It gives us so many different varieties of good quality food that we didn't have before. So this is not about whether GMOs are a good thing or a bad thing. They are about our side providing a vehicle to give a national labeling system today, where there is none today.…”