The reality is that biotechnology, time and time again, has been proven safe. This is simply not a debatable point.

I asked Representative Kate Webb, the assistant majority leader in Vermont, that question. She said she agreed with it.

There is nothing in this legislation that denies any food producer any ability to market their product as non-GMO as long as that is a truthful statement and accurate.

The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act introduced to this Congress by Representatives Mike Pompeo and G.K. Butterfield would ensure that the labeling of biotech ingredients of food products is based on consistent standards using sound…

Before the idea that the government at any level should step in and mandate that they be labeled borders on the absurd.

Expanding government at any level to enshrine preferences into a costly legal requirement is bad policy.

In fact, Mr. Jaffe, a question to you. First of all, I want to say thank you. I have appreciated your counsel through this.

I do think it is important that for foods that are labeled non-GMO, that there is a Federal standard for that.

But my bill, in your judgment, it will allow those 7 percent of the people to continue to eat all non-GMO food if they chose and to only purchase products that contained a label that reflected that.

Do you believe that the American taxpayer has received good value for the tens of billions of federal dollars that have been spent on carbon capture technologies to date, yes or no?

Captain Christopher Lee Norgren, Wichita, Kansas, Kansas' Fourth Congressional District.

We have this obligation, just as you do, to make sure that the CPSC statutes are implemented in a way that is both legal, and appropriate, and useful.