Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I am going to ask my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the Andrews amendment on several grounds. This amendment opposes additional regulations on the food industry, increasing their cost of doing business and threatening additional jobs in the food industry, our Nation's largest private sector employer. But more problematic, the amendment contains no definitions of what would constitute a proper label and, therefore, it would expose even those companies who could afford to comply with the new regulations to lawsuits that would cost yet more jobs. This amendment is an attempt to regulate an entire industry with one clause, and that is a recipe for confusion and disaster. Even companies who labeled, in an attempt to gain the benefits of the bill, might not get such protections because some judge somewhere will deem their attempt to label inadequate, and the amendment provides no standards to guide either the private sector or judges. Additionally, there is no definition in the amendment of genetically engineered, so people will not even know if their products have to comply with these additional regulations.”