Senate might not buy King’s amendment to open all states to all American farm products
Story Date: 8/8/2018

 

Source: Dan Flynn, FOOD SAFETY NEWS, 8/7/18

Representative Steve King, R-IA, has succeeded in attaching his “Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA) of 2018” to the House version of the now 641-page “Farm Bill” and senators are pushing back. A conservative Republican, King wants to use federal power to stop states from interfering with what he refers to as American agriculture. In response, some of the Senate’s most liberal Democrats and Socialist Bernie Sanders, S-VT, are lining up to support state’s rights.

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