Sanders says he’ll try to block Senate GMO bill
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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’ll try to block Senate consideration of a bill that would require nationwide labeling of food with genetically modified products, but with a less stringent labeling requirement than the one included in Vermont’s law.
MONTPELIER, Vt. >> Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders says he’ll try to block Senate consideration of a bill that would require nationwide labeling of food with genetically modified products, but with a less stringent labeling requirement than the one included in Vermont’s law.
Individual senators can put a hold on legislation, blocking it from coming up for debate unless backers can muster 60 votes. The Vermont independent says he prepared to resort to that tactic.
Sanders’ comments come just days before Vermont is slated to become the first state to require labeling of genetically modified food.
And they come days after the Republican chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee announced compromise federal labeling legislation that Sanders says is too lenient on the food industry.
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Bernie, it’s time to wake up and smell the coffee.
Thank god this guy is the the nominee.
No anti-GMO bills!
You finally have a bi-partisan compromise and a step forward on the issue in the direction he supports, but now he wants to stop it cause it doesn’t go far enough? When is he going to learn an all-or-nothing approach doesn’t work on divisive issues.
Where was Obama on 9/11/2012?