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In reply to the discussion: He failed us - Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs! [View all]Response to onenote (Reply #82)
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He failed us - Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! It's Time to Label GMOs! [View all]
Smilo
Mar 2013
OP
That's an appropriations bill. I don't find any reference to Monsanto or food labeling in it.
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#80
Tacked into a spending bill? Yuk, so much gets added in these with no line item veto.
freshwest
Mar 2013
#65
It was in the local (DE) paper today that DuPont and Monsanto kissed and made up. n/t
woodsprite
Mar 2013
#4
Our complicit corporate enamored President does not have to sign these bills.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#43
What is your alternative. That every single provision in a several hundred page bill
onenote
Mar 2013
#82
"...strip federal courts of the authority to immediately halt the planting and sale of genetically
abelenkpe
Mar 2013
#44
and gay marriage and equal rights aren't much of an issue to some people either..
frylock
Mar 2013
#56
I don't like the provision, but the claim that it was unknown to most senators is BS
onenote
Mar 2013
#83
And then what happens when, according to some, he is powerless to stop the inclusion of a similar
AnotherMcIntosh
Mar 2013
#76
Poor, frail little Monsanto. Thank goodness the big, strong government came along to protect them.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Mar 2013
#21
Somebody should introduce the "powerless" Obama to his veto pen and explain its usefulness.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#24
So, how else can the executive exercise the power given to his office?
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#42
I'm willing to take a risk rather than be bullied by the corporations and the GOP.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#46
Yes, he is willing to be bullied and intimidated by the corporations and GOP.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Mar 2013
#52
So gm food should have a diagram of the gnome on the package? Wow that helps me a lot.
xtraxritical
Mar 2013
#47
When has he ever not put the interests of corporations over the public interest?
forestpath
Mar 2013
#39
can't veto JUST the provision that you name - and he was not going to veto the continuing
karynnj
Mar 2013
#66
Agreed. Not signing it would defund VAWA, etc. We have 6 months to go after this for the next
freshwest
Mar 2013
#90
Signing a bill passed by a veto proof majority to keep the government running was wrong?
onenote
Mar 2013
#86
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren voted FOR this bill. Repeat-voted FOR this bill.
graham4anything
Mar 2013
#77
more than that: 6 of 7 Democrats who sponsored an amendment to kill the monsanto
onenote
Mar 2013
#87