Sausage Making For A Food Fight

The bill to give the FDA more power to regulate food safety passed...and didn't pass.  As a result, it's going to be included in the Big Ol' Everything End Of Year Bill.

Food safety legislation stalled by a constitutional snag could be revived as part of a giant year-end budget bill.

The bill to increase the Food and Drug Administration's powers to keep food safe stalled after overwhelmingly passing the Senate last week. House Democrats said after it passed that the bill contains fees that are considered tax provisions, which under the Constitution must originate in the House.

House Democrats are attempting to fix the problem by adding the legislation to a catchall spending bill unveiled early Wednesday.

I hope it works.  There's an awful lot of stuff going into BOEEOYB that Republicans can really, really permanently wreck if they run out the clock on it.  Having said that, I'm not sure the GOP leadership is this crazy.

Yet.