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Issues
National
EPA Vs. American Farmers:
"You can't use your own land"
The EPA plans to add regulations that could be disastrous for farmers across the country.
At the urging of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the EPA wants to create new buffer zones around waterways. Farmers would be prevented from using any of their land within 500 feet of a waterway. They claim that the buffer zones are needed to protect the waterways from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
Clint Didier, a Washington family farmer in Eastern Washington, says that even though the government wouldn't actually take his land, they might as well if it has to just sit there unused.
Didier says that in Washington state, that means that more than 60-percent of farmland will be out of service.
But Didier says that the state's own research shows this is a solution with no problem.
A 6-year study conducted by the Department of Agriculture found no evidence of any pesticide, herbicide or fungicide residues.
EPA Vs. American Farmers:
"You can't use your own land"
The EPA plans to add regulations that could be disastrous for farmers across the country.
At the urging of the National Marine Fisheries Service, the EPA wants to create new buffer zones around waterways. Farmers would be prevented from using any of their land within 500 feet of a waterway. They claim that the buffer zones are needed to protect the waterways from pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
Clint Didier, a Washington family farmer in Eastern Washington, says that even though the government wouldn't actually take his land, they might as well if it has to just sit there unused.
Didier says that in Washington state, that means that more than 60-percent of farmland will be out of service.
But Didier says that the state's own research shows this is a solution with no problem.
A 6-year study conducted by the Department of Agriculture found no evidence of any pesticide, herbicide or fungicide residues.
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Washington State
“Read the Bills Act (RTBA):
We are working with several Members of the Legislature to introduce a bill that would require full transparency of consideration of any bill that comes before the Members.
This would prevent mammoth bills like the healthcare bill & cap and trade from passing in the middle of the night without full understanding.
Up until a generation ago, every bill was read on the floor of the Legislature in its entirety. Since that practice was stopped, the bills hjlls have gotten bigger & badder.
PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE PERSONAL CONTACT WITH A MEMBER WHO YOU CAN APPROACH ABOUT BECOMING A SPONSOR.
Based on model federal language from Downsize DC, the RTBA requires:
- Each bill, and every amendment, must be read in its entirety before a quorum in both the House and Senate.
- Every member of the House and Senate who plans to vote in the
affirmative – to vote for tax increases, for spending bills, for the
retention or creation of programs, in support of laws and regulations –
must sign a sworn affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that he or she
has attentively either personally read, or heard read, the complete bill
to be voted on.
- Every old law coming up for renewal under the sunset provisions
must also be read according to the same rules that apply to new bills.
- Every bill to be voted on must be published on the Internet at
least 7 days before a vote, and the Legislature must give public notice of the
date when a vote will be held on that bill.
- Passage of a bill that does not abide by these provisions will
render the measure null and void, and establish grounds for the law to
be challenged in court.
- These requirements can not be waived.
