House to debate and vote on Pompeo bill today
July 23, 2015 |10:42 AM
The House will consider H.R. 1599 – Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act – later this morning and vote on it at approximately 1 p.m., the House Daily Gallery said this morning.
The House began legislative business at 10 a.m. After one-minute speeches and a debate on the rule providing for consideration of H.R. 3009 – Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act – the House will turn to H.R. 1599, which was introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan.
The bill would stop state laws requiring labeling of genetically modified foods and set up a federal voluntary “non-GMO” labeling system at the Agriculture Department.
The rule on H.R. 1599 provides for one hour of general debate and makes in order the following amendments:
The House began legislative business at 10 a.m. After one-minute speeches and a debate on the rule providing for consideration of H.R. 3009 – Enforce the Law for Sanctuary Cities Act – the House will turn to H.R. 1599, which was introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan.
The bill would stop state laws requiring labeling of genetically modified foods and set up a federal voluntary “non-GMO” labeling system at the Agriculture Department.
The rule on H.R. 1599 provides for one hour of general debate and makes in order the following amendments:
- DeFazio amendment (10 minutes of debate)
- Huffman / Polis / McCollum / Grijalva / Ruiz amendment (10 minutes of debate)
- DeLauro amendment (10 minutes of debate)
- Pingree / DeFazio / Polis amendment (10 minutes of debate)
