These are the un-American, anti-consumer US Senators who voted for the DARK Act, trying to deny you the right to know what's in your food

These are the un-American, anti-consumer US Senators who voted for the DARK Act, trying to deny you the right to know what's in your food

Friday, March 18, 2016 by: Julie Wilson staff writer


Tags: DARK Act, U.S. Senators, GMO labeling



(NaturalNews) The agrichemical industry and Big Food took a major hit yesterday after the Senate blocked a bill aimed at preempting states' rights from enacting GMO-labeling laws; it also would have reversed any labeling laws currently in place, such as the one Vermont passed in 2014, which is scheduled to go into effect July 1, 2016.

S. 2609, coined the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act by its opponents, was narrowly defeated yesterday after it failed to receive the necessary votes. At least 60 "yes" votes were required for it to pass; however, it fell short, receiving only 49 yes's and 48 no's.

The right to know whether or not our food contains ingredients that are genetically altered is so pertinent to public health that we felt it absolutely crucial to let all of you know which of your senators voted for and against the bill, which is widely considered an outright attack on consumer rights.

Website glitch obscures vote tallies
The task of pulling the Senate's roll call vote tallies should have been an easy one. But it appears that government incompetence has once against muddied the waters. According to Senate.gov, roll call vote tallies are posted online within one hour of the vote.

However, at the time of this writing, if you go to click on March 16 (the date of the DARK Act vote), and click on the tally (48-49), you get what appears to be the correct vote results for S.2609, except that it's mislabeled as the "Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015." Next to "Measure Title," it reads: "A bill to reauthorize and amend the National Sea Grant College Program Act, and for other purposes."





This obviously has nothing to do with GMO labeling, so we phoned the Senate about the error. But they weren't much help, instead reassuring me that they would "escalate" the matter. Despite the confusion, it appears the vote tallies are in fact correct for the DARK Act; ironically, the measure just seems to be labeled inaccurately.

We believe the vote tallies are correct because they match up with Food and Water Watch's list of senators they say followed through and voted against the DARK Act after being pressured by activists. Based on that information, we are providing you with what we believe are the correct results for how your senators voted.

Rand Paul votes down DARK Act
Though Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) came out against GMO-labeling last fall, he voted against the DARK Act on Wednesday. Here are how the rest of the senators voted:

Alexander (R-TN), Yea	Flake (R-AZ), Yea	Nelson (D-FL), Nay
Ayotte (R-NH), Yea	Franken (D-MN), Nay	Paul (R-KY), Nay
Baldwin (D-WI), Nay	Gardner (R-CO), Yea	Perdue (R-GA), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea	Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay	Peters (D-MI), Nay
Bennet (D-CO), Nay	Graham (R-SC), Yea	Portman (R-OH), Yea
Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay	Grassley (R-IA), Yea	Reed (D-RI), Nay
Blunt (R-MO), Yea	Hatch (R-UT), Yea	Reid (D-NV), Nay
Booker (D-NJ), Nay	Heinrich (D-NM), Nay	Risch (R-ID), Yea
Boozman (R-AR), Yea	Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea	Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay	Heller (R-NV), Nay	Rounds (R-SD), Yea
Brown (D-OH), Nay	Hirono (D-HI), Nay	Rubio (R-FL), Not Voting
Burr (R-NC), Yea	Hoeven (R-ND), Yea	Sanders (I-VT), Not Voting
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay	Inhofe (R-OK), Yea	Sasse (R-NE), Yea
Capito (R-WV), Yea	Isakson (R-GA), Yea	Schatz (D-HI), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay	Johnson (R-WI), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea	Kaine (D-VA), Nay	Scott (R-SC), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Nay	King (I-ME), Nay	Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Cassidy (R-LA), Yea	Kirk (R-IL), Yea	Shaheen (D-NH), Nay
Coats (R-IN), Yea	Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea	Lankford (R-OK), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Collins (R-ME), Nay	Leahy (D-VT), Nay	Sullivan (R-AK), Nay
Coons (D-DE), Nay	Lee (R-UT), Nay	Tester (D-MT), Nay
Corker (R-TN), Yea	Manchin (D-WV), Nay	Thune (R-SD), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea	Markey (D-MA), Nay	Tillis (R-NC), Yea
Cotton (R-AR), Yea	McCain (R-AZ), Yea	Toomey (R-PA), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea	McCaskill (D-MO), Nay	Udall (D-NM), Nay
Cruz (R-TX), Not Voting	McConnell (R-KY), Nay	Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Daines (R-MT), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Nay	Warner (D-VA), Nay
Donnelly (D-IN), Yea	Merkley (D-OR), Nay	Warren (D-MA), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay	Mikulski (D-MD), Nay	Whitehouse (D-RI), Nay
Enzi (R-WY), Yea	Moran (R-KS), Yea	Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Ernst (R-IA), Yea	Murkowski (R-AK), Nay	Wyden (D-OR), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay	Murphy (D-CT), Nay
Fischer (R-NE), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Nay

Sources:

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