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Hello There, We should be using Industrial Hemp a part of our nations energy policy. I want to know when the Industrial Hemp Act H.R. 1009 that seems to be held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary; be voted on and what are the presidential candidates position on this issue. http://industrialhempthebilliondollarcrop.blogspot.com/ More

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by William Hill from Chesterfield, VA

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Hello There, We should be using Industrial Hemp a part of our nations energy policy. I want to know when the Industrial Hemp Act H.R. 1009 that seems to be held up in the House Committee on the Judiciary; be voted on and what are the presidential candidates position on this issue. http://industrialhempthebilliondollarcrop.blogspot.com/ More

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by William Hill from Chesterfield, VA

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Can you confirm that U.S. policy in Iraq prohibits Iraqi farmers from replanting their traditional seeds in lieu of patented seeds from the west? In fact making saving seeds illegal. If so, do you think this is good policy, and why?
Asked by: Kurt Christensen from Westminster, MD. Received 29 Votes.
Categories: Agriculture · Civil Liberties · Environment · Foreign Policy · Iraq · President Bush · Regulation · Rural · Technology. Tags: biodiversity · genetically modified organisms · intellectual property.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO)

They produce a lot of potatoes over there, I know that. There is very little their soil is actually conducive for agriculture. They do have some irrigated ground down in the south around Basra but, you know, most of that was drained or flooded by Saddam Hussein. I don’t know if they’ve ever gotten that infrastructure back yet. Not a whole lot of agriculture takes place in Iraq. There’s a lot of desert there, so they don’t have the water infrastructure either, is the problem. I mean I couldn’t…I’m just not sure.

Answered on Jun 19th, 2008 More
Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?
Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Nutrition education we already do within health classes. When my kids were in kindergarten or 1st Grade, and how many grains and how many dairies, so nutrition education, yes. One of the other questions to be asked is, is it the federal government’s role to tell schools what they should be doing within the choices that are available within a school. We need to keep in mind that within the past 40 some-odd years, we’ve been doing that within the school lunch program. We have set the standards within school lunches and we say there are standards that need to be met.

Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More
Should the federal government require schools to teach nutrition?
Asked by: goat from Brooklyn, NY. Received 13 Votes.
Categories: Agriculture · Consumer · Economy · Education · Energy · Environment · Globalization · Health · Immigration · Rural · Technology.

Listen to: U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA)

Well first of all, it’s not up the federal government to mandate what schools teach. I would never want to intrude on the local jurisdiction of schools to decide who they hire, who the fire, what books use. That’s not the role of the federal government. But I do think the role of the federal government is, as long as we’re providing school lunches and school breakfasts and food in schools, that we ought to be able to say what foods would be allowed in those schools.

Answered on Mar 19th, 2008 More
Why are so many lawmakers trying to designate so much land as “wilderness”?
Asked by: Matt Laslo from Washington, DC. Received 7 Votes.
Categories: Environment · Rural.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-WY)

I can guarantee you the entire west does not look like Grand Teton National Park, and I think some of these Congressmen think the entire west looks like Grand Teton National Parks.

Answered on Mar 13th, 2008 More
If nuclear power makes a comeback in the US is safety a major concern?
Asked by: Matt Laslo from Washington, DC. Received 1 Vote.
Categories: Economy · Energy · Environment · Homeland Security · Rural · Technology. Tags: energy · nuclear energy · nuclear power · yucca mountain.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Robert E. "Bud" Cramer Jr. (D-AL)

Safety is a concern, but I’ve been to France a number of times and looked at their commitment to nuclear . . . I (just) don’t think safety is the scary issue that many of us thought ten, twenty years ago.

Answered on Nov 26th, 2007 More