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do you support continuing tarrifs on sugar imports, and if you do, why?
Asked by: Gerald Wagner from Dayton, OH. Received 11 Votes.
Categories: Globalization.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH)

Right now in the United States we pay about twice what the world going rate is on sugar, and that causes cookies and candies and all kind of other products to be more expensive at the supermarket, because of the sugar policy in America. And there are a fairly small number of very wealthy falimies in Florida that take advantage of this to the detriment of the rest of the country. So in my view we ought to let the market determine what the price of sugar ought to be and we shouldn’t have any sort of subsidy or any sort of tariffs on sugar.

Answered on Apr 17th, 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
Independent studies show both parties receive huge amounts of money from the lobby groups and the winners allegiance will be to multinational corporations. How can the public benefit from an election if the lobbyists are not eliminated?
Asked by: Ernest Paviour from . Received 1 Vote.
Categories: Campaign 2008 · Civil Liberties · Economy · Environment · Ethics · Foreign Policy · Globalization · Immigration · Money & Politics · Regulation · Taxes. Tags: All impacted by lobby groups.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)

Well, I think that we do need to reduce the influence of lobbyist on the electoral process and on the hill, in terms of increasing transparency, prohibiting lobbyist from winning and dining members of Congress, reducing travel. Common Cause, Public Interest, other groups, other public watch dog groups, hailed it as a landmark piece of legislation. It dramatically limits the influence of lobbyist in terms of their winning and dining of legislators, no traveling with lobbyist. It sets up some very important firewalls in the process.

Answered on Feb 20th, 2008 More
Do you think that US government support for corn-based ethanol will adversely affect the poor in developing countries through rising food prices and, if so, what will you do to avoid that outcome?
Asked by: Heather Franzese from Portland, OR. Received 24 Votes.
Categories: Agriculture · Energy · Globalization.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)

Well, corn based ethanol is not our energy future. It’s already having an effect in this country and around the world. In terms of distorting price signals and supply chains. We need to have a requirement that biofuels are sustainable, positive for the economy and not mere substitutions and corn based as I say, is one that doesn’t meet those tests. We’re working to try to reform the farm bill to provide appropriate tax incentives for sustainable renewable energy and research for the biofuels that make sense.”

Answered on Jan 29th, 2008 More
Do you think that US government support for corn-based ethanol will adversely affect the poor in developing countries through rising food prices and, if so, what will you do to avoid that outcome?
Asked by: Heather Franzese from Portland, OR. Received 24 Votes.
Categories: Agriculture · Energy · Globalization.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)

Ethanol may play a role in fuel alternatives, but we simply can not grow our way out of this energy crisis. We are going to have to look at all kinds of fuel alternatives. And the problem with a corn based fuel supply is that it is used not only for fuel but is used for food around the world. It also helps feed our livestock and its used for glue. It is used for so many different things that I think it is not going to be one of the energy fuels of the future.

Answered on Jan 29th, 2008 More
More than 21 million toys made in China have been recalled this year. Should the head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission resign?
Asked by: DCPundit from Washington, DC. Received 33 Votes.
Categories: Foreign Policy · Globalization · Money & Politics. Tags: china · consumers · lead · product safety · toys.

Listen to: U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

“I came from the kitchen to the Congress. I came as a Mom wanting to make sure that public policy did whatever it could do that parents couldn’t do to protect its children and the trust that parents across the country would like to have in the federal government is completely unjustified when we see how lax the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been with its acting chairperson saying we don’t need any more resources and we don’t need any more authority.”

Answered on Dec 6th, 2007 More