產業購買國會選票以通過S510食物安全條例草案

產業購買國會選票以通過S510食物安全條例草案
Industry bought Congressional votes to pass S. 510 food safety bill
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
by: Jonathan Benson, staff writer
Translation by Autumnson Blog

(NaturalNews) Despite an incredible outpouring of public opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) "Food Safety Modernization Act", or S. 510, the Senate voted 73 to 25 to pass the bill anyway. And data presented by Maplight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, shows that big industry groups and large food producers spent millions of dollars buying off Congressmen to garner support for it.
（NaturalNews）儘管一令人難以置信對美國食品和藥物管理局（FDA）的“食品安全現代化法案”(或S 510)的源源不斷公眾的反對，但反正參議院卻以73對25投票通過了法案。和由一個非牟利、非黨派的研究組織Maplight.org提交的數據，顯示大企業集團和大型食品生產商花費數以百萬計的美元，去收買國會議員爭取支持它。
According to the site, Senators that ended up supporting the bill received nearly $10 million in political contributions from interest groups that also supported the bill. This amount was more than four times as much as groups opposed to the bill spent on overall contributions.
根據該網站，最終支持條例草案的參議員們，收到來自支持該法案的利益集團近1,000萬美元的政治捐款。這一數額四倍多過反對該法案的團體用於整體的捐獻。
Some of the supporters of S. 510 that made these significant monetary contributions in order to buy support for the bill include Kraft Foods North America, the American Beverage Association, General Mills, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, and the Snack Food Association.

Interestingly, the top four receivers of contributions from groups that supported the bill actually voted against it, most likely because they are all Republicans and the bill was authored by Democrat Richard Durbin. Even so, these include Sens. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) who received $503,700, Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who received $415,899, Jon Kyl (R-AZ) who received $335,377, and Richard Burr (R-NC) who received $317,086.

The top receivers of contributions from groups that supported the bill, and who ended up voting in favor of it, include Sens. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) who received $301,776, Ben Nelson (D-NE) who received $245,906, Charles Schumer (D-NY) who received $179,435, and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) who received $149,278.

To see a full list of the Senators who supported S. 510, visit:
http://www.naturalnews.com/030577_S...

Sources for this story include:

http://maplight.org/us-congress/bil...

http://www.naturalnews.com/030586_S_510_corruption.html

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