Republicans do have a replacement healthcare plan!   Nancy

Senator Richard Burr, Republican, North Carolina

Conservative Ladies – standing from the left: Mary McKinney, Kathy Arab, Meg Gresham, Dana Postiglioni seated from the left: Laura Cox, Janie Wagstaff, Laura Gutman and Nancy Clark (Lee Green in blue dress standing in background)

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We are in the final stretch of the 111th Congress. Topping the list of unfinished items are bills funding operations of the federal government for the rest of the year and legislation that will ensure American families and small businesses do not face large tax increases on January 1.
The Majority has yet to set a schedule for the remaining time in this Congress, and major issues like funding the government and preventing tax increases on all Americans have not been addressed. In the absence of a clear agenda from the Majority Leader, on Tuesday, Senate Republicans sent a letter to Senator Reid urging him to make these issues the top priorities between now and the time the Senate adjourns. It’s time that the Majority bring the most critical legislation to the Senate floor for debate and a vote so we can get to work on the myriad of pressing issues on which Americans desperately need action taken. Read the letter we sent to Majority Leader in its entirety here.

One issue the Senate did vote on this week was the food safety bill. Our nation’s food safety system was designed over a century ago and was appropriate for a world in which most of our food was grown and processed domestically. Recent outbreaks of food-borne illness and nationwide recalls of contaminated food from both domestic and foreign sources highlight the need to modernize and strengthen our food safety system. This bill improves our capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to food-borne outbreaks and illnesses and increases safety standards on food imported from other countries. I joined a bipartisan group of Senators to help shape the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act so that I could be sure it worked for North Carolina, improved the safety of our food supply, and included protections for small farms and producers from onerous regulation. To read a summary and full text of the bill click here.

I have heard from many North Carolinians concerned that the bill will grant the FDA broader authority to regulate small, family farms. This is simply not true. The fact of the matter is if farms weren’t required to register with the FDA prior to this bill, they will not have to register as a result of this bill. I encourage you to visit this page on my website that addresses many of these areas of concern and sets the record straight on what this bill means for farms and businesses. (more…)

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Standing up for North Carolina: Discussing Health Care Reform
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SjqpbqtNHw&feature=search

Standing up for Veterans:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIHIVRIePLk&feature=search

Martha Jenkins supporting Richard Burr:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EROvu5jYhfY&feature=search

Richard Burr, down to earth:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpL9e7Bf98c&feature=search

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