WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Cory Booker issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), both members of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, issued the following statement in response to the House-passed Farm Bill's inclusion of language that would preempt California's Proposition 12 and other state laws:
"We are extremely disappointed that today's House-passed Farm Bill includes language to preempt California's Prop 12 and other state laws. These laws set bare-minimum sanitation and space requirements for farm animals and are a lifeline to small, independent farmers who rely on the markets these laws have created. In order for a Farm Bill to pass in the Senate, poison pi...