WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Adam Schiff issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, released today 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 pills such a...