Thanks for being a part of USCA's "Making Change Work" Fly-In 2009!
Howdy Friends,
Words can't express my appreciation and gratitude to all of you that participated and helped out with the USCA's "Making Change Work" Fly-In 2009.
Ya'll did an outstanding job! Throughout this year you will see the fruits of your labor as needed legislation is introduced and bad legislation is stopped.
Ya'll should be very proud your work here in the Nation's Capital.
I have continued to receive a great deal of positive feedback from Congress and the Administration regarding your work and meetings!
Per request here's a copy of the USCA talking points.
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USCA
2009 Priority Issues
USCA supports the passage of the Foot and Mouth Disease Prevention Act (HR 1226 and S 337)
This bill prohibits importation of ruminants and swine, and fresh and frozen ruminant and pork meat products from Argentina until the Secretary certifies to Congress that every region of Argentina is free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination.
USCA supports the reintroduction of the Beef Checkoff Modernization Act
This bill amends the Beef Research and Promotion Act to allow the promotion of beef born and raised exclusively in the United States; allows the establishment of an importer's qualified beef council to promote non-domestic beef, and establishes new referendum requirements.
USCA supports USDA Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack for his decision to implement the Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law on March 16th with the caveat that he expects meat packers to voluntarily comply with the intent of Congress in writing the law.
USCA supports increased funding to upgrade the Plum Island Animal Disease Center.
USCA is opposed to the proposed National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, Kansas. The risks associated with locating the laboratory in the heartland of America's agriculture industry are too great. USCA encourages Congress to NOT allocate any funds that will allow the planning or construction of a new facility; instead, USCA supports increasing funds to upgrade the current research laboratory on Plum Island.
USCA opposes legislation to amend Title 18, United States Code, to prohibit certain conduct relating to the use of horses for human consumption. (HR 503). Legislation prohibiting transportation of horses to foreign countries where horses may end up in the food supply has decimated markets for all horses and resulted in horses being abandoned and released on private property and public lands.
USCA supports strengthening antitrust laws and ensuring fair market competition. Congress needs to increase market transparency by addressing captive supply contracts, mandatory price reporting, and packer ownership of cattle.
USCA requests that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) conduct a cost-benefit analysis of its proposed national animal identification system (NAIS). USCA does not support a national mandatory animal identification system, but supports standardizing existing programs such as brand inspections, health certificates, brucellosis tags, tuberculosis tags, etc. for disease mitigation and animal health trace back programs. USCA urges the Department of Agriculture to take a proactive approach to disease prevention by strengthening import standards rather than its current reactive approach of disease control after an outbreak occurs in the U.S.
USCA is greatly concerned about the protocol for which the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA) is following in its efforts to register emissions from confined feeding operations that hold one thousand head or more of cattle. USCA encourages efforts to adjust language in the EPA provision regulating air quality (specifically coarse air particulates) in rural areas as it has to do with normal agriculture operations.
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