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reality writes on the TCPalm blog site:

Republicans Tom Rooney and Bill Posey voted against permanently extending security requirements on some 6000 chemical plants (Stuart news 11-8-09, p.B3) The rules requiring makers and storers of chemicals to make plans to prevent & respond to terrorist attacks, do background check on employees, and allow Dept.of Homeland security inspections, were due to expire next year. The same bill Posey and Rooney voted NO to, also requires public & private sewage treatment facilities to do similar things, and the EPA to have a security program for drinking water facilities too. Why would Rooney and Posey say NO to such Common Sense rules? Previously Rooney voted NO to increased government scrutiny of companies that process and distribute large amounts of food products. If I understood Rooney's response then, he worried about frivolous lawsuits by consumers against food processors, and food plants shutting down for what might turn out to be no good reason. Today, the Stuart News Opinion has Rooney joking about the Steelers and Vikings game, and the usual ad for Rooney's blog. I wish instead he would explain his NO vote for our security here, even as he urges sending more Americans into the meat grinder of Afghanistan. At what cost? What is the CBO estimate of that? On the House floor, Rooney denounced the Trillion $ cost of health reform here at home, but leaves out that that cost should be divided by 10 years. Has the Stuart news asked Rooney and Posey what has been the cost of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? And does Rooney know the numbers of dead and wounded in each war, so far, as the Stuart news omits such info? The claim of local focus falls false, though, as Pittsburgh and Minnesota are far from here, as are most of the Celebrities on p.2, section 1.

Labels: Repubs Rooney and Posey vote NO to chemical, water plant rules