Amish raw-milk farmers beware: as Mike Riggs reports at Reason, Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky introduced an amendment that would have curtailed the power of Food and Drug Administration agents to carry firearms and make warrantless arrests — the agency would still have retained many other legal weapons with which to secure compliance with its will — but the amendment failed by a 78-15 vote. The 15 are listed here.
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Cato Institute
Individual liberty, free markets, and peace: the world's premier libertarian think tank. Publishes Cato at Liberty, where I blog on contemporary policy issues.
Schools for Misrule
Get your copy today! My new book tackles the question of why so many bad ideas come from the law schools. "Cutting-edge commentary, hard-hitting, witty, astute." -- Publisher's Weekly. "Excellent... A fine dissection of these strangely powerful institutions" -- Wall Street Journal.
{ 3 comments }
why shouldn’t the FDA have a SWAT team, right? Everyone else does!
Is there any information on why the 85 opposing senators voted as they did? Do they argue that the FDA does need to be armed? Or is it perhaps because of opposition to the other component of the amendment, which allows food advertisements to make claims about health benefits?
Congress fails to limit the power of a Federal agency? That’s unprecedented!
Comments on this entry are closed.