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.
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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!