Just as importantly, this bill restores common sense and fairness to agriculture policy. It stands up against harmful and unfair mandates like California’s Proposition 12
Randy Feenstra will oppose harmful agriculture mandates like California’s Proposition 12.
Occurrences
Feenstra, Johnson Introduce Legislation to Ensure Transparency for Fertilizer Prices
repeals the harmful Prop 12 mandate
help overturn California’s Proposition 12 mandates on Iowa hog farmers.
Evidence
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H.R. 4673 was introduced with Randy Feenstra named in the introducing clause. The bill states its purpose is to protect interstate movement of livestock-derived products and bar states from imposing production standards on out-of-state covered livestock products.
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Feenstra said California’s Prop 12 mandates threaten Iowa hog farmers and stated he helped lead legislation and voted for a Farm Bill that overturns Prop 12. His office also said he helped introduce the Save Our Bacon Act to prevent states like California and Massachusetts from setting arbitrary mandates for farmers across the country.
Assessments
The promise was framed as opposition to harmful agriculture mandates like California's Proposition 12, not necessarily successful enactment of a repeal. Feenstra materially acted in federal office by helping introduce H.R. 4673, the Save Our Bacon Act, aimed at preempting state livestock-production standards on out-of-state products, and publicly opposed Prop 12 in House Agriculture Committee context. That satisfies the promised opposition during his term.