Well it did state that the House members were approuched by the Potato Lobby.

Potato lobby.  I knew about gun lobby, liquir lobby, farmers lobby, insurance lobby, bank lobby.

This is the first time I heard of Potato lobby.  This is just another effort by lobbyists to cut out a department of governments teeth, so they would have more bark and less power to override bad things.

You've never heard of the farm lobby in the United States?  They're seriously one of the most powerful lobbies in government, although having a relatively limited agenda (in particular protection of agricultural protections, such as agricultural subsidies).

You forgot about that whole "crushes economies of developing nations by flooding markets of the very goods which those nations would otherwise be producing... agricultural products..." but yeah. 

"Brondo has what plants crave.  It has electrolytes."

If nobody knows the referance, it's from the movie, Idiocracy.  In the movie, it shows that a coporation had purchased the FDA, and made they're own rules to sell their product without government interferance.

When the lobbyists take control of congress, be afraid.  Be very very afraid.  Because we will turn down that path that corporations will take over government offices and rewrite the rules to our own detrimant.  And we will be living in a world of Idiocracy.

The regulatory committees were supposed to have teeth, in order to insure the protection of consumers.  From what i've seen in the last two years is that democrats usually try to empower these government offices with teeth to deal with companies that don't deal fairly with the consumer or public interests.  However the Republicans in the House, attempt to unilaterally remove all powers from those agencies, in which case why do we have agencies that have no power.

You take away those powers of agencies to deal with corporations, then their nothing but eyes and ears which tell the "problems" to congress.  Unfortunately Congressional republicans do not see problems.  They see their re-election coffers fill back up for doing what the corporations wanted.  Unrestricted commerce, and to deal unfailry with public interests, safety, and health.

Not surprising; it appears that your knowledge of governance in the USA is as horribly lacking as your ability to perform formal logic computations in that 'ol noggin of yours.

Some regulatory agencies are so bad that they require entrenched businesses to vote on whether or not there's a "need" for competition in their areas. Obviously, short of bribes swaying their opinion, they always vote that no, they can handle more business with less competition.

These agencies have plenty of teeth. They're just not aimed at things like "consumer safety" or the other legitimate purposes they were supposedly created to achieve.

The notion that Republicans are the problem and Democrats are "fighting the good fight," so to speak, is laughably ignorant. Both parties are full of corrupt politicians -- that's how the legislation you demonize (supposedly gutting these agencies of "teeth" got passed in the first place. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the Presidency for the first two years of Obama's first term.

Did you hear a single word about fixing these problems you blame on Republicans alone? No. In fact, they made exactly these problems (government regulatory agencies protecting entrenched businesses) much worse with the Affordable Care Act!

Key, I'm going to have to ignore you completely. You're like a caricature of the ignorant, yet arrogant know-it-all who is eager to tell you his opinion on things he knows absolutely nothing about. Nobody can be this naive and ignorant, yet so eager to share his nonsensical perceptions. I'm going to presume you're trolling and not encourage you. God help you if you're not.