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Luna Opposes Senate Push to Reinsert Pesticide Liability Language into Farm Bill
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna criticized Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday over reports the Senate wants to reinsert a pesticide provision stripped from the House-passed farm bill last month. Luna, who successfully removed the language and had previously threatened to block the legislation, cited health concerns including cancer in children and fertility impacts.
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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna called out Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday over claims the Senate wants to strip a pesticide amendment from the House-passed farm bill. The Florida Republican wrote on X that the upper chamber is attempting to restore language shielding pesticide manufacturers from certain liability.
Luna successfully stripped the provision from the farm bill last month. The language would have blocked states and courts from penalizing pesticide companies that do not include health concerns on their labels beyond those recognized by the Environmental Protection Agency.
“We are facing a massive population decline and John Thune thinks it’s a good time to shill for pesticide manufacturers,” Luna wrote on X Monday.
She added in a separate statement, “For those who don’t know, a lot of the crap they are spraying on our food during farming IS causing cancer … especially in kids. Not to mention the KNOWN impacts on fertility. The pesticide liability shield needs to STAY OUT of the Farm Bill.
Prior to the amendment being added to the House-passed bill, Luna threatened that she and other Republican holdouts would “slaughter” the farm bill if the pesticide provisions were not stripped. The farm bill that passed the House still has an uphill battle in the Senate. The legislation has not hit the president’s desk for the first time since 2018.
It was extended in 2023. This is not the first time Luna has been at odds with Thune. Earlier this year, the Florida Republican slammed the Senate Majority Leader over the SAVE America Act, a voter identification bill, getting stalled in the Senate.
