The U.S. House of Representatives will consider the Senate’s genetically modified organism food labeling bill, the so-called GMO labeling bill, this week. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, announced the House would consider the bill before the chamber adjourns Friday until September. The House Rules Committee will meet to consider the legislation Tuesday (this) afternoon, before the measure will be considered by the full chamber, according to the Hagstrom Report. The bill is a bipartisan compromise written by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas and ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, but the bill is technically an amendment to a House bill. House Agriculture Committee Chair Mike Conaway, a Texas Republican, said last week that he finds the legislation to be “problematic,” but offered his support to the amendment. Conaway said he “will never fully support federally mandating,” but added that it was his “intention to support the bill.”
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