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Kaine comments on Senate passage of Making America’s Food Safer Act

More evidence that most of us agree on 95 percent of things: Tim Kaine is touting passage of a Senate bill that he is working up along with Tommy Tuberville.

Kaine, Tuberville and another MAGA senator, Bill Cassidy, are shepherding legislation styled the Making America’s Food Safer Act through Congress.

The bill passed the Senate unanimously on Tuesday, and now heads to the House, which is on another vacation.

“No one should be in a grocery store aisle having to wonder whether the food in their cart is going to make them ill. Protecting Americans from contaminated food, faulty products, and other dangerous items is one of the most basic regulatory responsibilities the government has,” Kaine said in a statement on Tuesday.

“This bipartisan legislation will make the food supply chain more efficient, improve coordination between the federal government and state and local entities about food safety — all the more important in the context of recent outbreaks of foodborne illness — and help keep dangerous products off U.S. shelves. I am grateful to my Senate colleagues for supporting this common-sense, bipartisan legislation,” Kaine said.

The Making America’s Food Safer Act would: