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Citizens for Sensible Safeguards (CSS)S.T.O.P. is a member of Citizens for Sensible Safeguards. Citizens for Sensible Safeguards (CSS) is a coalition consisting of almost 300 public interest organizations, including groups from labor, environmental, consumer, health, low-income, human needs, educational, and religious communities. As laid out in the CSS Statement of Principles, the coalition was created to help preserve public protections that, over the last 20 years, have made our workplaces safer, our environment cleaner, our communities healthier, and our society more accessible. With the advent of the 104th Congress and the Contract With America, federal protections have come under constant attack, being labeled as examples of "big government" and, as a result, targeted for "reform." CSS has made its principle aim the guarantee that vital community and environmental safeguards will not be sacrificed in order to reduce the size and scope of the federal government. Through grassroots networking and education, media campaigns, and Congressional and Administrative briefings, CSS has taken a lead role in educating the public on the importance of its public safeguards and defeating or modifying proposals that undermine them. Since its inception, CSS has been successful in preserving necessary safeguards on several occasions. The coalition's efforts vastly changed Contract With America provisions for unfunded mandates and reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act. It stopped a proposed regulatory moratorium that would have prevented the creation of any new public protections and stalled a comprehensive regulatory bill that would have impeded the entire regulatory process. In addition, the coalition continues to actively defend community and environmental protections against extreme budget riders and issue-specific bills that would eliminate the government's ability to issue and enforce important safeguards. Gary D. Bass, Executive Director of OMB Watch, chairs the coalition. To contact CSS, send to:
Web site: www.ombwatch.org/www/ombw/regs/regnews.html
Safe Food CoalitionS.T.O.P. is a member of the Safe Food Coalition. The Safe Food Coalition was established in January 1987 to seek action on the 1985 National Academy of Sciences report, "Meat and Poultry Inspection: The Scientific Basis of the Nation's Program." In the ensuing years the Coalition has worked to educate the public about the hazards of foodborne illness and sought Congressional and Administrative action to improve meat, poultry and seafood inspection. The Safe Food Coalition is an informal group of consumer, public health, whistleblower, senior citizen and labor organizations. Before the Coalition takes a position on any issue or submits testimony, a statement is circulated to all associated groups. Representatives of the groups edit the paper and negotiate differences that may arise. When agreement is reached, the statement or testimony is recirculated for sign-off by the groups and it understood that the statement reflects the position of the groups that sign. Members of the Safe Food Coalition include: American Public Health Association, American Association of Retired Persons, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, Environmental Information Center, Food and Allied Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, Government Accountability Project, National Consumers League, Public Citizen, Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, Safe Tables Our Priority, and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Consumers Union, which is not a formal member of the Coalition, generally signs onto Coalition statements. Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services (1977-81), serves as coordinator of the group. To contact the Safe Food Coalition send to:
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