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Donatealittle, alot In the 10 days since Supreme Court Justice Antonin death, politicians of both parties have been forced to square their current positions on whether or not to confirm resident Barack Oba- promised nominee to ucceed Scalia with their past statements on the subject. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R- who now favors leaving the nomination to Oba- successor, has been confronted with a 45-year- old law review article in which he suggested that it i for a president to exercise his constitutional right to make a nomination. Now Vice President Joe Biden, who called on Senate Republicans last week to take up the Obama nominee, who is being confronted with his past. C-SPAN on Monday posted a clip of a sprawling 90-minute address then-Sen. Biden delivered on June 25, 1992, on the subject of reforming the Supreme Court confirmation process.

Biden, in his ourth term and serving as udiciary Committee hairman, spoke in anticipation of the end of term that year the traditional season for justices to announce retirements. And if such a retirement came to pass, he said, President George H. W. Bush should name anominee until after the November election is and, if he did, Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until after the political campaign season is consideration of a nominee under these circumstances is not fair to the president, to the nominee, or to the Senate Biden said. the nation should be treated to a consideration of constitutional philosophy, all it will get in such cir- umstances is partisan ickering and political osturing from both parties and from both ends of Pennsylvania It is hard to argue that we are not now, as Biden put it, the full throes of an election And embedded in the roughly 20,000 words he delivered that day were rebuttals to virtually every point emocrats has brought forth in the past week to argue to the consideration of nominee.

am sure, Mr. President, after having uttered these words some will criticize such a decision and say it was nothing more than an attempt to ave the seat on the Court in the hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention, Mr. President, if that were the course to choose in the Senate to not consider holding hearings until after the election. Instead, it would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is under way, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over. That is what i fair to the nominee and i central to the process.

therwise, it seems to me, Mr. President, we will be in deep trouble as an institution. may fret that this approach would leave the Court with only eight members for some time, but as I see it, Mr. President, the cost of such a result the need to reargue hree or four cases that will divide the Justices four to four are quite minor compared to the cost that a nominee, the President, the Senate, and the Nation would have to pay for what would as- suredly be a bitter fight, no matter how good a person is nominated by the President, if that nomination were to take place in the next several weeks. In the end, this may be the only course of action that historical practice and practical realism can sus- udiciary Committee hairman Charles E.

Grassley, R-Iowa, came to the Senate floor Monday afternoon to deliver fulsome praise for Biden and the newly-unearthed speech. the principle that matters, not the Grassley said, before setting out the the Senate ought to a bide by: no presidential Supreme Court nominations in an election year, and if there is such a nomination, that the Senate ought to not even holding a hearing on the nominee. Biden in Bar SCOTUSnominations MIKE DEBONIS WASHINGTON POST AP C-SPAN posted a clip of hen-Sen. Joe Biden speaking on reforming the Supreme Court confirmation process. no longer present, and the National Chicken Council, atrade group, defends the limited use of antibiotics address disease, and not to promote Still, though, companies are striving to assure customers their chicken rarely or never encounters antibiotics.

Perdue A ligning itself with a trend in the poultry industry, Allen Harim Foods announced its farmers now feed their chickens only vegetarian feed. The three brands of chicken have been switched to all-vegetarian feed meet rising consumer demand for quality, fresh and healthy poultry Allen Harim said in a statement announcing the change. The modern poultry industry has long relied partly on animal by-product feed, made from ground and processed byproducts of slaughterhouses, for feeding birds raised by its farmers. Those kinds of feeds can be a key source of protein, and they remain widely used on the market. An example: Nutrena, an animal feed company, tells customers its Country Feeds brand contains animal by-products because are a good source of amino acids (protein), energy, calcium and At the same time, the company also sells a NatureWise brand of vegetarian feed.

In recent years, some poultry companies have switched to vegetarian feeds, relying on soybeans for protein instead. Perdue Farms and Bell Evans, among others, already inform consumers their chickens have been raised exclusively on vegetarian feed. The way the mass market for chicken is structured, integrators like Seaford-based Allen Harim direct individual farms exactly which kinds of feed to use for the chicken that gets sent to Allen plants for slaughtering and packaging. Allen Harim also announced it will market one of its several brands of packaged chicken, Sensation, as made from birds that have never been given antibiotics. The company unveiled a new logo highlighting that feature.

With that pledge, the company is straddling an industrywide debate over whether antibiotics are essential to raising chicken on a large scale or whether consumers who distrust their use are in the right. Federal regulations are meant to insure birds given antibiotics to prevent disease are kept from processing long enough that the drugs are Farms, a competitor of Allen endedrou- tine use of antibiotics in 2014. In a statement, Perdue says that 95 percent of its birds never touch human antibiotics; it continues some use of iono- sphores, an animal-only antibiotic, to hold back intestinal diseases. In addi- tion, Perdue markets two brands of chicken as no- antibiotics-ever products. Tyson Foods, a worldwide supplier of poultry, beef and pork, has said it aims to eliminatethe use of human antibiotics in its broiler chicken flocks by 2017.

are responding to what our customers are telling us about consumers and their desire to buy healthy Allen Harim CEO Steve Evans said about the no-antibiotics pledge for one of its packaged lines. Allen Harim employs more than 1,600 people in the United States, as well as more than 230 independent growers and 20 company farms across Delmarva. Contact James Fisher a (302) 983-6772 or jfish- Allen Harim chickens getting all-vegetarian feed JAMES FISHER THE NEWS JOURNAL COURTESY OF ALLEN HARIM Allen Harim is marketing a brand of chicken, Nature's ensation, as raised without any antibiotic use..