Republicans vote down farm bill amendment enabling lawsuits against pesticide companies, a blow to MAHA

Senate Republicans on Thursday voted down an amendment that sought to open up Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies over the health impacts of their products. 

The amendment to the Senate farm bill failed in a party-line vote.

While the measure was backed by all of the Senate Agriculture Committee’s Democrats and none of its Republicans, it’s also a blow to pesticide critics in the right-wing “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement. 

It’s something that MAHA-aligned GOP members of the House are also pushing for. 

The amendment, brought by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), would have clarified that pesticide labeling requirements in the nation’s pesticide law do not block a person’s ability to sue........

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