Representative Collins Supports Rescinding GIPSA Rules

U.S. Representative Doug Collins is joining members of the Georgia Congressional Delegation in sending a bipartisan letter to new U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, urging him to rescind the  Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration or “GIPSA” rules issued in the eleventh hour of the Obama Administration.

The letter was sent to Perdue on Friday.

Collins and other opponents of the rule claim it puts too many regulations on livestock and poultry producers’ ability to market their animals.

In the letter, members wrote, “These rules are completely out of line with our priorities to eliminate burdensome regulations and to promote American businesses.”

They said rescinding the rules would allow livestock and poultry producers to market their animals how, when, and where they want to without GIPSA dictating the transactions.

Additiionally, the letter urges Secretary Perdue to review and rescind three poultry-related regulations they claim would inflict billions of dollars of economic harm on American agriculture, exceed GIPSA’s statutory authority, and represent an arbitrary and capricious abuse of federal regulatory authority.