Welcome to the House under Republican rule in 2011. Sounds an awful lot like the House under Gingrich rule in 1994. Do these guys ever get any new ideas?

In absolute terms, the cut to the USDA’s food inspection program may seem a lot smaller–just $100 million. But that will almost certainly mean fewer inspectors, which is no small thing. As the non-partisan organization OMB Watch has noted, in recent years the number of inspectors has not kept up with the number of food producers–and “at no other regulatory agency does the size of the inspectorate need to be so closely aligned to the size of the industry it regulates.”