If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That seems to be the motto of one Democratic congressman who has spent the past few months repeatedly attempting to prevent the use of federal funds to drug test job applicants for marijuana.
As more states have legalized cannabis in some form, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) has committed to enacting the modest reform as by filing it as a proposed amendment to 12 separate appropriations bills covering multiple federal agencies. So far, the GOP-controlled Rules Committee has blocked every one from getting a floor vote, but the congressman is pushing forward with more.
Most recently, Garcia filed the measure to a spending bill covering Financial Services and General Government (FSGG). The committee is set to take it up on Monday. If recent trends hold, however, the measure will likely meet the same fate as other versions that he’s sponsored to no immediate avail.
“It’s really basic for me. I mean, the country has moved way beyond this issue. It’s ridiculous that cannabis isn’t legalized federally, at the national level, in a way that I think most people in this country understand should be the case,” Garcia told Marijuana Moment in a
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