> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Food Safety News readers are nice, but can you sing? - URL: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2018/12/food-safety-news-readers-are-nice-but-can-you-sing/ - Published: 2018-12-24T05:02:44.000Z - Updated: 2018-12-23T21:43:39.000Z - Author: Dan Flynn - Tags: Food Policy & Law, Food Politics, Government Agencies, World, Brenda Fitzgerald, Chuck Schumer, Mindy Brashears, Mitch McConnell, naughty and nice list, Pat Roberts, USDA, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-25 10:47 ###### Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town You better watch out, you better not cry You better not pout, I’m telling you why Santa Claus is comin’ to town, gather all He’s making a list and checking it twice He’s gonna find out who’s naughty and nice Santa Claus is comin’ to town He sees you when you’re sleepin’ He knows when you’re awake He knows if you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness sake You better watch out, you better not cry You better not pout, I’m telling you why Santa Claus is comin’ to town With little tin horns and little toy drums Rooty toot toots and rummy tum tums Santa Claus is comin’ to town And curly head dolls that toddle and coo Elephants, boats, and kiddie cars too Santa Claus is comin’ to town The kids in girls and boy land will have a jubilee They’re gonna build a Toyland town all around the Christmas tree You better watch out, you better not cry You better not pout, I’m telling you why Santa Claus is comin’ to town He sees you when you’re sleepin’ And he knows when you’re awake He knows if you’ve been bad or good So be good for goodness sake You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why Santa Claus is comin’ to town You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why Santa Claus is comin’ You mean, the big fat man with the long white beard He’s comin’ to town --- The Naughty and Nice list on Christmas Eve is a Food Safety News tradition. This year, we are including all Food Safety News subscribers on the Nice list. Whether you’ve been there for years or just signed up last week, please know Food Safety News values your engagement. Our Naughty list this year includes those responsible for doing the most egregious harm to food safety in the United States. The Naughty list is led by at least four U.S. Senators: Mitch McConnell, R-KY, Chuck Schumer, D-NY, Pat Roberts, R-KS, and Deborah Stabenow, D-MI. McConnell and Schumer are the Senate leaders, and Roberts and Stabenow run the Senate Agriculture Committee. The four share responsibility for the Senate’s failure in 2018 to confirm the nomination of Dr. Mindry Brashears as Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety. Her May 4th appointment did not get a hearing from the Roberts-Stabenow-run Ag Committee until Nov. 28\. And while she got a unanimous pass out of the committee on Dec. 5, but McConnell and Schumer had no time for the nation’s top food safety job for a floor vote to confirm the nomination. The country has now gone for more than 5 years without an Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate as required by law. The post is vacant. It’s duties left to top bureaucrats. The job was created to give food safety some political clout in a department dominated by its marketing and sales functions. As our only runner-up for this year’s Naughty list is Dt. Brenda Fitzgerald, who quit last January after a short stint as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Fitzgerald, who was Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Health from 2011 to 2017, got caught with financial holdings that just did not right for a CDC Director. Her trading shares in Japan Tobacco forced her exit from the organization known for fighting tobacco use. Dr. Robert R. Redfield then was named as the 18th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.