More Latest News on FDA Reform Bill (S. 830)
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 PC> From: calvert.NoSpam@eos.ncsu.edu (Phil Calvert)
 PC> Subject: SUNDAY 11/9 RED ALERT! FLOOR ACTION SCHEDULED ON FDA REFORM  
 PC> BILL S.830! Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
PC>  RED ALERT! CONGRESS IS IN SESSION TODAY, SUNDAY, and YOU MUST CALL and
 PC> GET YOUR FRIENDS TO CALL!
 PC> FLOOR ACTION SCHEDULED TODAY FOR FDA REFORM CONFERENCE REPORT
 PC> (With the exception of Ron Paul and Helen Chenoweth who are on our
 PC> side,PLEASE call your Senators and Congressman TODAY SUNDAY 11/9,
 PC> (800-972-3524) and say:
 PC> "Vote NO on the FDA Reform Conference Report. I don't want you voting
 PC> YES on something you haven't had a chance to read, and we KNOW that you
 PC> haven't had a chance to read this Conference Report because we were
 PC> just told by the Senate Labor Committee that it wasn't even FINISHED
 PC> yet, but that "a copy would be available on the floor."
 PC> "We have been lobbying hard to get the harmonization language removed,
 PC> and barring that, dietary supplements EXEMPTED from the harmonization
 PC> language, because we don't WANT our food and drug laws harmonized to
 PC> those of the EU where dietary supplements are regulated as DRUGS.
 PC> Although we were TOLD that our concerns have been addressed, and that
 PC> the language has been amended to reflect them, when Congressman Ron
 PC> Paul's office is unable to procure a copy of the conference report, and
 PC> we can't review it with his staff to our satisfaction, we just don't
 PC> KNOW whats in it and whether or not our concerns have been sufficiently
 PC> addressed. Congressman Paul is going to call for a Roll Call vote. Vote
 PC> NO! This issue is NOT going to go away."
 PC> ---------------------------------------------
 PC> It seems that our Congressional "masters" are so eager to adjourn that
 PC> many of them would actually vote in favor of a Conference Report that
 PC> they've never had the chance to read carefully and consider. Hell of a
 PC> way to run a country, wouldn't you say?? What a damnedable OUTRAGE!
 PC> This is just about the last straw.
 PC> On Wednesday I was told by the House Commerce Committee that the
 PC> Conference Committee Meeting would be "open to the public." OK, so I
 PC> hustled down to the METRO station in Silver Spring, Maryland, and
 PC> walked my butt off to get to the meeting, only to find that they were
 PC> holding it in a broom closet- in a room so small that they couldn't
 PC> even fit all the staff inside, and they wouldn't let anyone from the
 PC> public in, and only one member of the press was allowed in. So we
 PC> waited outside in the hall for 2 1/2 hours, wondering what was going
 PC> on. They finally concluded their meeting. We were told by the one
 PC> reporter who had been allowed in that "they hadn't concluded anything."
 PC> So, they are finishing things off COMPLETELY behind closed doors, with
 PC> ZERO public scrutiny, RIGHT NOW, and they are scheduled for floor
 PC> action in the House.
 PC> I just called the Senate Labor Committee, and they tell me that the
 PC> Conference Report hasn't been completed yet, but that they are
 PC> "working on it" and that "a copy will be available on the floor."
 PC> This is just "GREAT." I just returned from 3 weeks of intense lobbying
 PC> in Washington, and did my damndest to get the harmonization language
 PC> amended so as to exempt dietary supplements. Suzanne Harris and I had
 PC> concerns about several sections of this legislation. We were told by
 PC> Senator Gregg's staff that they would amend the Conference Report to
 PC> reflect our concerns, but why should we trust this sort of promise?
 PC> I will be transcribing an article by Suzanne Harris titled "S.830-
 PC> Asking the Right Questions- Getting the Right Answers" which addresses
 PC> all of our concerns regarding this legislation. I will also be
 PC> uploading the language changes we recommended. I have been out of email
 PC> contact now for the past 3 weeks due to a broken laptop. It is
 PC> important that you keep calling DC on this today, tomorrow or until
 PC> they have completed floor action in both the House and Senate. I have
 PC> updated my answering machine message and will keep updating it.
 PC> John Hammell
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 PC> International Advocates for Health Freedom
 PC> John C. Hammell, Legislative Advocate
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 PC> 800-333-2553, 954-929-2905, FAX 954-929-0507,
 PC> FAX ON DEMAND 954-927-8795,jham@concentric.net
 PC> http://www.pnc.com.au/~cafmr/hammell/index.html
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