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Call Senator Reed at 202 224 3542. He is in charge of the bills that are being heard on the floor today. It is ILLEGAL that Senator Kennedy who is in charge of the HELP committee that has sent this senate bill 1082 to the floor is seeing to fast track this legislation through the senate on a voice vote before anyone really knows what he is doing. Kennedy reported in the Congressional record on April 24 that he filed a committee report on S1082, however when the HELP committee was contacted late last Friday they were unaware of any such report and did not have one. WHICH MEANS THAT ALMOST NO SENATOR WHO IS EXPECTED TO VOTE TODAY TRULY KNOWS WHAT IS IN THE BILL. Kennedy is seeking to run a secret government and by pass the Advise and consent clause of Article Two of the US Constitution. This is NOT a Democracy !!!
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UP...anyone have an update?
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I don't think they can put the vote off for too long.... it seems like I read that this whole FDA mess was attached to some necessary funding bill, which would assure that it was voted on pretty quick. Very sneaky.
Tracy
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Con Job Unfolding; New Threat to Dietary Supplements Emerges
By Byron J. Richards, CCN May 1, 2007
On Monday, April 30, 2007, Senator Edward Kennedy, consistently stumbling on his words and unable to look up (its hard to look anyone in the eye or speak clearly when you are lying through your teeth), sought to convince the American public that bill S1082 was true and meaningful drug safety reform.
The latest information is that Kennedy and Enzi will now consider various amendments to S1082, which may last a day or two. Kennedy will evaluate these amendments, not on the basis of meaningful reform, but on the basis of how many votes he needs in order to get S1082 to pass. He is expected to reject Senator Grassley's meaningful drug-safety amendments - there could be some fireworks (tune in to C Span if you want to watch). A full Senate vote could happen tomorrow, although it is most likely to be later this week.
Don't be deceived, this is Big Pharma backed legislation concocted in close harmony with the dysfunctional FDA management team and is designed specifically to bring riskier medications onto the market with hardly any safety or effectiveness testing. As Kennedy and Enzi both stated on the floor of the Senate today - safety will now depend on the FDA linking to health care databases and looking for trends. Yes, that's right, the inept FDA will now track safety ``real time'' as the drug companies perform their experiments on the public. In other words, the practice of medicine will now officially be one large clinical trial. A New Threat to Dietary Supplements Emerges
Senator Kennedy announced that he was working with Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) to include Durbin's food safety legislation as an amendment to this already overbroad package of FDA reform. For those of you who may not know, Senator Durbin is the number one vitamin-hating senator in the Congress. His currently proposed food bill (S654) would have the net affect of repealing the DSHEA act of 1994 the (current supplement law that gives us some health freedom) and reclassifying and regulating dietary supplements as drugs. Originally, it was not included in S1082.
At this time, nobody knows what Kennedy and Durbin are crafting - but it can't be good.
Thus, health freedom and dietary supplements are now under assault from several aspects of this legislation.
Keep up the pressure and keep flooding the Senate with objection to S1082.
Related Articles: April 30, 2007 - Action & Updates April 24, 2007 - Bill Details
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How do the people of Mass. re-elect this idiot every time???
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Good question....
There are some proposed amendments to the Bill already, but they only want to delete words like "food" and "food products". I'm sorry - that isn't good enough.
From what I can gather, homeopathic remedies are viewed just like OTC drugs by the FDA, so we DO NOT WANT ANY AMENDMENTS THAT DON'T PROTECT ALL HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS, not just he ones classified as food products.
Good grief.
I just wrote to John Hahmmell of IAHF asking him to look into this!
Gotta go - thunderstorm coming! I think the Senate shenanigans can be watched on C-Span 2.
Tracy
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