Supplement Adverse Event Reporting Bill passes-Rulemaking to follow

[Guest guest]

IAHF List: I want to personally THANK all of you for the phone calls, faxes,

and emails you folks so diligently sent to Congress in opposition to the bad

AER bill- S.3546.

Old African saying: " Some must watch, while some must sleep. " National

Health Federation's lobbyist Lee Bechtel was up all night watching C-Span and

he

assisted me with this report, which is how I know exactly what happened at

3:06 am eastern time

Here is what happened late last night while we were all asleep. I don't

want you to despair when you read my report, I want you to fully understand

what

happened, and what we have to do next- because only one HALF of the FAT LADY

has sung- and I'll explain what I mean by that in a minute because there

are STILL things we can do to protect our access to supplements. Until the

Congressional Record comes out on monday, we won't know what transpired during

the

40 minute debate that took place on the floor, so that part of it you'll

have to wait for------>

FIRST THE BAD NEWS- THEN THE GOOD NEWS

Refer to _http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html_

(http://clerk.house.gov/floorsummary/floor.html)

1:33 A.M. -

DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on _S. 3546_

(http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/lgwww_bill.pl?603546) .

Considered under suspension of the rules.

1:42 A.M. -

At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered.

Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that

further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.

TRANSLATION: We got screwed in an unrecorded voice vote which we lost at

1:33 am, but Congressmen Ron (R-TX), Dan Burton (R-IN), Pete Sessions(

R-TX), and Tom Price (R-GA) objected to the bill not having a Roll Call Vote

because they wanted the public to be able to see how people voted so they

demanded that the vote be held again- this time as a Roll Call Vote- so thats

why

the vote was held again at 3:06 am.

3:06 A.M. -

Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and

Nays: (2/3 required): 203 - 98 _(Roll no. 543_

(http://clerk.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.asp?year=2006 & rollnumber=543) ).

As you can see from the table below, we got screwed mostly by the Democrats

who voted for the bad bill by 134 yeas, to just 69 coming from Republicans,

with 132 people not voting. Please hold your own Congressman accountable if he

or she voted the wrong way despite your efforts. Let 'em know you're pissed,

but if they voted correctly, please THANK them!!

With Democrats Waxman and Dingell now being back in charge of the

Subcommittee and Full Committee where all health legislation originates before

moving

to the floor of the House- this does not bode well for vitamin consumers, and

we're going to have to work VERY HARD to cultivate ALLIES amongst the

freshman Congressmen whose first term in office begins in January. For that and

other reasons cited at the end of this report, I will need your URGENT SUPPORT

to

be able to get back to DC for more work.

See how your congressman voted below, following which I will present you

with THE GOOD NEWS....

_http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll543.xml_

(http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll543.xml) FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL

543(Republicans in roman;

Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

S 3546 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY 9-Dec-2006 3:06 AM

QUESTION: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

BILL TITLE: Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection

Act

_Yeas_ (mip://00e1e018/#Y) _Nays_ (mip://00e1e018/#N) PRES _NV_

(mip://00e1e018/#NV) Republican 69 94 67 Democratic 134 4 64 Independent

1

TOTALS 203 98 132

---- YEAS 203 ---

Abercrombie

Ackerman

Aderholt

s

Baca

Baird

Baldwin

Barrow

Barton (TX)

Bean

Becerra

Berkley

Berman

Biggert

Bilbray

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (NY)

Boehlert

Bono

Boren

Boswell

Boyd

Brady (PA)

Burgess

Butterfield

Buyer

Calvert

Camp (MI)

Cannon

Capito

Capps

Capuano

Cardin

Carnahan

Carson

Castle

Chabot

Chandler

Cleaver

Clyburn

Crenshaw

Crowley

Cuellar

Cummings

(CA)

(FL)

(TN)

DeLauro

-Balart, M.

Doggett

Doolittle

Dreier

Ehlers

Emanuel

Engel

Eshoo

Etheridge

Everett

Ferguson

Fortenberry

Fossella

(MA)

Gilchrest

Granger

Green (WI)

Green, Al

Green, Gene

Hastert

Hastings (WA)

Herseth

Hinchey

Hobson

Holt

Honda

Hoyer

Hulshof

Hunter

Inslee

Israel

(IL)

-Lee (TX)

(CT)

, E. B.

(OH)

Kanjorski

Keller

Kennedy (RI)

Kildee

Kind

King (NY)

Kirk

Kucinich

LaHood

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Latham

Lee

Levin

(GA)

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Lowey

Lungren, E.

Lynch

Mack

Maloney

Matheson

McCarthy

McCollum (MN)

McDermott

McGovern

McHugh

McIntyre

McKeon

McNulty

Meek (FL)

Meeks (NY)

Melancon

Michaud

(MI)

(NC)

(KS)

(WI)

Nadler

Napolitano

Northup

Oberstar

Obey

Olver

Osborne

Pallone

Payne

Pelosi

Pombo

Pomeroy

Porter

Price (NC)

Rahall

Ramstad

Rangel

Regula

Reichert

Reyes

(KY)

(MI)

Rohrabacher

Ross

Rothman

Roybal-Allard

Ruppersberger

Rush

Sabo

Salazar

Sánchez, T.

Schakowsky

Schiff

Schmidt

Schwartz (PA)

(GA)

(VA)

Serrano

Shays

Sherman

Shimkus

Sires

Skelton

(NJ)

(WA)

Snyder

Spratt

Stupak

Tanner

Tauscher

(MS)

Terry

(MS)

Tierney

Towns

Udall (CO)

Udall (NM)

Upton

Van Hollen

Visclosky

Walden (OR)

Walsh

Wasserman Schultz

Watt

Weiner

Weldon (FL)

Weller

Wolf

Woolsey

Wu

Wynn

---- NAYS 98 ---

Akin

Bachus

Barrett (SC)

Bartlett (MD)

Bishop (UT)

Blackburn

Blunt

Boehner

Bonner

Boozman

Boustany

Bradley (NH)

Brady (TX)

Brown (SC)

Brown-Waite, Ginny

(CA)

Cantor

Chocola

Cole (OK)

Conaway

DeFazio

Dent

Drake

Duncan

Fitzpatrick (PA)

Flake

Forbes

Foxx

s (AZ)

Garrett (NJ)

Gingrey

Gohmert

Goode

Goodlatte

Graves

Gutknecht

Hall

Hart

Hayworth

Hensarling

Hoekstra

Hostettler

Inglis (SC)

Issa

Istook

Jindal

Kennedy (MN)

King (IA)

Kingston

Kline

Knollenberg

Kuhl (NY)

LaTourette

(KY)

Lofgren, Zoe

Lucas

Manzullo

Marchant

McCaul (TX)

McCotter

McHenry

Mc Rodgers

(FL)

Moran (KS)

Musgrave

Myrick

Neugebauer

Pearce

Pence

(MN)

Platts

Poe

Price (GA)

Putnam

Rehberg

Renzi

(AL)

Royce

(WI)

Sekula Gibbs

Sessions

Shadegg

Sherwood

Sodrel

Souder

Sullivan

Thornberry

Tiahrt

Tiberi

Westmoreland

Wexler

(NM)

(SC)

---- NOT VOTING 132 ---

Baker

Bass

Beauprez

Berry

Bilirakis

Blumenauer

Bonilla

Boucher

Brown (OH)

Brown, Corrine

Burton (IN)

Cardoza

Case

Clay

Coble

Conyers

Costa

Costello

Cramer

Cubin

Culberson

(AL)

(IL)

(KY)

, Jo Ann

, Tom

Deal (GA)

DeGette

Delahunt

-Balart, L.

Dicks

Dingell

Doyle

Emerson

English (PA)

Farr

Fattah

Feeney

Filner

Ford

Frelinghuysen

Gallegly

Gerlach

Gibbons

Gillmor

Gordon

Grijalva

Gutierrez

Harman

Hastings (FL)

Hefley

Herger

Higgins

Hinojosa

Holden

Hooley

Hyde

Jefferson

(IL)

, Sam

(NC)

Kaptur

Kilpatrick (MI)

Kolbe

Lantos

Larson (CT)

Leach

(CA)

Linder

Markey

Marshall

Matsui

McCrery

McKinney

Meehan

Mica

Millender-Mc

,

,

Mollohan

Moran (VA)

Murtha

Neal (MA)

Norwood

Nunes

Nussle

Ortiz

Otter

Owens

Oxley

Pascrell

Pastor

(PA)

Petri

Pickering

Pitts

Pryce (OH)

Radanovich

Reynolds

Ros-Lehtinen

(OH)

Ryun (KS)

, Loretta

Saxton

Schwarz (MI)

Sensenbrenner

Shaw

Shuster

Simpson

Slaughter

(TX)

Solis

Stark

Stearns

Strickland

Sweeney

Tancredo

(NC)

(CA)

Velázquez

Wamp

Waters

Waxman

Weldon (PA)

Whitfield

Wicker

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

____________________________________

THE GOOD NEWS:

The good news is that only ONE HALF of the FAT LADY has SUNG.

Translation: The statute is only one HALF of the LAW- the OTHER half comes

in the form of RULEMAKING by the Federal Agency that must enforce the law (in

this case the FDA).

It could take YEARS before the FDA gets around to drafting a final rule on

this bill, consider DSHEA for a minute- DSHEA passed into law 12 years ago,

and FDA still hasn't fully implemented it.

Moreover, we can have INPUT into the FDA's rulemaking. FDA will hold a

public hearing where we can have input, and if we object strenuously to part of

their proposed rule, and they fail to listen to us, and it results in BAD

THINGS happening which negatively impact our ACCESS, we can go back to Hatch

and

Harkin and others in Congress and we can DEMAND that they FIX IT by drafting

an amendment.

The good news is that even though the SMARMY BASTARDS SCREWED US at 3:06

am, they're still MUGGABLE and we can STILL take steps to PROTECT OURSELVES.

WHY IAHF NEEDS YOUR HELP TO GET BACK TO DC IN JANUARY

1. We just got our clocks cleaned in this vote.

I need to get to DC in January to THANK those who HELPED us in this vote, to

EDUCATE those who opposed us and to explain why they shouldn't have voted

the way they did, and I especially need to meet the new first term Congressmen

and new Senators so we can cultivate some badly needed ALLIES! I also need to

get back because the FDA finally responded to that letter that I got

congressman to put on his letterhead (which I got 4 other congressmen to

sign).

The letter was to then acting FDA Commissioner Von Echenbach, (unfortunately

the Senate confirmed him last Friday so he's the new Commissioner). The

letter demanded to know how FDA considers their Trilateral ation Charter

(With Canada/ Mexico) to be in any way LEGAL.

(See my petition about this and please sign it:

_http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body_

(http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/373269232#body)

FDA has very creatively responded with a masterpiece of SPIN that I am now

getting some legal help in INTERPRETING so we can continue OPPOSING THIS

illegal measure which threatens to harmonize the food and drug regs between US/

Canada/ Mexico as part of the ruling elite plan to DESTROY all 3 nations and to

force them together into an EU type structure where all of our rights would

be stripped from us and we'd be harm-onized FURTHER to CODEX restrictions

which are clearly part of a Global Eugenics/Genocide agenda to cull our

numbers.

For donations of $25 we'll send a copy of Byron 's book

FIGHT FOR YOUR HEALTH- EXPOSING THE FDA's BETRAYAL OF AMERICA(see photo of

front cover of the book at the top of this mssg)

For $50. we'll send the book, plus 's documentary film " We

Become Silent " about the Codex vitamin issue.For $100. we'll send the above +

an

IAHF Bumper Sticker.

For $200. or more we'll send the above + an autographed photo suitable for

framing of Hammell swimming in a hole cut in the ice of a frozen pond.

The photo helps anyone who sees it to increase their resolve to be stronger

than any hardship you may ever face.

Please help us get back to DC so we can do our work!

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Please forward this widely, and encourage more people to sign on to the IAHF

email distribution list. Win or Lose we are ALWAYS in YOUR CORNER assisting

YOU in protecting your access to supplements. Although it is always tough to

lose any hard fight, we must get back on our horses and keep riding and

remember- in this case- only one HALF of the fat lady has sung!!

For Health Freedom, C. Hammell, President International Advocates for

Health Freedom 556 Boundary Bay Road Point , WA 98281-8702 USA

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