Re: Fw: Your Victory on the McCain Bill

March 5, 2010

That is awesome. I am so glad to hear this. Will be looking for more

updates!

-- [ ] Fw: Your Victory on the McCain Bill

March 5, 2010

Your Victory on the McCain Bill

We did it!

It's all thanks to the action that you took.

Hundreds of thousands of messages poured into the Senate opposing Senator

McCain's bill, the bill that would have wiped out current legislative

protections for dietary supplements. More and more messages were arriving by

the day. The entire Congress began to take note. Senator McCain was

embarrassed by our ad whose headline pointed out that he was misrepresenting

and did not seem to understand his own bill.

Word is now racing around Capitol Hill that Senator McCain met with Senator

Orin Hatch, a champion of natural medicine, and told him that he is

withdrawing his support for the bill he authored, the so-called Dietary

Supplement Safety Act (S 3002). This means that the bill as written is now

dead.

Is this the end of the story? No. Having given his word to a fellow senator,

McCain is not likely to resume his support for the bill. But we do need to

see a declaration from McCain himself. We will need to see if McCain will

try to offer some modified version of the bill. And there has also been no

word from the other co-sponsor of the bill, Senator Dorgan.

We will keep you posted. In the meantime, it is time to celebrate your

accomplishment. The democratic process worked. The people spoke and a

powerful senator reversed course. It was all because of you, the active

citizens willing to take time and make the effort to defend natural and

sustainable forms of health and healthcare in the often hostile environment

of Washington, DC. As we all know, Washington is ringed today with special

commercial interests. They have millions of dollars of campaign

contributions to hand out and gigantic lobbying budgets. But in the end,

politicians have to answer to the people.

Thank you!

Gretchen DuBeau, Executive Director

Hunter , President

Alliance for Natural Health USA

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