Fw: Your Victory on the McCain Bill

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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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[Guest guest]

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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FYI...From: Alliance for Natural Health USA <c+aahf@...>Subject: Your Victory on the McCain Billasad_mj@...Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 8:06 PM

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 DirectorHunter , President

Alliance for Natural Health USA

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FYI...From: Alliance for Natural Health USA <c+aahf@...>Subject: Your Victory on the McCain Billasad_mj@...Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 8:06 PM

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 DirectorHunter , President

Alliance for Natural Health USA

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