[Texgreen] STILL URGENT: Dietary supplement bill update: keep it from being attached as a rider to NIH bill

[margaret]

This just in from Norm Singleton in Congressman Paul's office:
the people who are pushing the bad AER bill are frustrated that
Boehner hasn't put it on the calendar, so they might try attaching
it as a rider to the NIH Reauthorization bill (a voluminous piece of
legislation.

WHAT WE MUST DO-

In addition to taking the steps discussed in the last alert sent out 
today go to
http://www.ymlp.com/pubarchive_show_message.php?jham+538

Use provided message and fax it in 24/7 today and tomorrow (Friday). 
They could move
on it at 3am Saturday morning for all we know. Price of freedom = 
eternal vigilance!

Also fax to your own Congressman; look up fax at http://www.house.gov

Follow your fax with a phone call (Capitol Switchboard 202-225-3121)

Get your friends/family to help! Contact as many people as possible 
about this, we only have today and tomorrow (Friday December 8th) to 
kill this because the Lame Duck session ends Friday. It's ok to fax and 
call 24/7. If you call after hours there is someone working at Capitol 
switchboard who will transfer you to voice mail of any Congressional 
office that you ask for.

Please ALSO call your representative via 202-225-3121 Capital 
Switchboard
24/7, and tell them this:

"I want to kill HR 6168, the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug
Consumer Protection Act and understand that some are frustrated that
Congressman Boehner (pronounced Bayner) hasn't put it on the calendar,
so some are trying to attach it as a RIDER to the NIH REAUTHORIZATION 
BILL.
DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN!! This bill badly needs a hearing. There is 
language
in it that must be changed. Do not pass it in the middle of the night 
attached
to something as thick as the Manhattan telephone directory unless you 
want
me to work tirelessly against you for the rest of your career til you 
are
driven from office."

HR 6168 MUST BE KILLED!!

"A large sector of the Dietary Supplement industry including Solgar,
Nutraceutical Corp, Nature's Plus, Life Extension Foundation, Wellness
Resources and many other companies oppose HR 6168 Dietary Supplement
and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act. This legislation has
nothing in it to determine causality of an adverse event. Safe dietary
supplements would be wrongly blamed for problems actually caused
by pharmaceutical drugs taken concurrently with one or more dietary
supplements - and there would be no medical or scientific review 
required
by FDA before they could release the flawed "data" released by this 
witch
hunt. This would be a trial lawyers dream, but it's not good government
and it would do nothing to protect the public health. There must be
hearings on this legislation, and there must be changes made to its
language before it would actually serve its intended purpose. Do not ram
it through on us during the lame duck - if you do, you will enrage the 
millions
of dietary supplement users who flooded Congress with more mail during 
the
campaign to pass DSHEA than Congress ever received in its history on
ANY issue."

For Health Freedom, John C. Hammell, President
International Advocates for Health Freedom
556 Boundary Bay Road
Point Roberts, WA 98281-8702
http://www.iahf.com
   jham@iahf.com
800-333-2553 N.America
360-945-0352 World