From: lifeextension@...(Life Extension) Subject: Take Action
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Dear Life Extension® supporter,

Life Extension would like to keep you informed of three health and
government reform bills being presented that may help preserve your
health freedoms.

Take action now!:
http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Health-Government-Reform-Bills-by-Ron-Paul.\
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LifeExtension

CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL INTRODUCES 3 BILLS TO RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL
GOVERNMENT; END FDA CENSORSHIP OF HEALTH CLAIMS; AND END FTC CENSORSHIP
OF HEALTH INFORMATION

Washington, D.C.: Today on the floor of the House of Representatives,
Congressman Ron Paul introduced three bills that would restore
constitutional government; end FDA censorship of health claims; and end
FTC censorship of health information.

HR 3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act. This
bill prohibits regulations promulgated from regulatory agencies from
going into effect unless passed into law by Congress in the way in which
the Constitution designates. Under Article I of the Constitution, the
Congress of the United States, our elected representatives, are the ones
given the exclusive power to make laws. In violation of the
non-delegation doctrine, about 90% of all law created by the federal
government is the product of unelected heads of bureaucratic agencies,
not our elected representatives. From 1934 to the present, the Congress
of the United States has delegated executive, legislative, and judicial
governing power to these agencies. The founding fathers warned that this
combination would give birth to tyranny, self-dealing, and corruption
and would be the death of liberty. Because the unelected bureaucracy
makes the laws, the nation has been transformed from a republic into a
bureaucratic oligarchy.

Congressman Ron Paul's Congressional Responsibility and Accountability
Act restores constitutional government by returning to Congress the
responsibility to make laws, thereby making them once again accountable
for the laws to those who elect them.

HR 3395: The Health Freedom Act. This bill removes FDA's power of prior
restraint over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. Under the bill,
the FDA may not prohibit any statement concerning a nutrient affecting a
disease (including treatment effects) from being made in the market and
may only act against a statement once made if it possesses clear and
convincing evidence that the statement is false. Presently the FDA
blocks an enormous quantity of truthful information concerning the
effects of nutrients and foods on disease from reaching consumers. That
barrier is removed by the Health Freedom Act, but the Act preserves the
power of the government to prosecute those who communicate falsehood.
The essential purpose of the First Amendment is to disarm the federal
government of the power to impose a prior restraint on speech. The FDA
has imposed a prior restraint for decades to the health detriment of the
public. Passage of the Health Freedom Act will restore constitutional
governance by reasserting the supremacy of the First Amendment over the
Food and Drug Administration.

HR 3394: The Health Information Protection Act. This bill prevents the
Federal Trade Commission from taking action against any advertiser that
communicates a health benefit for a product unless the FTC first
establishes based on clear and convincing evidence that the statement
made is false and that its communication causes harm to the public.
Presently, the FTC reverses the Fifth Amendment burden of proof on the
government when it charges advertisers with deceptive advertising and
then demands that they prove their speech true based on
contemporaneously held documentation or be deemed to have advertised
deceptively. The Fifth Amendment requires that FTC bear the burden of
proving advertising deceptive. It may not constitutionally shift the
burden to the advertiser to prove its statements not deceptive. The
First Amendment requires that FTC not act against speech unless the
speech is probably false. It may not constitutionally accuse a party of
false advertising yet lack proof that the advertising is false and
condemn advertising based on an absence of documentation concerning the
truth of the statement rather than the presence of evidence establishing
the falsity of the statement.

Dr. Paul's introduction of these three momentous bills offers hope to
those who presently perceive themselves as disenfranchised and seek a
return to constitutional government.

Take action now!:
http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Health-Government-Reform-Bills-by-Ron-Paul.\
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