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

1:33 A.M. -
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on S. 3546.

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 Paul (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).

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

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 Nays PRES NV
Republican 69 94 67
Democratic 134 4 64
Independent 1
TOTALS 203 98 132





---- YEAS 203 ---

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Aderholt
Allen
Andrews
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
Cooper
Crenshaw
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (FL)
Davis (TN)
DeLauro
Diaz-Balart, M.
Doggett
Doolittle
Dreier
Edwards
Ehlers
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Everett
Ferguson
Fortenberry
Fossella
Frank (MA)
Gilchrest
Gonzalez
Granger
Green (WI)
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Harris
Hastert
Hastings (WA)
Herseth
Hinchey
Hobson
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Hulshof
Hunter
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (CT)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Keller
Kelly
Kennedy (RI)
Kildee
Kind
King (NY)
Kirk
Kucinich
LaHood
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Latham
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Lowey
Lungren, Daniel E.
Lynch
Mack
Maloney
Matheson
McCarthy
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McIntyre
McKeon
McNulty
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Melancon
Michaud
Miller (MI)
Miller (NC)
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Murphy
Nadler
Napolitano
Northup
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Osborne
Pallone
Payne
Pelosi
Pombo
Pomeroy
Porter
Price (NC)
Rahall
Ramstad
Rangel
Regula
Reichert
Reyes
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Ross
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Sabo
Salazar
Sánchez, Linda T.
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schmidt
Schwartz (PA)
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shays
Sherman
Shimkus
Simmons
Sires
Skelton
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Spratt
Stupak
Tanner
Tauscher
Taylor (MS)
Terry
Thomas
Thompson (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
Alexander
Bachus
Barrett (SC)
Bartlett (MD)
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Blunt
Boehner
Bonner
Boozman
Boustany
Bradley (NH)
Brady (TX)
Brown (SC)
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Campbell (CA)
Cantor
Carter
Chocola
Cole (OK)
Conaway
DeFazio
Dent
Drake
Duncan
Fitzpatrick (PA)
Flake
Forbes
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Garrett (NJ)
Gingrey
Gohmert
Goode
Goodlatte
Graves
Gutknecht
Hall
Hart
Hayes
Hayworth
Hensarling
Hoekstra
Hostettler
Inglis (SC)
Issa
Istook
Jenkins
Jindal
Kennedy (MN)
King (IA)
Kingston
Kline
Knollenberg
Kuhl (NY)
LaTourette
Lewis (KY)
Lofgren, Zoe
Lucas
Manzullo
Marchant
McCaul (TX)
McCotter
McHenry
McMorris Rodgers
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Musgrave
Myrick
Neugebauer
Pearce
Pence
Peterson (MN)
Platts
Poe
Price (GA)
Putnam
Rehberg
Renzi
Rogers (AL)
Royce
Ryan (WI)
Sekula Gibbs
Sessions
Shadegg
Sherwood
Sodrel
Souder
Sullivan
Thornberry
Tiahrt
Tiberi
Turner
Westmoreland
Wexler
Wilson (NM)
Wilson (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
Davis (AL)
Davis (IL)
Davis (KY)
Davis, Jo Ann
Davis, Tom
Deal (GA)
DeGette
Delahunt
Diaz-Balart, L.
Dicks
Dingell
Doyle
Emerson
English (PA)
Evans
Farr
Fattah
Feeney
Filner
Ford
Frelinghuysen
Gallegly
Gerlach
Gibbons
Gillmor
Gordon
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Hefley
Herger
Higgins
Hinojosa
Holden
Hooley
Hyde
Jefferson
Johnson (IL)
Johnson, Sam
Jones (NC)
Kaptur
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kolbe
Lantos
Larson (CT)
Leach
Lewis (CA)
Linder
Markey
Marshall
Matsui
McCrery
McKinney
Meehan
Mica
Millender-McDonald
Miller, Gary
Miller, George
Mollohan
Moran (VA)
Murtha
Neal (MA)
Norwood
Nunes
Nussle
Ortiz
Otter
Owens
Oxley
Pascrell
Pastor
Paul
Peterson (PA)
Petri
Pickering
Pitts
Pryce (OH)
Radanovich
Reynolds
Ros-Lehtinen
Ryan (OH)
Ryun (KS)
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanders
Saxton
Schwarz (MI)
Sensenbrenner
Shaw
Shuster
Simpson
Slaughter
Smith (TX)
Solis
Stark
Stearns
Strickland
Sweeney
Tancredo
Taylor (NC)
Thompson (CA)
Velázquez
Wamp
Waters
Watson
Waxman
Weldon (PA)
Whitfield
Wicker
Young (AK)
Young (FL)





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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 Paul 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 Cooperation 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

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 Richard'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 Kevin Miller'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 John 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!!





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