McCain Supplement Bill

[Guest guest]

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