3 health freedom bills

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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.

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http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Health-Government-Reform-Bills-by-Ron-.\

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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 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 '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. '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-.\

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