[PAA-Discuss] I like the sound of this...

[Ron and Kris Graham]

Governing from the middle is a crock of crap. It's high time this government
started governing from the left if you want to call it that. I would just
like a government that is truly representative of the majority of the
people. What a novel concept!

 

I don't like this whole review of the food and drug safety with regard to
nutritional supplements. The government has been trying for some time now to
regulate nutritional supplements through the Codex Alimentus. It's simply a
way for Big Pharma to get their fat sweaty hands into the herbal medicine
industry and regulate the shit out of it. I don't need some government
bureaucrat to tell me how much of a particular herb or supplement I need.
All they want to do anyway is make it where you have to get a prescription
for something as innocuous as Vitamin E or one of the other supplements. If
there's money to be made off an industry then you can bet your sweet ass the
U.S. government will try to make as much as possible.

 

Perhaps there will be serious investigations and perhaps not. I'm not
holding my breath on any of this.

 

Kris

 

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From: Ivan Espinosa [mailto:ie3456 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 2:34 PM
To: Discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: [PAA-Discuss] I like the sound of this...

 

Here is an expert from an article that appeared in the AP this morning.  I
sure like the sound of this. Congressman Dingell needs to hit those corrupt
Republicans hard and make sure that the reckless war profiteers are
investigated thoroughly.

 

Comments anyone?

-- Ivan Espinosa

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Democrats pledge array of investigations

By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press Writer

 

WASHINGTON - The incoming chairman of the House Energy and Commerce
Committee is promising an array of oversight investigations that could
provoke sharp disagreement with Republicans and the White House.

 

Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., pledged that Democrats, swept to power in the
Nov. 7 elections, would govern "in the middle" next year. But the veteran
lawmaker has a reputation as one who has never avoided a fight and he did
not back away from that reputation on Sunday.

 

Among the investigations he said he wants the committee to undertake:

 

*	The new Medicare drug benefit. "There are lots and lots and lots of
scandals," he said, without citing specifics.
*	Spending on government contractors in Iraq,  including Halliburton
Co., the Texas-based oil services conglomerate once led by Vice President
Dick Cheney.
*	An energy task force overseen by Cheney. It "was carefully cooked to
provide only participation by oil companies and energy companies," Dingell
said.
*	A review of food and drug safety, particularly in the area of
nutritional supplements.

  

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