Julieanne
05-30-12, 07:03 AM
May 29, 2012
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What a tremendous outpouring of grassroots activism! But we need to stay vigilant.
As you probably know by now (http://www.anh-usa.org/durbin-amendment-defeated/), your extraordinary response to our emergency Action Alert last week helped ensure a stunning defeat of the sneaky anti-supplement Durbin amendment by a vote of 77 to 20 (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00110). Senator Dick Durbin had offered it at the last minute as an amendment to an FDA bill.
His amendment picked up some pieces from his previous bill (http://www.anh-usa.org/dietary-supplement-labeling-act-a-huge-smokescreen/). This new attempt to surreptitiously push his agenda through is precisely the sort of thing we predicted he might try (http://www.anh-usa.org/a-cautious-victory-on-the-durbin-amendment/).
After we sent out our Action Alert email last Thursday—something we do rarely, since we don’t like to burden our readers with additional emails unless there is something truly urgent—nearly 90,000 messages were sent to Congress in less than 24 hours. This was an astounding, and deeply heartening, response. Thank you! The overwhelming defeat of the amendment shows what citizens working together toward a common goal can achieve.
http://www.anh-usa.org/you-defeated-the-durbin-amendment/
No author
What a tremendous outpouring of grassroots activism! But we need to stay vigilant.
As you probably know by now (http://www.anh-usa.org/durbin-amendment-defeated/), your extraordinary response to our emergency Action Alert last week helped ensure a stunning defeat of the sneaky anti-supplement Durbin amendment by a vote of 77 to 20 (http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=2&vote=00110). Senator Dick Durbin had offered it at the last minute as an amendment to an FDA bill.
His amendment picked up some pieces from his previous bill (http://www.anh-usa.org/dietary-supplement-labeling-act-a-huge-smokescreen/). This new attempt to surreptitiously push his agenda through is precisely the sort of thing we predicted he might try (http://www.anh-usa.org/a-cautious-victory-on-the-durbin-amendment/).
After we sent out our Action Alert email last Thursday—something we do rarely, since we don’t like to burden our readers with additional emails unless there is something truly urgent—nearly 90,000 messages were sent to Congress in less than 24 hours. This was an astounding, and deeply heartening, response. Thank you! The overwhelming defeat of the amendment shows what citizens working together toward a common goal can achieve.
http://www.anh-usa.org/you-defeated-the-durbin-amendment/