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STOCK Act introduced to limit insider trading of members of Congress

2/2/2012 - Congress seems to be getting the message that it is the most unpopular of all government institutions, because suddenly everyone on Capitol Hill is all about "transparency." In a bid to shore up their reputation as out-of-touch elites who don't have to play by the same rules as the rest of us, lawmakers...

Five new government restrictions on food, medicine, and health freedom that are set to take effect on January 1, 2012

12/28/2011 9:10:34 PM - The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) has issued its annual list of new laws that will go into effect in various states around the country on Jan. 1, 2012. In this list are five specific pieces of legislation that place new restrictions on food, medicine, and health freedom. According...

Grassroots Internet freedom movement slams GoDaddy.com, lawmakers for their support of SOPA

12/28/2011 - The Internet is the "final frontier" when it comes to pure freedom of speech and expression, which is why authoritarian regimes in places like Iran and China either severely limit or ban access to much of it. Having said that, you wouldn't think that here in the cradle of democracy and freedom, American...

Broke California using taxpayer money to lobby for more taxpayer money

9/24/2011 - Just when you thought the drunken-sailor spending habits of California couldn't get any more absurd comes a report this week that state lawmakers have elevated squandering taxpayer money to new heights. Broke California is actually using taxpayer money to beg Washington for more taxpayer money. Worried...

Vermont lawmakers draft amendment to stop corporations from being considered 'people'

4/17/2011 - In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations are essentially the same as people, and are thus free under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution to participate in "electioneering communications," or political advertising...

North Carolina SB 31 bill seeks to turn healers into felons; but the health freedom backlash has already begun

4/6/2011 - As virtually the entire North Carolina legislature now knows, NaturalNews readers have been loudly condemning the lawmakers there over the recent "stealth bill" SB 31 which introduced new language that would transform homeopaths, naturopaths, herbalists and midwives into criminal felons. (http://www.naturalnews.com/031953_medical_practice_licensing.html) It...

Following Giffords shooting, ignorant lawmakers call for criminalizing certain symbols and words

1/10/2011 - It's barely 48 hours after the fatal shooting of federal judge John Roll and the wounding of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and the assaults on Free Speech are already underway. Congressman Robert Brady from Pennsylvania has announced he will introduce a bill that would criminalize the use of "symbols"...

FDA outlawing injectable vitamin C to further destroy health of Americans

1/6/2011 - Not content to kill 100,000 Americans each year with deadly Big Pharma drugs while censoring the truth about the healing effects of herbs, nutritional supplements and natural medicines, the FDA has now set out to deny Americans access to yet another lifesaving medicine known simply as vitamin C. As...

Why U.S. lawmakers oppose renewable energy grants

5/15/2010 - With the economy in shambles throughout the past year or two, lawmakers have been scrambling to find ways to spur growth and increase American jobs. However many are opposing stimulus efforts that create jobs overseas, including renewable energy grants that end up creating manufacturing jobs in China...

Stress Testing the MOTHERS Act

5/7/2009 - The Mothers Act is due to be voted on soon by the U.S. Senate. This is the Big Pharma-advocated law that would require the mandatory screening of all expectant mothers for depression -- with the intent of drugging them if symptoms are present. Investigative journalist Kelly Patricia O'Meara has authored...

Senate Passes Health Insurance Bill for Children

2/3/2009 - The Senate has approved legislation to provide health insurance to 11 million low-income children. For the first time ever, this bill will spend federal money to insure children and pregnant women who are legal immigrants. The House approved this legislation on January 14 and President Obama will most...

This Halloween, Say No To Candy Containing GM Sugar

10/26/2008 - Parents in Brazil are refusing to feed their children products made using genetically-modified sugar, according to an article at Food & Water Watch. Halloween is just around the corner, and unbeknownst to many American parents, foods like Kellogg's cereal and Hershey's chocolate may be made with sugar...

Bailout, or Blowout? Financial "Rescue" Plan Turns into Mad Spending Spree

10/3/2008 - As the United States of America stands on the verge of irrecoverable bankruptcy, U.S. Senators have decided to orchestrate a final "blowout" spending spree by dressing up the financial bailout plan with so much bloated pork that no lawmaker can resist its lure. The so-called "rescue plan" (renamed from...

U.S. Lawmakers Push FDA to Inspect More Foreign Drug Manufacturing Factories

9/20/2008 - Congress has promised to raise more money to enable the FDA to inspect foreign drug-making plants more frequently, but has yet to decide upon a method for that fundraising. A series of recent recalls of products made in China, including pet food and toothpaste, has drawn attention to the risks posed...

Lawmakers Examine Whether Drug Ads Are Truthful

7/11/2008 - Merck/Schering-Plough has been forced to pull several ads for Vytorin recently due to concerns that the prescription drug ads may be misleading or not truthful with consumers. Vytorin is a prescription drug prescribed to treat high cholesterol. A study questioning Vytorin's effectiveness has just been...

U.S. Lawmakers Consider Sweeping Effort to Banish Junk Foods From Public Schools

6/30/2008 - An amendment to the farm bill, currently being considered by the Senate, would enact a widespread ban on the sale of junk food to children on school grounds. Under the new rules, developed with intense involvement from the American Beverage Association and other drink and food manufacturers, strict...

FDA tyranny to become law: HR.2900 analysis by Richards and Adams

7/12/2007 - On July 11, 2007, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR 2900, blocking debate on the law and preventing the introduction of any amendments that might have provided meaningful drug safety protections for consumers. This action demonstrates that the House of Representatives, much like the Senate,...

U.S. Senators financially enslave Americans as Indentured Servants to Big Pharma

5/16/2007 - The facts found in the report are almost as astonishing as the source of the report itself: USA Today, a mainstream media giant in the United States, has revealed the apparent financial conflict of interest by U.S. Senators who voted against the infamous S.1082 reimportation amendment. That amendment...

FDA drug safety bill passes in the U.S. Senate; health freedom advocates outraged at betrayal of American consumers

5/9/2007 - The U.S. Senate passed the FDA "drug safety" bill today (S.1082) with a 93-1 vote. A key amendment that would have called for genuine drug safety protections for consumers -- the Grassley amendment 1039 -- was defeated by a single vote (47 to 46). The new law deepens financial ties between Big Pharma...

Americans betrayed by Democratic senators with surprise amendment that protects Big Pharma monopoly

5/8/2007 - Consumers expecting a miracle in the Senate that would end Big Pharma's monopoly and the FDA-enforced drug racket now operating in the United States will be sorely disappointed by yesterday's events. Fifteen Democratic senators (led by Sen. Edward Kennedy) abandoned consumer interests and joined a Republican-organized...

FDA hoodwinks public over CAM Guidelines comment period, slams door shut on public comments one month early

5/1/2007 - The FDA has slammed the door shut on accepting public comments over its contentious "CAM Guidelines" that threaten to destroy natural medicine by classifying virtually all health-enhancing foods, juices, nutritional supplements and functional foods as "unapproved drugs." NaturalNews has acquired emails...

Americans fed up with drug industry influence, FDA corruption, reveals remarkable Consumer Reports survey

4/16/2007 - More than four out of five Americans think drug companies have too much influence over the Food and Drug Administration, and 84 percent believe that advertisements for prescription drugs with safety concerns should be outlawed, reveals a striking new survey from Consumer Reports. The survey results,...

Lawmakers blast FDA for censorship, negligence regarding unsafe drugs

3/16/2007 - Top U.S. lawmakers at a recent hearing criticized the FDA for drug safety problems. The hearing focused on the FDA's handling of a Sanofi-Aventis antibiotic, called Ketek, and several prescription anti-depressants. Problems with these drugs, and also Merck's now-withdrawn Vioxx, were cited. The hearing...

Angry lawmakers demand Texas vaccine order be rescinded

2/7/2007 - Lawmakers and parents have raised objections to Texas Governor Rick Perry's Feb2 executive order, which mandated vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) for all school-age girls. The order directs the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to require that by September 2008, all girls entering...

Lawmakers attempt to push mandatory sex disease vaccinations onto 11 year old girls

1/24/2007 - A proposition before the California state legislature that would make a new vaccine mandatory for girls, is raising questions of parents’ rights. The bill (AB 16), introduced by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, would make inoculation with Guardasil, the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine,...

Drug industry paid for part of Medicare ads, lawmakers charge

8/29/2006 - A recent multimillion-dollar ad campaign that lends support to Republican lawmakers who support the new Medicare prescription drug benefit was partly paid for by the pharmaceutical industry, political officials say. Though the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it paid for the ads -- which are airing...

CounterThink Roundup: The Chinese currency blame game and corporate ethics in America (satire)

3/24/2006 - China's currency valuation is once again under attack by the White House, which claims China isn't letting its currency "float" in a fair way. What is China's currency crime? It has pegged its currency to the U.S. dollar! In other words, the usual dollar manipulation games played by the United States...

Urgent: Stop the National Uniformity for Food Act (H.R. 4167) before it wipes out hundreds of food safety labeling laws

3/4/2006 - Keep up the pressure on your lawmakers to stop passage of H.R. 4167, a bill heavily supported by junk food manufacturers that would -- believe it or not -- make it ILLEGAL for States to protect their citizens from food products containing heavy metals, cancer causing chemicals, aspartame and other dangerous...

Lawmakers want better food labeling of allergens, but far more deaths are caused by other ingredients

7/21/2004 - Lawmakers are rightly concerned about the 200 deaths caused each year by food allergens that are insufficiently noted on food product labels. Some 30,000 people are hospitalized each year thanks to allergic reactions to ingredients like peanuts, cow's milk and wheat, and many food manufacturers neglect...

USDA is too tough on cattle industry, say lawmakers from Virginia and Texas

1/22/2004 8:52:45 AM - The USDA, which has said it will not even require the testing of herds for mad cow disease, is now being criticized for being too tough on the cattle industry. Who's laying out this criticism? Two lawmakers from Virginia and Texas, of course. You can hardly blame them, though: they're just trying...

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