SENATORS CHOSE BIG PHARMA OVER THE BEST INTERESTS OF U.S. CITIZENS
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
May 9, 2007
NewsWithViews.com
http://newswithviews.com/Richards/byron29.htm
The Senate has sold out the American people. Anyone voting for change in the last election can now plainly see the shenanigans of a Democratic-controlled Senate. Under Republicans no FDA reform ever took place. Big Pharma owns so many Republicans that all meaningful legislation to curtail the deaths and injuries of American citizens at the hands of Big Pharma and the FDA had been completely thwarted for the past six years. Under Democratic control sweeping FDA reform favorable to Big Pharma was proposed and the majority of meaningful reform was blocked or seriously watered down. Which is worse? As Kennedy stated in his opening remarks today, S1082 (the Kennedy/Enzi FDA bill) was an “elaborate scheme.”
E-mail: byron@truthinwellness.com
http://newswithviews.com/Richards/byron29.htm
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