

August 11, 2015

Your messages to Capitol Hill accomplished this. But Sen. Durbin reportedly plans to reintroduce his usual anti-supplement bill soon.
After a flood of thousands of messages to Capitol Hill, Durbin’s amendments were once again defeated! A hearty thanks to our dedicated grassroots activists, without whom victories like this would not be possible.
Unfortunately, our sources tell us that Durbin is still planning to reintroduce his Dietary Supplement Labeling Act. The bill was first introduced in 2011, and reintroduced in 2013. You can see our past coverage for the full story on this bad bill, but essentially it lays the foundation for an FDA pre-approval system for dietary supplements. That’s the way drugs are treated, but Congress, in passing the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act, said supplements should be regulated as food, not drugs.
The bill would create extraneous red tape, paperwork, and burdensome labeling requirements despite the fact that just about everything the bill mandates other than pre-approval is already being accomplished under current law. All this bill would do is make it more expensive to manufacture supplements and dampen innovation. If fully implemented, the cost of supplements would soar, so that even fewer people could use them, and most would probably disappear from the shelves.
Let’s be clear: any move toward a pre-market approval system for supplements is a slippery slope that can be used by lawmakers like Durbin as a jumping-off point to regulate thousands of supplements out of existence. We believe this is precisely his intention, and that this is being done on behalf of the drug industry.
The Senate is in recess for the rest of August, but we will be closely monitoring Capitol Hill for any news regarding a reintroduction of the Dietary Supplement Labeling Act.

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39 responses to “Sneak Attack on Supplements, Slipped into Defense Bill—Stopped in Its Tracks!”

  1. KLD says:

    How is that idiots like this guy are not punished when they abuse the system like this? Attached to the defense bill? Wow. What a slime ball.

  2. markypolo says:

    Durbin: Dumbass fcking Democrat!

  3. macgyver1948 says:

    Whoever put this anti-people piece in the defense bill surely shows he/she is working for Big Pharm. Why else would he/she sneak in a agenda that would go against the needs of people? Nee it be asked which side of the aisle this anti-people person is on?

  4. Shane says:

    Big Pharma has bought a lot of politicians with their campaign donations and junkets.

  5. YCNAN says:


    • judyjudy says:

      Hummmm, our current President is no better!!!

    • Tim Reihm says:


      • YCNAN says:


      • Although correct, some old fogey’s (like this guy here) may have been in the Navy which have used all caps on their messages for awhile now. Some lee-way should be given but you are in the right.

        • Tim Reihm says:

          Interesting point! We’ve been applying our All Caps rule on on a case-by-case basis since its also helpful for those with poor eyesight. We’d just like to discourage comments that are clearly trying to disrespect other commenters. Thanks for the insight.

  6. Charli03 says:

    Are you kidding? They do it all the time, attaching this crap to bills that have nothing to do with them and no one reads it. I think it should be made a crime to vote for a bill you have not read in its entirety.

    • Journe says:

      the way they operate constantly sneaking in something else is so so corrupt on these lying, paid, bribed away politicians?
      I think should be a whole New Congressional Law that absolutely
      NO other bill or Amendment, Addition, cannot ever be attached to
      any main Bill that has nothing to do with Intent of Original Bill.

  7. alt307 says:

    Why dickheads get elected?

  8. BlueViolets says:

    Yep, been voting against him since the first time he ran for office. Even Kirk, who says he is a Republican, votes in lock step with Dickie the D.

  9. CHARLES S says:

    I’ve always called Durbin “Dirtbag Durbin…. never liked him and Never will, He is a commie all the way thru. Hate his fat guts and never voted for that fat slime ball. He is looking out for his self interest; he doesn’t give a rats a$$ about his constituents, unless you line his pocket with “money”.

  10. CHARLES S says:

    You have to remember that Illinois is a sanctuary state; and if YOU think this POS is bad then look no farther then that lousy worthless POS -PR(Puerto Rican) Rep. Luis Gutierrez-another greasyslime ball!

  11. Because they are BOUGHT.

  12. artistinwax says:

    They want to shut down supplements to shut down health food stores. Health food stores don’t make enough on vegetables to stay in business. They depend on t he income from supplements to stay afloat. Without health food stores organic farms would not have a way of getting their food to market. That would suit corporate farming. They would take over the good little farms and put GMOs on them. See how everything they do is connected to money? And to monopoly?

  13. dawest58 says:

    There should be an amendment that you can’t mix purposes in a bill. If a bill is for defense, then you can only include things pertaining to defense. It really gets me when politicians slip their pork into something that might be a good deal in order to get what they want. Usually it’s so embedded in a thousand page bill that most won’t notice it and it goes through..

  14. ml01106 says:

    Durbin is a criminal. What’s his problem?

  15. markypolo says:

    I LOVE your dog! Muaaa!

  16. desertspeaks says:

    these people work for CORPORATIONS and DO NOT represent the people! Feathering their own nest while doing the bidding of he who pays the best!

  17. Hp B says:

    Phony baloney democracy.

  18. DisqusMember101a says:

    Checks and Balances!
    What could this mechanism be?
    The answer is a People’s Branch of government!

  19. Eileen Philips says:

    Yep, from Illinois. Disgusted by him. Won’t ever vote for him again.

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