Ron Paul Introduces 3 Important Health Bills

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CONGRESSMAN RON PAUL INTRODUCES 3 BILLS TO

RESTORE CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT; END FDA CENSORSHIP OF HEALTH CLAIMS; AND END

FTC CENSORSHIP OF HEALTH INFORMATION

Washington,

D.C.: Today on the floor of the House of Representatives, Congressman Ron Paul

introduced three bills that would restore constitutional government; end FDA

censorship of health claims; and end FTC censorship of health information.

HR

3396: The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act. This bill prohibits

regulations promulgated from regulatory agencies from going into effect unless

passed into law by Congress in the way in which the Constitution designates.

Under Article I of the Constitution, the Congress of the United States, our

elected representatives, are the ones given the exclusive power to make laws.

In violation of the non-delegation doctrine, about 90% of all law created by the

federal government is the product of unelected heads of bureaucratic agencies,

not our elected representatives. From 1934 to the present, the Congress of the

United States has delegated executive, legislative, and judicial governing

power to these agencies. The founding fathers warned that this combination

would give birth to tyranny, self-dealing, and corruption and would be the

death of liberty. Because the unelected bureaucracy makes the laws, the nation

has been transformed from a republic into a bureaucratic oligarchy. Congressman

Ron Paul’s Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act restores

constitutional government by returning to Congress the responsibility to make

laws, thereby making them once again accountable for the laws to those who

elect them.

HR

3395: The Health Freedom Act. This bill removes FDA’s power of prior

restraint over all nutrient-disease relationship claims. Under the bill, the

FDA may not prohibit any statement concerning a nutrient affecting a disease

(including treatment effects) from being made in the market and may only act

against a statement once made if it possesses clear and convincing evidence

that the statement is false. Presently the FDA blocks an enormous quantity of

truthful information concerning the effects of nutrients and foods on disease

from reaching consumers. That barrier is removed by the Health Freedom Act, but

the Act preserves the power of the government to prosecute those who

communicate falsehood. The essential purpose of the First Amendment is to

disarm the federal government of the power to impose a prior restraint on

speech. The FDA has imposed a prior restraint for decades to the health

detriment of the public. Passage of the Health Freedom Act will restore

constitutional governance by reasserting the supremacy of the First Amendment

over the Food and Drug Administration.

HR

3394: The Health Information Protection Act. This bill prevents

the Federal Trade Commission from taking action against any advertiser that

communicates a health benefit for a product unless the FTC first establishes

based on clear and convincing evidence that the statement made is false and

that its communication causes harm to the public. Presently, the FTC reverses

the Fifth Amendment burden of proof on the government when it charges

advertisers with deceptive advertising and then demands that they prove their

speech true based on contemporaneously held documentation or be deemed to have

advertised deceptively. The Fifth Amendment requires that FTC bear the burden

of proving advertising deceptive. It may not constitutionally shift the burden

to the advertiser to prove its statements not deceptive. The First Amendment

requires that FTC not act against speech unless the speech is probably false.

It may not constitutionally accuse a party of false advertising yet lack proof

that the advertising is false and condemn advertising based on an absence of

documentation concerning the truth of the statement rather than the presence of

evidence establishing the falsity of the statement.

Dr.

Paul’s introduction of these three momentous bills offers hope to those

who presently perceive themselves as disenfranchised and seek a return to

constitutional government.

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here to tell your representatives to support these bills: http://www.lef.org/featured-articles/Health-Government-Reform-Bills-by-Ron-Paul.htm

 

 

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