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"A week earlier, on October 21, the Times had quoted Senator James Watson, Republican leader of the senate, offering his view that the senate would pass the bill within another month. On October 13, Senator Smoot was reported as telling President Hoover that there was a chance the bill would pass by November 20. Alternately optimistic and pessimistic news on the tariff bill had been coming in since Hoover's election." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The following information is taken mostly from the transcript of a senate hearing before the senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy. The primary testimony is by Dr. Sidney Wolfe, M. D. director of the Public Citizens Health Research Group, non-profit watchdog of the drug industry. The most outrageous case of bribery that Dr. Wolfe found was executed by a company called Physicians Computer Network (PCN). This company was really a front organization for the 10 largest drug companies." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"A week earlier, on October 21, the Times had quoted Senator James Watson, Republican leader of the senate, offering his view that the senate would pass the bill within another month. On October 13, Senator Smoot was reported as telling President Hoover that there was a chance the bill would pass by November 20. Alternately optimistic and pessimistic news on the tariff bill had been coming in since Hoover's election." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"In 2004, three US senate office buildings were closed after ricin was found in the mail-room of senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office. There were no injuries reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies ricin as a Category B biological agent, meaning it is "relatively easy to disseminate." . - The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-— vention has more information about ricin at www. bt. cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts. asp." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Principal among these are the House Subcommittee to Investigate Nazi Propaganda in 1934, the Special senate Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry in 1935, the report on cartels released by the House Temporary National Economic Committee in 1941, the senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program in 1942, the report of the senate Patents Committee in 1942, and the senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization in 1946." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"U.S. senate, 1936, "Modern Muscle Men," Proper Food Mineral Balances, Charles Northen, 74th Cong, 2d sess. Serial set 10016. Vlassara H et al. Inflammatory mediators are induced by dietary glycotoxins, a major risk factor for diabetic angiopathy. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002 Nov 26; 99(24): 15596-601. Williams CM. Beneficial nutritional properties of olive oil: Implications for postprandial lipoproteins and factor VII. Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 2001 Aug; 11 Suppl 4:51-56. CHAPTER 6 Jiang R et al. Nut and peanut butter consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes in women." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In the United States, when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, so too was a Republican senate, the first since 1948. In 1994, the House went to the Republicans as well. A solidly Republican government is naturally pro-business. Sensing the changed public attitudes that had elected them, these lawmakers were much more pro-business than their Democratic predecessors. This change in Congress has boosted public confidence in the stock market, because of a variety of controls that the legislature can exert over corporate profits and investor returns." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Roman senate, which had lost the last vestige of its lawmaking powers under the emperor. The tetrarchy professionalized the civil service, and built entire cities from the Danube to the Nile Valley, essentially turning the entire empire into a set of urban administrative zones. They also transformed imperial military strategy. Despite the many • A Roman pound, about twelve ounces. wars of the third century, the army in place when Diocletian took the throne was similar in organization to that of seventy years previous, though considerably larger." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The president of a sugar company had told a senate committee investigating lobbying that $75,000 had been spent by the sugar lobby since December in a campaign to reduce duties on sugar. Negotiators had reported a setback in efforts to establish the Bank for International Settlements. A Carnegie Fund report decried the subsidization of college athletes. The America's Cup committee had announced the rules for the next running of the yacht race. An amateur pilot attempting a solo flight across the Atlantic was reported lost." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, the quality of dialogue on this issue in the senate is a testament to the poor quality of science education in America. It is doubtful that the treaty would receive the support of even one-third of the senate, much less two-thirds. Without a public uprising, the United States senate almost certainly will not ratify the treaty. Every candidate running for election to the United States senate should be grilled at every campaign stop from now to the election on whether he or she will vote to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming." - Denis Hayes, The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair (Get the book.)

"In 2005, Senator Dean Flores introduced California State senate Bill 503 that would have required some kind of notification to local farm communities when the nearby fields were being sprayed. There was nothing quite like it, and it at least would have prevented some of the poisonings of the recent past. But at an April 19, 2005, hearing of the State senate Agriculture Committee, one of those who spoke first represented the crop duster applicators in California. She said they were the best applicators in the world, and their chemicals never went off the intended site." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Jonas Salk testified before a senate subcommittee that since 1961, except for a few importations from other countries, all cases of polio were caused by the Oral Polio Vaccine.2 • In 1986, the Federal Government set up a National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to compensate vaccine-injured victims. To date, close to $1 billion has been paid out. • In addition to the "active" part of the vaccine, the vaccine includes substances such as ethylene glycol (antifreeze), formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), and aluminum." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"According to a review of the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System, by the staff of the senate Finance Committee, between July 2005 and September 2005 alone, there were two deaths, thirty-five adverse liver reactions, forty-four cardiac events, and eighty visual events in Ketek patients. Sixty-one cases of abnormal vision were reported to the WHO." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"As the chairman of the Senate's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee he had already taken on the steel and railroad industries. A few years earlier he had made the cover of Time magazine for his investigation of organized crime. In December 1959 Senator Kefauver turned his attention to the pharmaceutical industry and began what would be a long series of hearings probing its practices. Stories had begun to appear of patients searching for a cheaper antibiotic and finding them all priced the same, sometimes to the penny." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "On October 10, 1962, members of both the House and the senate unanimously passed the Kefauver-Harris amendments. None of Kefauver's proposals aimed at reducing drug prices was left in the bill, but the new law greatly strengthened the FDA's control over the marketing and promotion of prescription drugs. It also required the companies once again to focus on good science. Under the new law, the companies were required to perform careful clinical trials that proved not only that a medicine was safe but that it was effective for its intended use." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Edward Kennedy, September 10,1997,at senate hearings on the FDA Reform Bill More than three decades ago, consumer advocate Ralph Nader made one of the first public declarations about how thoroughly the cosmetics safety deck is stacked in favor of manufacturers and against the buying public. "The FDA claims to see great advantages in voluntary [industry] actions ?flexibility, speed, and low costs to the FDA," Nader wrote in a chapter about cosmetics safety for the 1974 book Consumer Health and Product Hazards, published by MIT Press (a book I co-edited). " - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Evidence presented by other witnesses at that two-day hearing of the Senate's Committee on Labor and Human Resources showed that the cases Mr. Jones described were neither isolated nor exaggerated. Documents showed, for example, that American Home Products, the New Jersey-based drugmaker, had created a program whereby physicians could earn frequent flier miles by writing prescriptions for the company's recently approved blood pressure drug, Inderal LA. This medicine was not actually new. It was a long-acting version of the beta-blocking pill invented more than two decades earlier by Dr." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "In November 2004 a scientist at the FDA testified before the senate Finance Committee that Vioxx may have caused heart attacks in as many as 139,000 Americans. He estimated that 30 to 40 percent of these people had died. Rosemary heard those estimates of death and did the figures in her head. "It's a Vietnam." Epilogue Americans spend more on medical care today than they do on housing, food, transportation, or anything else. This was not the case in 1980, when medical costs barely made the list of a household's top five expenses." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In 2004, three US senate office buildings were closed after ricin was found in the mail-room of senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office. There were no injuries reported. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) classifies ricin as a Category B biological agent, meaning it is "relatively easy to disseminate." . - The Centers for Disease Control and Pre-— vention has more information about ricin at www. bt. cdc.gov/agent/ricin/facts. asp." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Radiating from the milion, Constantine's great boulevard, the Mese, ran west to his forum, dominated by a great statue of the emperor himself, and east to the luxurious new senate, the emperor's palace, and the church of St. Eirene, where, on May ii, 330, the new capital of the newly Christian Roman Empire was formally dedicated. The city of Constantine was only 140 years old, therefore, when Petrus's uncle Justin arrived, enlisted in the excubitores, an elite regiment of the Roman army, and started a long climb up the officer ranks." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"When the EU imposed a quota system limiting the amount of bananas imported by Chiquita, the American government intervened on their behalf This might have had something to do with the fact that Chiquita CEO Carl Lindner had become, at the height of the restrictions on his bananas, one of the biggest political donors in America, bestowing more than 5 million dollars. senate majority leader Bob Dole was given unlimited use of Lindner's private jet. Chiquita's profligacy worked: the U.S." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"The drug industry hires 625 lobbyists, more than one for each member of the House and senate. The drug industry's $20 million in campaign contributions for the 2000 election seems downright stingy compared with the insurance industry's $40 million. (Could this be playing any role in President Bush's desire to privatize Medicare?) The $20 million, however, doesn't include the approximately $65 million for so-called issue ads aired by Citizens for Better Medicare." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Accordingly, Kobad's proposal was given due consideration by emperor, court, and senate (including, of course, the emperor-presumptive, Justinian) and might well have been accepted, but for the argument offered by the then-Quaestor, Proclus, who pointed out that such an adoption might well give the Persian a legal claim on the Roman throne. In light of such a risk, Justin (or, probably, Justinian speaking for Justin) rejected the proposal." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "On its seven hills were an enormous, marble-paved forum, a stately and spectacular senate, and a palace from which a sizeable fraction of the world was ruled. The city housed a giant arena in which tens of thousands of the city's rowdier elements were kept docile by a diet of bread and circuses. Their bread was baked with the grain of Egypt, delivered daily to the city's gates and harbors, as was every other commodity that could be carried by mule or oxcart over the world's greatest network of roads. Petrus would have known it for the capital of the Roman Empire." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"Graham further relates: The day before the senate announced there would be a hearing at which I would be testifying, I was invited to the FDA commissioner's office where I was asked to consider leaving drug safety to move to the commissioner's office. This is very strange because over the two previous months, I had been vilified by FDA management in the press and attacked and harassed by my own management in an attempt to get me to change my conclusions about Vioxx." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"Responding to reports of an alarming increase in chronic diseases linked to diet—including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes—the senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs chaired by South Dakota Senator George McGovern held hearings on the problem. The committee had been formed in 1968 with a mandate to eliminate malnutrition, and its work had led to the establishment of several important food-assistance programs." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Principal among these are the House Subcommittee to Investigate Nazi Propaganda in 1934, the Special senate Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry in 1935, the report on cartels released by the House Temporary National Economic Committee in 1941, the senate Special Committee Investigating the National Defense Program in 1942, the report of the senate Patents Committee in 1942, and the senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization in 1946." - G. Edward Griffin, World Without Cancer (Get the book.)

"On November 18, 2004, FDA scientist David Graham created a firestorm of controversy by telling a senate committee that Accutane should be studied for possible withdrawal. On November 23 the FDA announced it would require prescribers, patients, and pharmacies to register for Accutane and women to test negative for pregnancy and demonstrate a one-month history of being on two forms of birth control before getting a prescription. Now you, your doctor, and your pharmacist have to be registered on a computer (www.ipledgeprogram." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Let us repeat: the industry is "spending" tons of money on the members of USA House of Representatives and the USA senate. It goes to "decision-makers," to opinion leaders, to KOLs (Key opinion leaders). So what does that mean? Well it simply means that Big Pharma protects its profits. 57 Peter Weaver, Smart Medicine, How to buy the prescription drugs you need a price you can afford, (Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 2004), p. 13 Look at the Drug Stores. Many are expanding nationwide. Medicap Pharmacies, Walgreens, EVCs, Discount Drug Marts, Eckerds." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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