Executive Summary

DIETARY SUPPLEMENT BILL HOUSE MARK-UP URGED BY REPS. RICHARDSON, GALLEGLY in an Aug. 15 letter to House Energy & Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and House Energy & Commerce/health subcommittee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.). Noting that the Senate passed its version of the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act (S 784) on Aug. 13, Reps. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) and Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) urged Dingell and Waxman to "schedule a mark-up soon, so that the House will have the opportunity to debate and pass this worthy legislation before the adjournment of the 103rd Congress."