Observation About IACP's Letters To Congress and a lot of Questions About the Letters

When you think about how many members of Congress there are, IACP's letters with signatures are not that impressive.  Also why did only members of the House  sign off on the letters. No one from the Senate signed these letters.  The DQSA is legislation passed by both the House and the Senate.  Furthermore, the intent of some of Congress in passing the legislation does not equal the intent of the legislation.  In other words, Representative X may have passed the legislation because he receives a lot of campaign dollars from an group and he believes he is passing language that benefits that group when in truth what he just voted to pass will hurt the group that supports him.  His intent does not trump the language of the bill. It does not trump the intent of the entire Congress. Also remember that in the U.S. we have a separation of powers type government with three branches:  The executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The legislative branch has the ability to enact laws. The executive branch has the ability to see those laws enforced. The judicial branch has the ability to decide the guilt of a party who breaks the laws and the ability to interpret the laws when necessary.  Are the Representatives that signed off on these letters overstepping their bounds at this point and interfering with the ability of the executive to enforce the laws?  How many who signed the letters are up for reelection? How many receive huge donations from IACP, other compounding groups, and individual compounders.    I feel certain if another NECC like outbreak occurs both Congress and IACP will blame the FDA. It won't matter that the FDA was spending all its time responding to letter rather than enforcing the DQSA.

Maybe the victims of the bad compounders need to start a campaign and get the members of the Congress to sign off on a letter telling the FDA they want the DQSA fully enforced.  Unfortunately, most of the victims probably do not have the money and resources that IACP has.  Most victims are still mourning losses and dealing with their illnesses from bad compounds.  Any financial compensation that have or will receive will go to the expenses of dealing with the harm caused.  Let's not forget that NECC was not the first horror story from this industry.  And, sadly it may not be the last.