[Ip-health] Pls sign! for trade advisory committees; hearing July 21

[Ellen Shaffer]

The U.S. Congress will hold a hearing on trade advisory committees on
Tuesday, July 21. The US Trade Representative is expected to testify, as
will CPATH and others.


We would appreciate *organizational signatures to a letter of support
for HR 2293 * (Van Hollen), which would create a *Public Health
Advisory Committee on Trade (PHACT),* and improve transparency and
accountability in the trade advisory committee system.  Signatures by
U.S. groups will help us solicit Congressional co-sponsors.

To see the letter of support, and to sign on for your organization,
please go to:

*http://www.cpath.org/id4.html <cid:part1.00030800.02060808@gmail.com>*
<about:blankwww,cpath.org>
Would you please let us know if:

** Your organization will sign the letter of support, to help seek
Congressional co-sponsors for HR 2293?

** You will *ask your member of Congress to co-sponsor HR 2293*?  - Find
your representative + contact info at  http://www.house.gov/
<http://www.house.gov/>

** You can attend the hearing on July 21?
*
Please circulate this announcement.*  Thank you.

*Info on the hearing:*

FROM THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS SUBCOMMITTEE ON TRADE

Chairman Levin Announces Hearing on Trade Advisory Committee System

House Ways and Means Committee Trade Subcommittee Chairman Sander M.
Levin announced that the Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on
Trade will hold a hearing on how the system of trade advisory committees
is functioning, and on how to increase transparency and public
participation in the development of U.S. trade policy.  **The hearing
will take place on Tuesday, July 21, 2009, in Room 1100, Longworth House
Office Building, beginning at 10:00 a.m.**

Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) have introduced
HR 2293 to  add a Public Health Advisory Committee on Trade (PHACT) to
the influential Second Tier of the Federal Trade Advisory Committee System.

Public testimony can be submitted by  August 4, 2009.  See instructions
in Committee Advisory Note:

http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=3Dview&id=3D7864
<http://waysandmeans.house.gov/hearings.asp?formmode=3Dview&id=3D7864>
For additional background, please see:

http://www.cpath.org/id4.html

- Ellen Shaffer and Joe Brenner

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Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH

Co-Director, Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH)

San Francisco Presidio

P.O. Box 29586

San Francisco, CA 94129-0586

phone: 415-922-6204

ershaffer@gmail.com

fax: 415-831-4091

mobile: 415-680-4603

www.centerforpolicyanalysis.org/ www.cpath.org



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Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH
Co-Director, Center for Policy Analysis
San Francisco Presidio
P.O. Box 29586
San Francisco, CA 94129-0586
phone: 415-922-6204
fax: 415-885-4091
cell: 415-680-4603
www.centerforpolicyanalysis.org/ www.cpath.org


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Ellen R. Shaffer, PhD MPH
Co-Director, Center for Policy Analysis
San Francisco Presidio
P.O. Box 29586
San Francisco, CA 94129-0586
phone: 415-922-6204
ershaffer@gmail.com
fax: 415-831-4091
mobile: 415-680-4603
www.centerforpolicyanalysis.org/ www.cpath.org