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...early White House priority; it is unlikely to be dealt with until weeks or months after Obama names a nominee for FDA commissioner, an announcement that could come within days. Plus, some of DTC's most vocal critics in Congress aren't calling for an all-out advertising ban. For example, Democratic Representative Bart Stupak of Michigan, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, wants a moratorium on DTC ads during a drug's first two years on the market. "Two years will give the FDA and doctors time to see what safety issues arise...
...White House aides say the important thing is not to focus on the holes in the lobbying rules but on their positive effect. The new Obama policy, according to several outside groups, remains the most expansive ban on the revolving door between lobbyists and public service in Executive Branch history. The exceptions aside, White House spokesman Gibbs says he is convinced that the American people will not lose sight of the forest for a few trees...
...Washington A Reversal, Again, on Abortion Gag Rule President Barack Obama restored funding to aid groups that offer abortions or abortion advice, undoing a 1984 ban criticized by pro-choice groups. Obama said denying aid undermined "safe and effective voluntary family-planning in developing countries." It was the third time a President reversed the order...
Still, the council leaders are not alone in targeting yoga as a distracting influence to good Muslims. In neighboring Malaysia, a formal ban on yoga was issued last year and is still in place, a move that many Malaysians worried would heighten religious tension in the country. "I think the fatwa was issued now because of their ties to clerics in Malaysia," suggests Hamid Basyaib of the Liberal Islam Network. Many doubt it will have much effect. "The council is trying to reassert its authority among Muslims as the guardians of Islamic belief," says Azyumardi Azra, director of graduate studies...
...favor of Shari'a-based banking. Because the council's rulings are nonbinding, they are generally observed only by the nation's more conservative Muslims, but its advice is nonetheless often sought by government officials. Last year, for instance, the council played a key part in the controversial ban of the Ahmadiyah religious sect by the governor of South Sumatra. (Read "Should a Pious Muslim Practice Yoga...