Wiley was the key player in overcoming these obstacles. He worked closely with Bok, Adams, and the AMA in their anti-nostrum muckraking crusades, providing them valuable inside information on the patent medicine industry. In 1904 the Congressional anti-nostrum crusaders almost got a bill to the floor of the Senate but it died before it could be considered. Finally these Congressional crusaders got President Theodore Roosevelt, in December 1905 to call for a federal pure food and drug act to protect the American public.