Senator Harkin says he will hold thimerosal-autism hearings in early 2009

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This is encouraging

DK

From: Iowans for informed

consent

Subject: Meeting with Harkin

To: Undisclosed-Recipient@...

Date: Sunday, December 14, 2008, 2:56

PM

Hello Everyone!

We just wanted to let you know that the meeting with

Harkin went incredibly well, from all that we can tell. He was not

aware that Mercury was still in vaccines, and he kept saying

" What? You've gotta be kidding? " to the various pieces

of information presented to him. There was a Mercury researcher there

from Wisconsin who just

blew Harkin away. He told him that the amount of Mercury in a flu shot

is 250 times more toxic than what is considered toxic waste. He also

said that no one is monitoring these shots, so sometimes there is much more

than they state in the vaccines.

When we told him that our own department of Health stated

that Mercury was not only not toxic, but that it was healthy for you he said

" What? I want a transcript of that meeting! Even I know that

mercury is bad! " I have to tell you it was a sight to

behold. :0)

The meeting was suppose to be just 30-45 minutes and he

stayed with us for 2 hours! 2 hours! Wow! We all felt

honored and humbled by him giving us so much time. He took copious

notes and asked us what we would like for him to do. We told him Senate

hearings on the whole vaccine issue and a ban on Thimerosal

nationwide.

He said he would put a staff person on it, and although he

is working on Obama's health bill right now, he would be willing to

begin Senate hearings on this issue sometime in Feb/March/April depending

on how the schedule works out. Lujene from www.nomercury

was there as well and volunteered to be a volunteer staff person and organize

these hearings. We hope he will take her up on it as she is one

incredible woman.

We hope that with this meeting, if there is any language

in Obama's new bill that pertains to vaccines, that he will have our meeting

foremost in his mind.

We know you are all busy with Christmas goings on, but

were hoping that you would take the time to send Senator Harkin a Christmas

card with your family picture and just a note telling him " Thank you for

working on a ban of Thimerosal in vaccines, " or something of that

nature. No ranting about how bad all vaccines are, or any of that, just a

simple thank you for looking into the issue and if you have a vaccine

injured child, maybe a short paragraph about your family story. (

I know short is not easy!) :0)

And we would sure love to get support from any other

Senators or Congressmen/women out there. If you have any contacts, or

know someone who knows someone, please let us know.

Senator Tom Harkin's address is:

Des Moines

210 Walnut Street

Room 733, Federal Building

Des Moines, IA 50309

(515)284-4574 Phone

(515)284-4937 Fax

These cards and letters

DO make a difference. If we could get national legislation passed, we

would not have to work on state legislation, but we'll do both right now to

try to cover all bases. 35,000 children are born in Iowa every year, and over 2 million in the US. This is an issue that affects every American.

Thank you all for your

incredible support and prayers!

Sonya Swan

www.iowansforinformedconsent.org