OT URGENT FW: Shame! They snuck immunity language in After the Joint Conference meeting!

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Shame! They snuck immunity language in After the Joint Conference meeting!

Keep up the Pressure on Congress!

From The Editor of the Schafer Autism Report:

Over this weekend Congress has been working on legislation that

could plunder your family's health and civil rights. The legislation to

give vaccine makers cartblanc immunity from civil suits must be stopped from

happening. Once again political leaders are shamelessly trying to sneak it

pass the public and even their fellow congress members. Please take the

time to fax to at least one congressperson a note saying this must not

happen. Do it now! We are being heard!

-Lenny Schafer

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Congress is Engaged in a Shameful Legislative Maneuver!

Tell Them You Won't Take it!

Update: We Are Being Heard but Our Allies in Congress are telling us to

Step Up the Pressure!

The Congressional Leadership Wants to Suspend the Rules so our

Representatives won't know what they are voting on. Some in Congress are

speaking up. They need to hear more from us.

Our latest information is that the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill

Conference Report was completed, the conference meeting adjourned and then

the Leadership slipped the language in! We are informed that the bill

contains language giving immunity to drug companies and a SHAM compensation

provision.

The bill hasn't been filed yet so we can't independently confirm this

information. We have been told to watch the Authorization Bill and Budget

Reconciliation too. The problem is getting copies of the bill drafts.

Congressional Leadership is hiding them from the public and even from their

colleagues in Congress. We think the Senate vote on the Department of

Defense Appropriations will take place tomorrow so there is still time to

tell Congress what you think

The calls, faxes, emails -- the pressure -- is working. Believe it or not a

group of parents with sick children is beating back the Pharma lobby and the

Congressional leadership. If we do, it won't be the first time, and it won't

be the last, because we have no choice to keep fighting for our children's

lives.

If we can get past these shameful secret legislative maneuvers we can beat

the those who represent only the drug companies and their lobbyists. The

Congressional leaders know immunity legislation for drug companies cannot

pass on their own because such legislation cannot withstand public scrutiny.

The American people will not stand for it.

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ACTION!

We need to keep the pressure so Take Action Now. Send a message or find

your representatives telephone number on A-CHAMP's legislative directory and

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Tell your representaive that you oppose insertion of language giving

pharmaceutical companies immunity against vaccine injury claims into the

Department of Defense Appropriations Conference Report.

It is crunch time so ACT NOW!

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Some telephone numbers and contact information are listed below.

Thanks.

The A-CHAMP Legislative Action Team

Sample Letter and telephone and fax numbers of key United States Senators:

Dear _________:

I respectfully request that you act to protect the rights of vaccine-injured

children by opposing the unfair liability immunity giveaway proposed for

drug companies.

There are ten or more bills pending in Congress that contain language that

severely limits the rights of children injured by vaccines. I am shocked to

learn that one of these provisions may be slipped into proposed legislation

- the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill Conference Report - in a

manner similar to the provisions snuck in the dead of night into the

Homeland Security bill in 2002. If any of these provisions is enacted, a

vaccine-injured child's right to have his or her day in court will be

unnecessarily and unfairly taken away. Enactment of this legislation will be

a dark day for the tradition of fair play and equity in the American justice

system, not to mention that such action will violate the Seventh Amendment's

preservation of every American's right to a jury trial.

As a voter who cares deeply about children injured by vaccines, I oppose

legislation that will provide unprecedented immunity to a vaccine industry

that has caused tragic injury to some children. Such liability protection is

unnecessary. There has been minimal number of vaccine lawsuits over the past

30 years - current laws adequately protect vaccine manufacturers. The

apparent lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity in our country is not due to

lawsuits but to other causes, such as the consolidation of pharmaceutical

industry via merger and market factors that pose economic barriers to

vaccine production. Liability concerns have little to do with vaccine

manufacturing problems - eminent public health experts like the NIH's Dr.

Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein, formerly of the CDC's National

Immunization Program, have said so. Liability is not the problem.

In addition, representatives of biotechnology companies have through the use

of the latest technology that eliminates dangerous protein contaminants

vaccines can be produced more safely than through the methods used by the

major drug companies. These biotech companies say that they do not need

liability protection in order to move ahead to manufacture the new

generation of safe vaccines. Biotech firms using new technology have

sufficiently high confidence in the safety of their product that they are

not worried about lawsuits.

I urge you to place the interests of injured children above those of the

pharmaceutical industry. Along with many of voters across the country, I am

deeply concerned that should unnecessary liability protection be enacted

vaccine manufacturers will cease to have an incentive to make their products

safe. Lack of vaccine safety endangers all Americans.

Please act to protect Americans and ensure that safety is our vaccine

program's highest priority.

Sincerely,

_____________

CALL ALL of these Senators (and one House Member) ASAP!!!

Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: Fax: (202)

224-9450

Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: Fax:

Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: Fax:

Senator Bond (MO) Phone: Fax:

Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: Fax:

Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: Fax:

Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Phone: (202) 224 - 3324 Fax: (202) 224 - 4952

Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: Fax:

Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: Fax:

Senator Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: Fax:

Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: Fax:

Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: Fax:

Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: Fax:

Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: Fax:

Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: Fax:

Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: Fax:

Senator Kennedy (MA) Phone: Fax:

Senator Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: Fax:

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Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: Fax:

Senator Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: Fax:

Senator McCain (AZ) Phone: Fax:

Senator Graham DC Phone: Fax:

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