Drug, SSRI, Congressional Funding for Compulsory Mental Health Screenings Re: Unconfirmed reoprt - Child screening passes in Congress

[Guest guest]

1. Call voter registration in your county

2. procure name, phone, fax and e-mail of

a. 2 Congressional Senators

b. 1 Congresional Rep

3. Call Washington

Procure name of person involved with FDA so you can have name for continued

contact

4. This is who you need to contact to tell us if the funding has been

appropriated and

TELL THEM EVERY DAY THAT YOU OPPOSE THAT FUNDING.

I believe it will be appropriated to the states for distribution so now is

the time to also contact state legislators and repeat the above refrain.

Use a tape recorder to document phone conversations.

Get a fax for daily notices of your opposition that don't waste you time on

hold or getting the run around hoping you will go away.

Faxes can be sent at nght not interferring with your work day when it won't

be busy if they've not resonded during the day to your fax the night before.

This is why you need the NAME of some congressional staff person to be

ACCOUNTBLE for getting back to you on this issue.

Once you get that then you get $10 worth of 1000 business cards at office

depot with the issue & those numbers and distribute them to everyone you

can.

this has to be defeated before we are in the concentration camps in medical

experimentations.

Re: Unconfirmed reoprt - Child screening passes in

Congress

>

> Bill Frist is a doctor and from a doctor family that is all wrapped up in

> the

> drug industry. Frist will never side for the people or peoples rights over

> the

> drug industry.

>

>

>

> IThis was sent to me and I am passing it on with a caveat. I am unable to

> confirm that this is true - a look at did not show this on the

> Congressional record yet.

> As Moll\y Ivins wrote, Save room for rotten pie with this administration;

it

> is

> going to get much worse.

> -----

>

> http://www.thelibertycommittee.com/

>

>

> November 22, 2004

>

>

> Many members of the U.S. House, including House

> leadership, supported

> Congressman Ron 's language prohibiting funding of

> mandatory or universal mental-health screening of children. In

> addition, Senators Inhofe, Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum

> supported Dr.'s language.However, we believe the drug companies and

> the psychiatric establishment convinced Senators Arlen Specter and Bill

> Frist

> to block it. We are extremely disappointed that the conference committee

> ultimately rejected Dr. 's language and that it was not added to the

> omnibus spending bill.

>

> We won't give up on this issue! Congressman did

> numerous radio interviews, including ones with Reagan and

> Gordon Liddy. Our activistssent 19,788 messages to Congress. Dr.

> Schlessinger talked about it on her show and posted information on her Web

> site.Numerous news articles and commentaries were published about the

> issue. Many of you helped spread the word to family and friends. We will

> take this momentum and work even harder when the new Congress meets in

> January.

>

> Thank you for your efforts! Again, we won't give up.

>

>

> Here is a past post on the subject from November 18,

> 2004

>

> NewStandard Home Iraq in Crisis Civil Liberties &

> Security U.S. Business & Economy News Article

> Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This

> Weekby Getzan (bio)

>

> Legislation to test children for " mental health

> disorders " and then provide them commercial drugs

> -- which would be highly controversial if people

> knew about it -- could reach Congress during this

> month's lame duck session.

>

> Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush

> administration plan to submit the nation's school

> children to mental health testing and drug treatment

> may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as

> GOP congressional leaders look to clear the

> legislative slate in order to set the table for

>

> W. Bush's second term.

>

> The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative

> (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by

> the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental

> Health, a group of doctors and mental health care

> professionals established by the Bush

> Administration in 2002.

>

> As previously reported by The NewStandard, the

> Initiative's critics, ranging from grassroots

> mental health advocacy organizations to government

> whistleblowers, have said the NFI's proposals do

> little else but establish state-mandated markets for

> the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry.

>

> In 2003, the Commission published a report

> recommending states encourage more mental health

> testing and treatment for Americans and suggested

> public schools were an ideal place to access students

> and begin to root out undiagnosed and " severely

> disruptive " mental health issues. It pointed to a

> program begun during Bush's governorship

> of Texas called the Texas Medication Algorithm

> Project (TMAP), which set a standard operating

> procedure within a flow chart allowing psychiatrists

> to identify and medicate possible conditions.

>

> In a report posted on the website of the Law

> Project for Psychiatric Rights quotes a whistleblower

> who says doctors staffing the Texas program had

> strong links to pharmaceutical companies, and

> those doctors often prescribed expensive, brand-name

> drugs over cheaper alternatives. The source of

> that claim is , a former investigator

> for the Office of the Inspector General who says he

> was fired for speaking out against a TMAP-style

> program in Pennsylvania.

>

> The NFI plan, said , does not " have the

> Orwellian goal of drugging the populace for a

> political purpose. " Instead, " it's the Orwellian goal

> of

> drugging the populace for an economic purpose. "

>

> Another critic of the initiative, holistic mental

> health advocate Oaks, says the end result

> of the New Freedom Initiative's recommendations

> will be nothing short of " hundreds of thousands of

> more kids being put on psychiatric drugs. " Oaks

> is director of the mental health advocacy group

> Mind Freedom.

>

> In Oaks' opinion, the issues of child mental

> health are not only more complicated than just

> testing for disorders and putting kids on drugs, but

> are also colored by powerful societal pressures and

> millions of dollars in drug revenues. Oaks has

> called the president's plan " No child left

> undrugged. "

>

> Nevertheless, the plan does have some powerful

> supporters. The American Psychiatric Association,

> which itself receives some of its funding from

> drug companies, has voiced approval for the plan,

> and a number of other states are already

> researching and implementing their own versions of

> TMAP.

>

> During a " lame duck " session of Congress, Senate

> leadership is trying to push through unfinished

> appropriations measures for fiscal year 2005. The

> Bush administration had requested about $44

> million for states to implement mental health

> screening. The House version of the bill, which has

> already passed, includes $20 million in support of the

>

> New Freedom Commission's plan. It is unclear how

> much the Senate will appropriate.

>

> On the coattails of the bill's passage out of the

> House, Representative Ron (R-Texas) is now

> championing the " Let Parents Raise Their Kids

> Act, " which would prevent federal dollars to fund any

> universal system of mental health screening that

> does not hinge on parental-guardian consent.

> Previously, had failed to insert an amendment to

> the appropriations bill blocking federal funding

> of the NFI recommendations.

>

>

> 2004 The NewStandard

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

1. Call voter registration in your county

2. procure name, phone, fax and e-mail of

a. 2 Congressional Senators

b. 1 Congresional Rep

3. Call Washington

Procure name of person involved with FDA so you can have name for continued

contact

4. This is who you need to contact to tell us if the funding has been

appropriated and

TELL THEM EVERY DAY THAT YOU OPPOSE THAT FUNDING.

I believe it will be appropriated to the states for distribution so now is

the time to also contact state legislators and repeat the above refrain.

Use a tape recorder to document phone conversations.

Get a fax for daily notices of your opposition that don't waste you time on

hold or getting the run around hoping you will go away.

Faxes can be sent at nght not interferring with your work day when it won't

be busy if they've not resonded during the day to your fax the night before.

This is why you need the NAME of some congressional staff person to be

ACCOUNTBLE for getting back to you on this issue.

Once you get that then you get $10 worth of 1000 business cards at office

depot with the issue & those numbers and distribute them to everyone you

can.

this has to be defeated before we are in the concentration camps in medical

experimentations.

Re: Unconfirmed reoprt - Child screening passes in

Congress

>

> Bill Frist is a doctor and from a doctor family that is all wrapped up in

> the

> drug industry. Frist will never side for the people or peoples rights over

> the

> drug industry.

>

>

>

> IThis was sent to me and I am passing it on with a caveat. I am unable to

> confirm that this is true - a look at did not show this on the

> Congressional record yet.

> As Moll\y Ivins wrote, Save room for rotten pie with this administration;

it

> is

> going to get much worse.

> -----

>

> http://www.thelibertycommittee.com/

>

>

> November 22, 2004

>

>

> Many members of the U.S. House, including House

> leadership, supported

> Congressman Ron 's language prohibiting funding of

> mandatory or universal mental-health screening of children. In

> addition, Senators Inhofe, Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum

> supported Dr.'s language.However, we believe the drug companies and

> the psychiatric establishment convinced Senators Arlen Specter and Bill

> Frist

> to block it. We are extremely disappointed that the conference committee

> ultimately rejected Dr. 's language and that it was not added to the

> omnibus spending bill.

>

> We won't give up on this issue! Congressman did

> numerous radio interviews, including ones with Reagan and

> Gordon Liddy. Our activistssent 19,788 messages to Congress. Dr.

> Schlessinger talked about it on her show and posted information on her Web

> site.Numerous news articles and commentaries were published about the

> issue. Many of you helped spread the word to family and friends. We will

> take this momentum and work even harder when the new Congress meets in

> January.

>

> Thank you for your efforts! Again, we won't give up.

>

>

> Here is a past post on the subject from November 18,

> 2004

>

> NewStandard Home Iraq in Crisis Civil Liberties &

> Security U.S. Business & Economy News Article

> Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This

> Weekby Getzan (bio)

>

> Legislation to test children for " mental health

> disorders " and then provide them commercial drugs

> -- which would be highly controversial if people

> knew about it -- could reach Congress during this

> month's lame duck session.

>

> Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush

> administration plan to submit the nation's school

> children to mental health testing and drug treatment

> may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as

> GOP congressional leaders look to clear the

> legislative slate in order to set the table for

>

> W. Bush's second term.

>

> The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative

> (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by

> the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental

> Health, a group of doctors and mental health care

> professionals established by the Bush

> Administration in 2002.

>

> As previously reported by The NewStandard, the

> Initiative's critics, ranging from grassroots

> mental health advocacy organizations to government

> whistleblowers, have said the NFI's proposals do

> little else but establish state-mandated markets for

> the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry.

>

> In 2003, the Commission published a report

> recommending states encourage more mental health

> testing and treatment for Americans and suggested

> public schools were an ideal place to access students

> and begin to root out undiagnosed and " severely

> disruptive " mental health issues. It pointed to a

> program begun during Bush's governorship

> of Texas called the Texas Medication Algorithm

> Project (TMAP), which set a standard operating

> procedure within a flow chart allowing psychiatrists

> to identify and medicate possible conditions.

>

> In a report posted on the website of the Law

> Project for Psychiatric Rights quotes a whistleblower

> who says doctors staffing the Texas program had

> strong links to pharmaceutical companies, and

> those doctors often prescribed expensive, brand-name

> drugs over cheaper alternatives. The source of

> that claim is , a former investigator

> for the Office of the Inspector General who says he

> was fired for speaking out against a TMAP-style

> program in Pennsylvania.

>

> The NFI plan, said , does not " have the

> Orwellian goal of drugging the populace for a

> political purpose. " Instead, " it's the Orwellian goal

> of

> drugging the populace for an economic purpose. "

>

> Another critic of the initiative, holistic mental

> health advocate Oaks, says the end result

> of the New Freedom Initiative's recommendations

> will be nothing short of " hundreds of thousands of

> more kids being put on psychiatric drugs. " Oaks

> is director of the mental health advocacy group

> Mind Freedom.

>

> In Oaks' opinion, the issues of child mental

> health are not only more complicated than just

> testing for disorders and putting kids on drugs, but

> are also colored by powerful societal pressures and

> millions of dollars in drug revenues. Oaks has

> called the president's plan " No child left

> undrugged. "

>

> Nevertheless, the plan does have some powerful

> supporters. The American Psychiatric Association,

> which itself receives some of its funding from

> drug companies, has voiced approval for the plan,

> and a number of other states are already

> researching and implementing their own versions of

> TMAP.

>

> During a " lame duck " session of Congress, Senate

> leadership is trying to push through unfinished

> appropriations measures for fiscal year 2005. The

> Bush administration had requested about $44

> million for states to implement mental health

> screening. The House version of the bill, which has

> already passed, includes $20 million in support of the

>

> New Freedom Commission's plan. It is unclear how

> much the Senate will appropriate.

>

> On the coattails of the bill's passage out of the

> House, Representative Ron (R-Texas) is now

> championing the " Let Parents Raise Their Kids

> Act, " which would prevent federal dollars to fund any

> universal system of mental health screening that

> does not hinge on parental-guardian consent.

> Previously, had failed to insert an amendment to

> the appropriations bill blocking federal funding

> of the NFI recommendations.

>

>

> 2004 The NewStandard

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

1. Call voter registration in your county

2. procure name, phone, fax and e-mail of

a. 2 Congressional Senators

b. 1 Congresional Rep

3. Call Washington

Procure name of person involved with FDA so you can have name for continued

contact

4. This is who you need to contact to tell us if the funding has been

appropriated and

TELL THEM EVERY DAY THAT YOU OPPOSE THAT FUNDING.

I believe it will be appropriated to the states for distribution so now is

the time to also contact state legislators and repeat the above refrain.

Use a tape recorder to document phone conversations.

Get a fax for daily notices of your opposition that don't waste you time on

hold or getting the run around hoping you will go away.

Faxes can be sent at nght not interferring with your work day when it won't

be busy if they've not resonded during the day to your fax the night before.

This is why you need the NAME of some congressional staff person to be

ACCOUNTBLE for getting back to you on this issue.

Once you get that then you get $10 worth of 1000 business cards at office

depot with the issue & those numbers and distribute them to everyone you

can.

this has to be defeated before we are in the concentration camps in medical

experimentations.

Re: Unconfirmed reoprt - Child screening passes in

Congress

>

> Bill Frist is a doctor and from a doctor family that is all wrapped up in

> the

> drug industry. Frist will never side for the people or peoples rights over

> the

> drug industry.

>

>

>

> IThis was sent to me and I am passing it on with a caveat. I am unable to

> confirm that this is true - a look at did not show this on the

> Congressional record yet.

> As Moll\y Ivins wrote, Save room for rotten pie with this administration;

it

> is

> going to get much worse.

> -----

>

> http://www.thelibertycommittee.com/

>

>

> November 22, 2004

>

>

> Many members of the U.S. House, including House

> leadership, supported

> Congressman Ron 's language prohibiting funding of

> mandatory or universal mental-health screening of children. In

> addition, Senators Inhofe, Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum

> supported Dr.'s language.However, we believe the drug companies and

> the psychiatric establishment convinced Senators Arlen Specter and Bill

> Frist

> to block it. We are extremely disappointed that the conference committee

> ultimately rejected Dr. 's language and that it was not added to the

> omnibus spending bill.

>

> We won't give up on this issue! Congressman did

> numerous radio interviews, including ones with Reagan and

> Gordon Liddy. Our activistssent 19,788 messages to Congress. Dr.

> Schlessinger talked about it on her show and posted information on her Web

> site.Numerous news articles and commentaries were published about the

> issue. Many of you helped spread the word to family and friends. We will

> take this momentum and work even harder when the new Congress meets in

> January.

>

> Thank you for your efforts! Again, we won't give up.

>

>

> Here is a past post on the subject from November 18,

> 2004

>

> NewStandard Home Iraq in Crisis Civil Liberties &

> Security U.S. Business & Economy News Article

> Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This

> Weekby Getzan (bio)

>

> Legislation to test children for " mental health

> disorders " and then provide them commercial drugs

> -- which would be highly controversial if people

> knew about it -- could reach Congress during this

> month's lame duck session.

>

> Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush

> administration plan to submit the nation's school

> children to mental health testing and drug treatment

> may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as

> GOP congressional leaders look to clear the

> legislative slate in order to set the table for

>

> W. Bush's second term.

>

> The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative

> (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by

> the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental

> Health, a group of doctors and mental health care

> professionals established by the Bush

> Administration in 2002.

>

> As previously reported by The NewStandard, the

> Initiative's critics, ranging from grassroots

> mental health advocacy organizations to government

> whistleblowers, have said the NFI's proposals do

> little else but establish state-mandated markets for

> the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry.

>

> In 2003, the Commission published a report

> recommending states encourage more mental health

> testing and treatment for Americans and suggested

> public schools were an ideal place to access students

> and begin to root out undiagnosed and " severely

> disruptive " mental health issues. It pointed to a

> program begun during Bush's governorship

> of Texas called the Texas Medication Algorithm

> Project (TMAP), which set a standard operating

> procedure within a flow chart allowing psychiatrists

> to identify and medicate possible conditions.

>

> In a report posted on the website of the Law

> Project for Psychiatric Rights quotes a whistleblower

> who says doctors staffing the Texas program had

> strong links to pharmaceutical companies, and

> those doctors often prescribed expensive, brand-name

> drugs over cheaper alternatives. The source of

> that claim is , a former investigator

> for the Office of the Inspector General who says he

> was fired for speaking out against a TMAP-style

> program in Pennsylvania.

>

> The NFI plan, said , does not " have the

> Orwellian goal of drugging the populace for a

> political purpose. " Instead, " it's the Orwellian goal

> of

> drugging the populace for an economic purpose. "

>

> Another critic of the initiative, holistic mental

> health advocate Oaks, says the end result

> of the New Freedom Initiative's recommendations

> will be nothing short of " hundreds of thousands of

> more kids being put on psychiatric drugs. " Oaks

> is director of the mental health advocacy group

> Mind Freedom.

>

> In Oaks' opinion, the issues of child mental

> health are not only more complicated than just

> testing for disorders and putting kids on drugs, but

> are also colored by powerful societal pressures and

> millions of dollars in drug revenues. Oaks has

> called the president's plan " No child left

> undrugged. "

>

> Nevertheless, the plan does have some powerful

> supporters. The American Psychiatric Association,

> which itself receives some of its funding from

> drug companies, has voiced approval for the plan,

> and a number of other states are already

> researching and implementing their own versions of

> TMAP.

>

> During a " lame duck " session of Congress, Senate

> leadership is trying to push through unfinished

> appropriations measures for fiscal year 2005. The

> Bush administration had requested about $44

> million for states to implement mental health

> screening. The House version of the bill, which has

> already passed, includes $20 million in support of the

>

> New Freedom Commission's plan. It is unclear how

> much the Senate will appropriate.

>

> On the coattails of the bill's passage out of the

> House, Representative Ron (R-Texas) is now

> championing the " Let Parents Raise Their Kids

> Act, " which would prevent federal dollars to fund any

> universal system of mental health screening that

> does not hinge on parental-guardian consent.

> Previously, had failed to insert an amendment to

> the appropriations bill blocking federal funding

> of the NFI recommendations.

>

>

> 2004 The NewStandard

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

1. Call voter registration in your county

2. procure name, phone, fax and e-mail of

a. 2 Congressional Senators

b. 1 Congresional Rep

3. Call Washington

Procure name of person involved with FDA so you can have name for continued

contact

4. This is who you need to contact to tell us if the funding has been

appropriated and

TELL THEM EVERY DAY THAT YOU OPPOSE THAT FUNDING.

I believe it will be appropriated to the states for distribution so now is

the time to also contact state legislators and repeat the above refrain.

Use a tape recorder to document phone conversations.

Get a fax for daily notices of your opposition that don't waste you time on

hold or getting the run around hoping you will go away.

Faxes can be sent at nght not interferring with your work day when it won't

be busy if they've not resonded during the day to your fax the night before.

This is why you need the NAME of some congressional staff person to be

ACCOUNTBLE for getting back to you on this issue.

Once you get that then you get $10 worth of 1000 business cards at office

depot with the issue & those numbers and distribute them to everyone you

can.

this has to be defeated before we are in the concentration camps in medical

experimentations.

Re: Unconfirmed reoprt - Child screening passes in

Congress

>

> Bill Frist is a doctor and from a doctor family that is all wrapped up in

> the

> drug industry. Frist will never side for the people or peoples rights over

> the

> drug industry.

>

>

>

> IThis was sent to me and I am passing it on with a caveat. I am unable to

> confirm that this is true - a look at did not show this on the

> Congressional record yet.

> As Moll\y Ivins wrote, Save room for rotten pie with this administration;

it

> is

> going to get much worse.

> -----

>

> http://www.thelibertycommittee.com/

>

>

> November 22, 2004

>

>

> Many members of the U.S. House, including House

> leadership, supported

> Congressman Ron 's language prohibiting funding of

> mandatory or universal mental-health screening of children. In

> addition, Senators Inhofe, Sam Brownback and Rick Santorum

> supported Dr.'s language.However, we believe the drug companies and

> the psychiatric establishment convinced Senators Arlen Specter and Bill

> Frist

> to block it. We are extremely disappointed that the conference committee

> ultimately rejected Dr. 's language and that it was not added to the

> omnibus spending bill.

>

> We won't give up on this issue! Congressman did

> numerous radio interviews, including ones with Reagan and

> Gordon Liddy. Our activistssent 19,788 messages to Congress. Dr.

> Schlessinger talked about it on her show and posted information on her Web

> site.Numerous news articles and commentaries were published about the

> issue. Many of you helped spread the word to family and friends. We will

> take this momentum and work even harder when the new Congress meets in

> January.

>

> Thank you for your efforts! Again, we won't give up.

>

>

> Here is a past post on the subject from November 18,

> 2004

>

> NewStandard Home Iraq in Crisis Civil Liberties &

> Security U.S. Business & Economy News Article

> Bill to Screen, Medicate Kids May Hit Senate This

> Weekby Getzan (bio)

>

> Legislation to test children for " mental health

> disorders " and then provide them commercial drugs

> -- which would be highly controversial if people

> knew about it -- could reach Congress during this

> month's lame duck session.

>

> Nov 15 - Funding for a controversial Bush

> administration plan to submit the nation's school

> children to mental health testing and drug treatment

> may end up reaching the Senate floor this week, as

> GOP congressional leaders look to clear the

> legislative slate in order to set the table for

>

> W. Bush's second term.

>

> The plan, called the New Freedom Initiative

> (NFI), is the keystone of a package of initiatives by

> the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental

> Health, a group of doctors and mental health care

> professionals established by the Bush

> Administration in 2002.

>

> As previously reported by The NewStandard, the

> Initiative's critics, ranging from grassroots

> mental health advocacy organizations to government

> whistleblowers, have said the NFI's proposals do

> little else but establish state-mandated markets for

> the psychiatric pharmaceutical industry.

>

> In 2003, the Commission published a report

> recommending states encourage more mental health

> testing and treatment for Americans and suggested

> public schools were an ideal place to access students

> and begin to root out undiagnosed and " severely

> disruptive " mental health issues. It pointed to a

> program begun during Bush's governorship

> of Texas called the Texas Medication Algorithm

> Project (TMAP), which set a standard operating

> procedure within a flow chart allowing psychiatrists

> to identify and medicate possible conditions.

>

> In a report posted on the website of the Law

> Project for Psychiatric Rights quotes a whistleblower

> who says doctors staffing the Texas program had

> strong links to pharmaceutical companies, and

> those doctors often prescribed expensive, brand-name

> drugs over cheaper alternatives. The source of

> that claim is , a former investigator

> for the Office of the Inspector General who says he

> was fired for speaking out against a TMAP-style

> program in Pennsylvania.

>

> The NFI plan, said , does not " have the

> Orwellian goal of drugging the populace for a

> political purpose. " Instead, " it's the Orwellian goal

> of

> drugging the populace for an economic purpose. "

>

> Another critic of the initiative, holistic mental

> health advocate Oaks, says the end result

> of the New Freedom Initiative's recommendations

> will be nothing short of " hundreds of thousands of

> more kids being put on psychiatric drugs. " Oaks

> is director of the mental health advocacy group

> Mind Freedom.

>

> In Oaks' opinion, the issues of child mental

> health are not only more complicated than just

> testing for disorders and putting kids on drugs, but

> are also colored by powerful societal pressures and

> millions of dollars in drug revenues. Oaks has

> called the president's plan " No child left

> undrugged. "

>

> Nevertheless, the plan does have some powerful

> supporters. The American Psychiatric Association,

> which itself receives some of its funding from

> drug companies, has voiced approval for the plan,

> and a number of other states are already

> researching and implementing their own versions of

> TMAP.

>

> During a " lame duck " session of Congress, Senate

> leadership is trying to push through unfinished

> appropriations measures for fiscal year 2005. The

> Bush administration had requested about $44

> million for states to implement mental health

> screening. The House version of the bill, which has

> already passed, includes $20 million in support of the

>

> New Freedom Commission's plan. It is unclear how

> much the Senate will appropriate.

>

> On the coattails of the bill's passage out of the

> House, Representative Ron (R-Texas) is now

> championing the " Let Parents Raise Their Kids

> Act, " which would prevent federal dollars to fund any

> universal system of mental health screening that

> does not hinge on parental-guardian consent.

> Previously, had failed to insert an amendment to

> the appropriations bill blocking federal funding

> of the NFI recommendations.

>

>

> 2004 The NewStandard

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>

>