Call in to CSPAN TODAY Fri Jan 6 re: FRIST and vaccine co liability protection

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IMPORTANT if you call - Remember to be careful with the screeners. You

should not mention vaccines or autism until you get on the air. Also before

asking your question or making your comment, tell the host (with any luck

it will be Lamb) you would like an opportunity to respond.

See details below...........

Sheri

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>Friday, January 6, 2006 Vol. 10 No. 3

SCall in and Speak Out!

From Bobby Manning.

Here's your opportunity to speak to millions of politically engaged

Americans.

Those of you who want to put your two cents in on liability provisions

included in the DoD report can take advantage of Open Line Friday and the

line-up of guests discussing lobbying and the Abramoff scandal.

I have pasted Rep. Obey's floor speech below so you can use it for

some talking points.

I'm listening to all of this coverage of Jack Abramoff.

They are talking about how Abramoff bribed members of congress to

insert language in conference in conference reports and push favorable

legislation. I am seeing all the same similarities to what has been going on

with Senator Frist and Gregg over the years. Yet where is the press

investigating this exchange of legislation for contributions? Remember to

be careful with the screeners. You should not mention vaccines or autism

until you get on the air. Also before asking your question or making your

comment, tell the host (with any luck it will be Lamb) you would like

an opportunity to respond.

Challenge the guests. Why aren't they looking at Sen. Frist and Gregg

and all the legislative business they do for drug companies? How is what is

going on with this liability legislation any different from what Jack

Abramoff has been doing? Frist is inserting language in conference reports

and pushing favorable legislation in 'must pass' bills. The press are

very thin skinned so politely express your dissatisfaction with their

coverage on this issue.

There will be a lot of people calling in on this issue so get your

re-dial finger ready. If we can get four or five calls in then they will

know this is something people are interested in.

Washington Journal: Support Democrats (202) 737-0002 Washington

Journal: Support Pres. Bush (202) 737-0001 Washington Journal: Support

Others (202) 628-0205

Call-In Open Phones C-SPAN, Washington Journal

08:00 AM EST LIVE Call-In, Lobbying C-SPAN, Washington Journal

Knott, Center for Public Integrity

09:00 AM EST LIVE Call-In, Lobbying C-SPAN, Washington Journal Tom

Edsall, Washington Post

09:30 AM EST LIVE Call-In, Abramoff Investigation C-SPAN, Washington

Journal , American League of Lobbyists

Here is an excerpt from Obey's speech below.

" The Conference Committee ended its work with an understanding, both

verbal and in writing, that there would be no -- I repeat no --legislative

liability protection language inserted in this bill. And because the

Majority told us it did not want any compensation program for victims to

come out of the discretionary portion of the budget, no funding was provided

for that either. But after the Conference was finished at 6pm, Senator

Frist marched over to the House side of the Capitol about four hours later

and insisted that 40 pages of legislation - which I have in my hand - 40

pages of legislation that had never been seen by Conferees be attached to

the bill. The Speaker joined him in that insistence so that, without a vote

of the Conferees, that legislation was unilaterally and arrogantly inserted

into the bill after the Conference was over in a blatantly abusive power

play by two of the most powerful men in Congress. We then discovered that

this language provided all sorts of insulation for pharmaceutical companies

and that this insulation applied not just to drugs developed to deal with

the flu, but in fact applied to a far broader range of products. "

" In essence, the provisions allow the Secretary of HHS to issue a

declaration that has the effect of almost completely prohibiting lawsuits in

state or federal courts by persons whose health was injured against

manufacturers and various others for compensation for injuries caused by the

use of " covered countermeasures. " That determination would bar lawsuits

against a wide range of " covered persons " involved with the

countermeasures-including manufacturers and their suppliers, distributors,

state and local governments and their employees involved with use of the

countermeasures, medical personnel prescribing and administering the

countermeasures, and so forth. This is very broad power indeed to ban

lawsuits. Unlike the language requested by the Administration, the Division

E language is not limited to products to combat a flu pandemic. Rather, it

applies to any drug, vaccine, medical device or other products useful in

dealing with anything the Secretary considers to constitute a public health

emergency or that could constitute an emergency in the future. "

House Committee On Appropriations, Democratic Staff

R. Obey (WI-07), Ranking Member

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