ACTION ALERT: Prevent Another Eli Lilly Rider Giveaway to VaccineMakers

December 12, 2005

>From: " schafer " <schafer@...>

It is up to you!

ACTION ALERT

From the A-CHAMP Action Center

Act Now to Prevent Another " Eli Lilly Rider "

Giveaway to Vaccine Makers

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Take Action!

Senate Leadership Will Force Language Protecting Drug Companies By

Inserting Provision in Appropriations Conference Report

DRUG COMPANY IMMUNITY LEGISLATION WILL

BE INSERTED INTO KEY LEGISLATION THIS WEEK

A-CHAMP AND EAGLE FORUM HAVE UNITED

TO FIGHT THE DRUG COMPANY PRAPAGANDA MACHINE

IN A SERIES OF FULL PAGE CAPITOL HILL ADS.

THE SENATE RETURNS THIS WEEK AND NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU!

For weeks Senators Frist, Gregg and Burr have engaged in a massive PR

campaign promoting the need to extend blanket liability protection for the

pharmaceutical industry. These " Pharma-friendly " Senators aim to insert

language giving liability protection to drug companies into a 'must pass'

Appropriations bill conference report--Congress's spending bill. The Senate

leadership has employed fear and intimidation to muscle support for their

unconstitutional language that would give unnecessary immunity from

liability to the drug companies. By inserting the liability protection

provisions into the Appropriations Conference Report the Senate leadership

will force other Senators who want Congress's spending bill approved to

vote for liability protection--even though liability protection is

unnecessary, places Americans at risk and undermines the Seventh Amendment

to the U.S. Constitution which preserves every American right to a trial

by jury.

A-CHAMPs full page 'Open Letter to Congess' will appear in Congressional

Daily on Monday and Tuesday, December 12 & 13, in Roll Call on December 13,

and in The Hill on December 14. Watch for our email containing our Open

Letter.

WE NEED YOU TO BACK UP OUR MESSAGE BY SENDING YOUR OWN MESSAGE TO CONGRESS.

PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL, SEND A FAX AND MAKE A PHONE CALL.

You may use A-CHAMPs automated messaging system by clicking the Take

Action button or by sending a fax, or making a phone call to your Senator

or Representative. (Contact information for key Senators is listed below.)

STOP THE LATEST CHEAP LEGISLATIVE TRICK THAT AIMS TO GIVE LARGE

CORPORATIONS UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY LIABILITY PROTECTION

CALL. FAX. and SEND AN EMAIL THROUGH OUR AUTOMATED SYSTEM.

FAX & TELEPHONE Numbers of key legislators are Listed Below. Call and send

faxes to them and send emails to your Senators and Congressman through our

system.

WITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN SWARM WASHINGTON WITH PHONES CALLS TO PROTECT

VACCINE-INJURED CHILDRENS RIGHTS!!

" Get on the phone ASAP!!!

" Our ONLY defense is to prevent any liability protection language

from being inserted in the Appropriations bill!

" Tell the legislators listed below plus your own Senator and

Representative that they must not support any of the bills that take away

your childs rights and that you demand that drug companies not be rewarded

for ignoring safety.

" Remind your legislator that constituents are watching their actions

closely. We will remember who supports the children, and who supports

vaccine manufacturers. Our legislators cannot have it both waysthey are

either for our injured children, or they are

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CALL ALL of these Senators

(and one House Member) ASAP!!!

Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: (202) 224-5054 Fax: (202)

224-9450

Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: (202) 224-3004 Fax:(202) 224-2354

Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: 202-224-4254 Fax: 202-228-1229

Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: (202) 224-6621 Fax: (202) 228-3261

Senator Bond (MO) Phone: (202) 224-5721 Fax: (202) 224-8149

Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: (202) 224-2541 Fax: (202) 224-2499

Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: (202) 224-5744 Fax: (202) 224-3416

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

Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: 202-224-5922 Fax: 202-224-0776

Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: 202-224-2644 Fax: 202-224-8594

Sen. Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: 202-224-3934 Fax: 202-224-6747

Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: 202-224-3954 Fax: 202-228-0002

Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: 202-224-4242 Fax: 202-224-3479

against them.

We need everyone possible to get involvedin-laws, neighbors, friends, and

anyone else you can think of. Send this action alert to everyone in your

address book. This is their best chance. WE MUST STOP THEM!

We will send out updates on the situation on Capitol Hill as we receive them.

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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 Appropriations Bills 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 Amendments preservation

of every Americans 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

NIHs Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein, formerly of the CDCs

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 safety endangers all Americans.

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

programs highest priority.

Sincerely,

Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: (202) 224-3254 Fax: (202) 224-9369

Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: 202-224-2551 Fax: 202-224-1193

Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: (202) 224-2152 Fax: (202) 228-0400

Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327

Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954

Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: 202-224-4654 Fax: 202-224-8858

Sen. Kennedy (MA) Phone: 202-224-4543 Fax: 202-224-2417

Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: 202-224-5344 Fax: 202-224-1946

Sen. (ME) Phone: 202-224-2523 Fax: 202-224-2693

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: 202-224-4822 Fax: 202-228-0325

Sen. Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: 202-224-2921 Fax: 202-228-2853

Sen. McCain (AZ) Phone: 202-224-2235 Fax: 202-228-2862

Sen. Graham DC Phone: 202-224-5972 Fax: 202-224-3808

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Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath

http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm

December 12, 2005

I wrote Sen. Burr (who is my state senator) and he replied to me something to

the effect that these vaccines (I'm assuming flu) would not be mandatory and

therefore one could not sue if the shots were optional. What a scum bag.

But then the legislation goes on to say that in the event of an emergency the

shots could be forced! What gives?

Sheri B.

Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...> wrote: