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A-CHAMPAction Alert

CHEAP TRICK! LEGISLATORS ARE TRYING TO SNEAK IN UNFAIR LIABILITY PROTECTION – AGAIN!

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STOP THE NEW "ELI LILLY RIDER" LEGISLATIVE GAMBIT

STOP THE LATEST CHEAP LEGISLATIVE TRICK THAT AIMS TO GIVE LARGE CORPORATIONS UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY LIABILITY PROTECTION

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FAX & TELEPONE Numbers of key legislators are Listed Below. Call and send faxes to them and send emails to your Senators and Congressman through our system.

THIS TIME YOU NEED TO DO ALL THREE TO SEND A STRONG MESSAGE!POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGNWITH YOUR HELP, WE CAN SWARM WASHINGTON WITH PHONES CALLS TO PROTECT VACCINE-INJURED CHILDREN’S RIGHTS!!!• Pharmaceutical Liability Protection Language is now being placed in in multiple pieces of pending legislation in Congress; there is an all-out effort by the pharmaceutical industry to sneak unfair liability protection legislation into larger pieces of legislation, like appropriations bills.• We need to get on the phones through Thursday, Nov. 17, to fight the most concerted effort thus far to take away our children’s rights.• THIS IS WORSE THAN THE FRIST-SPONSORED LEGISLATION OF PAST YEARS. IF UNFAIR LIABILITY PROTECTION PASSES OR CHILDREN WILL LOSE THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS (right to sue, right to jury trial, right to just compensation).• We have learned that liability protection language that will unfairly give pharmaceutical companies legal immunity never before known under U.S. law will be quietly inserted into as multiple bills between now and Thursday. These unfair and unnecessary liability protection provisions have already been inserted into ten separate bills: S3, S975, S1437, S1828, S1873, S1880, HR650, HR3154, HR3970, HR4245 -- these provisions let drug companies off the hook for injuries resulting from vaccines and other products.• Similar provisions will be inserted into general Appropriations bills in the House and Senate. If these provisons are attached to an Appropriations bill WE CANNOT STOP IT!!!HERE’S WHAT WE DO:THE POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGN.• Get on the phone ASAP!!!• Our ONLY defense is to prevent anything from being attached to an 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 child’s 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 ways—they are either for our injured children, or they are against them.Time is of the essence and it ties up their phone lines.The results are immediate.If you have time for faxing, below is a sample letter you can change to fit your situation, or just write your own brief note. In addition, use our automated email system to send messages to your representatives and other key Senators.We need everyone possible to get involved—in-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.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dear _________:I respectfully request that you act to help protect the rights of vaccine-injured children by blocking the unfair liability immunity giveaway proposed for pharmaceutical companies.There are ten or more bills that contain language that severely limits the rights of children injured by vaccines. I am shocked to learn that similar provisions are being slipped into proposed legislation-including Appropriations bills- 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. If it occurs this will be a dark day for the tradition of fair play and equity in the American justice system.As a voter and one 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 have been very few vaccine claims over the past 30 years--current laws adequately protect vaccine manufacturers. There are other reasons for the apparent lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity, such as merger and consolidatin in the pharmaceutical industry and market factors that make vaccines economically difficult to produce. Liability concerns have little to do with vaccine manufacturing problems--Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein have said so. Liability is not the problem.I urge you to place the interests of injured children above those of the pharmaceutical industry. Along with hundreds of thousands of voters across the country, I am deeply concerned that vaccine manufacturers will cease to have an incentive to make their products safe, should unnecessary liability protection be enacted.Sincerely,_____________CALL ALL of these Senators (and one House Member) ASAP!!!Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: (202) 224-5054 Fax: (202) 224-9450Senator Ted s (AK) Phone: (202) 224-3004 Fax:(202) 224-2354 Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: 202-224-4254 Fax: 202-228-1229Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: (202) 224-6621 Fax: (202) 228-3261Senator Bond (MO) Phone: (202) 224-5721 Fax: (202) 224-8149Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: (202) 224-2541 Fax: (202) 224-2499Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: (202) 224-5744 Fax: (202) 224-3416Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Phone: (202) 224 – 3324 Fax: (202) 224 - 4952Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: 202-224-5922 Fax: 202-224-0776 Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: 202-224-2644 Fax: 202-224-8594Sen. Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: 202-224-3934 Fax: 202-224-6747Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: 202-224-3954 Fax: 202-228-0002Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: 202-224-4242 Fax: 202-224-3479Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: (202) 224-3254 Fax: (202) 224-9369 Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: 202-224-2551 Fax: 202-224-1193Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: (202) 224-2152 Fax: (202) 228-0400 Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: 202-224-3542 Fax: 202-224-7327Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: (202) 224-3841 Fax: (202) 228-3954Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: 202-224-4654 Fax: 202-224-8858Sen. Kennedy (MA) Phone: 202-224-4543 Fax: 202-224-2417Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: 202-224-5344 Fax: 202-224-1946Sen. (ME) Phone: 202-224-2523 Fax: 202-224-2693Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: 202-224-4822 Fax: 202-228-0325Sen. Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: 202-224-2921 Fax: 202-228-2853Sen. McCain (AZ) Phone: 202-224-2235 Fax: 202-228-2862Sen. Graham DC Phone: 202-224-5972 Fax: 202-224-3808Congressman Jerry (Chair, House Appropriations) Phone: 202-225-3801 Fax: 202-225-0351

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