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ACTION ALERT: Prevent Another " Eli Lilly Rider " Giveaway to Vaccine

Makers

> ACTION ALERT

>>From the A-CHAMP Action Center

>

> Act Now to Prevent Another " Eli Lilly Rider "

> Giveaway to Vaccine Makers

>

> TAKE ACTION!

>

http://capwiz.com/a-champ/issues/alert/?alertid=8308931 & queueid=%5Bcapwiz:queue_\

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> Senate Leadership Will Force Language Protecting Drug Companies By

> Inserting Provision in Appropriations Conference Report

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>

> 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.

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>

> 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'

> Department of Defense ( " DOD " ) 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 DOD 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-CHAMP's 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-CHAMP's 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 CHILDREN'S 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 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.

>

>

>

> 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.

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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 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 safety endangers all Americans.

>

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

> programs 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:

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> Senator Arlen Specter (PA) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Pete Domenici (NM) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Bond (MO) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Shelby (AL) Phone: Fax:

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

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> Senator Kay Hutchison (TX) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: Fax:

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

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> Senator C. Byrd (WV) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Leahy (VT) Phone: Fax:

>

> Senator Tom Harkin (IA) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Byron Dorgan (ND) Phone: Fax:

>

> Senator Durbin (IL) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Harry Reid (NV) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Barbara Milkulski (MD) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Kennedy (MA) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: Fax:

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> Senator (ME) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Debbie Stabenow (MI) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Lincoln Chaffee (RI) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator McCain (AZ) Phone: Fax:

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> Senator Graham DC Phone: Fax:

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>

> DEFINITION * TREATMENT * PREVENTION

> Autism is 1 in 150 children today, 1 in 68 families! TAAP (The Autism

> Autoimmunity Project) is a non-profit charity dedicated to obtaining

> funding for independent research into the cause, treatment and prevention

> of autism and other autoimmune disorders. Please learn from our mistake

> and 'Educate BEFORE You Vaccinate!' For more information visit our website

> at www.TAAP.info and 'TAAP into the Truth!'

>

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