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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 17:40:56 +0000
From: Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...>
Subject: URGENT US Senate Bill 3 will PREVENT states from banning mercury in vaccines
THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM www.NoMercury.org
TAKE ACTION!
LET THESE SENATORS KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS. GO TO THIS SITE FOR
SUGGESTIONS ON LETTER WRITING AND FAX COMPOSTION!! www.NoMercury.org.
Dear Parent/Adovate:
Please look closely at US Senate Bill 3. A copy of the bill is available
at www.NoMercury.org
Under the guise of â?oProtecting America in the War on Terrorâ? US
Senators Gregg, Frist, Sessions, DeWine, Allen, Santorum, McConnell, and
DeMint have introduced S. 3 which calls for many sweeping changes in
pharmaceutical product liability, vaccine regulation, policy, research and
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. This directly impacts those families
whose children have suffered adverse vaccine reactions, Gulf War Veterans,
and any other veteran who suffers from adverse reactions from the multiple
vaccines given (remember the ill-fated anthrax vaccine and small-pox
vaccines).
The most recent bill introduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 3) is aimed at
liability protection of drugs and vaccines and to prevent state legislation
to ban Thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines. This bill is worse than the Eli
Lilly provision of the Homeland Security Act and is a direct â?ogiftâ? to
the pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry gave almost $45
million in campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional
elections since 2002 (www.opensecrets.org) and the health
care/pharmaceutical industry has over 600 lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
alone. If constituents do not weigh in on this horrendous bill, the
American people will suffer; having their civil rights violated and state
autonomy will be compromised. It is an insult to every state elected
official and every American.
This bill is being â?ofast-trackedâ? and is already on the agenda at the
National Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting, scheduled for February 8, 2005
at 10:45 am: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/agenda.html.
It would also severely limit the public access to any information regarding
vaccine research, vaccine production, vaccine regulations, including, but
not limited to meetings about vaccines and â?ocountermeasuresâ? for
pandemics, epidemics, etc. This bill places severe restrictions on FOIA
and will impact your ability to find out about drug/vaccine safety,
regulation and policy. The last thing this country needs is to give
government the ability to hold more â?oclosedâ? meetings without
accountability to the media/public.
Furthermore, Sec. 761 (a)(1) would preempt any state legislation regulating
vaccines. It would preempt State authority and legislation dealing with
vaccines or vaccines components, such as Thimerosal (mercury). Missouri
currently has three bills pending to ban mercury (Thimerosal) in vaccines.
They are Missouri SB 49, SB74 and HB 131. The States of Iowa and
California have already banned mercury in vaccines yet this bill will
preempt such legislation forcing states to allow vaccine manufacturers to
continue using toxic levels of mercury in vaccines (in excess of Federal
EPA safety guidelines). Numerous other states are pursuing similar
legislation such as Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and
Washington. Various other states are also planning to introduce
legislation banning mercury in vaccines within the next few weeks/months,
such as Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
This horrendous piece of Federal legislation would even prohibit the
warning or informed consent provisions for drugs, vaccines and biologics.
Additionally, this bill would prohibit punitive damages and cap
compensatory damages against any pharmaceutical company. This takes the
saying â?oto the victor goes the spoilsâ? to a whole new and ominous
level. If the FDA approves it, the company making it is protected from
liability. We have all seen how attentive the FDA has been to protect
Americans from dangerous drugs such as Vioxx.
This cleverly crafted legislation includes something nearly every American
will understandably want to support: raising the death gratuity for
families of soldiers killed in Iraq from $12,000 to $100,000 and increases
other military benefits. Including an unrelated but popular provision that
should stand alone legislatively seeks only to cloud the issues addressed
in the major portion of this bill's language. Every American supports
increased benefits for our soldiers and their families and that includes
us. As parents and loyal Americans, however, we believe that S. 3 has been
carefully crafted to unfairly paint parents who seek justice for vaccine
injured children into a political corner. Similar to the legislative
sleight of hand employed in the Homeland Security Bill fiasco in 2002 the
sponsors of S.3 are manipulating the political process by tying domestic
programs affecting every American's health and safety to unrelated
"anti-terrorism" programs. In this way they are attempting to make
legitimate opposition to S. 3 politically unacceptable.
We question why politically popular legislation supporting our troops is
tied to a bill with far-reaching provisions that affect and the safety of
vaccines given to millions of American children. Let's not confuse the
issues. We believe that by casting the vaccine safety provisions in the
language of fighting terrorism (epidemic "countermeasures" is S.3's new
code word for "vaccines"--this is truly Orwellian doublespeak) the American
people are being misled about S.3's impact on vaccine safety programs.
Let's deal with one thing at a time. Taking away the right of states to
protect their citizens from dangerous vaccine components and drugs like
Vioxx and Paxil does not translate into protecting our children--from
terrorism or anything else. All it does is give control of these
matters--vaccines and drugs--to a few powerful people who operate behind
closed doors. The vaccine safety provisions are pharma support positions,
plain and simple, and are not necessary for bio-terror defense, at least
not in this form.
It would also overhaul The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to
the detriment of children and families. Other parts of this legislation
are extremely troublesome as well and we have included a copy in pdf format
for your review. This is not a benign bill--this goes directly to counter
state and parental efforts to protect children from vaccine injuries.
Read a few excerpts below. If this bill is as concerning to you as it is
to other parents and many members of the medical community, please contact
all members of the US Senate, particularly your Senators and members of the
US Senate Finance Committee (see their contact info below). This is not
anti-terrorism--this is Federalism gone wild.
Finance Committee
Republicans on Finance Committee
Grassley Charles R- IA
Chairman, Committee on Finance
135 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-1501
Tel: (202) 224.3744
Fax: (202) 228 0578
http://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Hatch Orrin R- UT
104 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-5251
Fax: (202) 224-6331
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact
Lott Trent R- MS
487 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6253
Fax: 202-224-2262
http://lott.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email
Snowe, Olympia R-ME
154 Russell Senate Office Buildg.
Washington DC 20510-1903
Ph 202-224-5344
Fax 202-244-1946
olympia@...
Kyl Jon R- AZ
730 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207
http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Thomas, Craig R- WY
United States Senate
307 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: 202-224-6441
Fax: 202-224-1724
http://www.senate.gov/%7Ethomas/html/contact.html
Santorum Rick R- PA
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3804
Phone: 202-224-6324
TTYD Number: 202-224-5024
Fax: 202-228-0604
http://santorum.senate.gov
Frist Bill R- TN
Office of Senator Bill Frist
509 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3344
202-228-1264 (fax)
http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm
Smith Gordon R- OR
404 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20510-3704
Phone: (202)224-3753
Fax:(202)228-3997
http://gsmith.senate.gov/webform.htm
Bunning Jim R- KY
1717 Dixie Highway Suite 180
Fort Wright KY, 41011
Phone 859-341-6480
Fax: 859-341-6482
Jim@...
Crapo, Mike R- ID
239 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
phone 202-224-6142
FAX 202-228-1375
TDD 202-224-2806
http://www.crapoforsenate.com/contact_us.asp
Democrats on Finance Committee
Baucus Max D- MT
511 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2651
(202) 224-4700 (Fax)
(800) 332-6106 (from MT)
(202) 224-1998 (TDD)
http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/emailmax.html
Rockefeller, IV, John D. D- WV
531 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202-224-6472
Fax: 202-224-7665
Email Address: senator@...
Conrad, Kent D-ND
530 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-3403
Fax: (202) 224-7776
Online: http://conrad.senate.gov
E-mail: http://conrad.senate.gov/webform.html
Jeffords, James (I - VT)
728 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5141
Fax (202) 228-0776
http://jeffords.senate.gov/contact-form.html
Bingaman, Jeff D- NM
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-5141
(202) 224-5521
TDD: (202) 224-1792
http://www.senate.gov/~jeffords/contact-form.html
Kerry, John F D-MA
304 Russell Bldg.
Third Floor
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2742 - Phone
(202) 224-8525 - Fax
http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/contact/email.html
Lincoln Blanche L. D- AR
355 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510-0404
Phone: (202)224-4843
Fax: (202)228-1371
http://lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html
Wyden Ron D- OR
230 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3703
(202) 224-5244
fax (202-228-2717)
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Schumer Charles D- NY
313 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6542
Fax: 202-228-3027
TDD: 202-224-0420
http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/webform.html
--------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK
$$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account
vaccineinfo@... voicemail US 530-740-0561
(go to http://www.paypal.com) or by mail
Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
Vaccine Dangers On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm
Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
ANY INFO OBTAINED HERE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS MEDICAL
OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION TO VACCINATE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.
******
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy
knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information
and religions destroy spirituality" ....Michael Ellner
From: Sheri Nakken <vaccineinfo@...>
Subject: URGENT US Senate Bill 3 will PREVENT states from banning mercury in vaccines
THIS IS A PRESS RELEASE FROM www.NoMercury.org
TAKE ACTION!
LET THESE SENATORS KNOW HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THIS. GO TO THIS SITE FOR
SUGGESTIONS ON LETTER WRITING AND FAX COMPOSTION!! www.NoMercury.org.
Dear Parent/Adovate:
Please look closely at US Senate Bill 3. A copy of the bill is available
at www.NoMercury.org
Under the guise of â?oProtecting America in the War on Terrorâ? US
Senators Gregg, Frist, Sessions, DeWine, Allen, Santorum, McConnell, and
DeMint have introduced S. 3 which calls for many sweeping changes in
pharmaceutical product liability, vaccine regulation, policy, research and
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Act. This directly impacts those families
whose children have suffered adverse vaccine reactions, Gulf War Veterans,
and any other veteran who suffers from adverse reactions from the multiple
vaccines given (remember the ill-fated anthrax vaccine and small-pox
vaccines).
The most recent bill introduced in the U.S. Senate (S. 3) is aimed at
liability protection of drugs and vaccines and to prevent state legislation
to ban Thimerosal (mercury) in vaccines. This bill is worse than the Eli
Lilly provision of the Homeland Security Act and is a direct â?ogiftâ? to
the pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry gave almost $45
million in campaign contributions for Presidential and Congressional
elections since 2002 (www.opensecrets.org) and the health
care/pharmaceutical industry has over 600 lobbyists in Washington, D.C.
alone. If constituents do not weigh in on this horrendous bill, the
American people will suffer; having their civil rights violated and state
autonomy will be compromised. It is an insult to every state elected
official and every American.
This bill is being â?ofast-trackedâ? and is already on the agenda at the
National Vaccine Advisory Committee meeting, scheduled for February 8, 2005
at 10:45 am: http://www.hhs.gov/nvpo/nvac/agenda.html.
It would also severely limit the public access to any information regarding
vaccine research, vaccine production, vaccine regulations, including, but
not limited to meetings about vaccines and â?ocountermeasuresâ? for
pandemics, epidemics, etc. This bill places severe restrictions on FOIA
and will impact your ability to find out about drug/vaccine safety,
regulation and policy. The last thing this country needs is to give
government the ability to hold more â?oclosedâ? meetings without
accountability to the media/public.
Furthermore, Sec. 761 (a)(1) would preempt any state legislation regulating
vaccines. It would preempt State authority and legislation dealing with
vaccines or vaccines components, such as Thimerosal (mercury). Missouri
currently has three bills pending to ban mercury (Thimerosal) in vaccines.
They are Missouri SB 49, SB74 and HB 131. The States of Iowa and
California have already banned mercury in vaccines yet this bill will
preempt such legislation forcing states to allow vaccine manufacturers to
continue using toxic levels of mercury in vaccines (in excess of Federal
EPA safety guidelines). Numerous other states are pursuing similar
legislation such as Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania and
Washington. Various other states are also planning to introduce
legislation banning mercury in vaccines within the next few weeks/months,
such as Ohio, Illinois, North Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota.
This horrendous piece of Federal legislation would even prohibit the
warning or informed consent provisions for drugs, vaccines and biologics.
Additionally, this bill would prohibit punitive damages and cap
compensatory damages against any pharmaceutical company. This takes the
saying â?oto the victor goes the spoilsâ? to a whole new and ominous
level. If the FDA approves it, the company making it is protected from
liability. We have all seen how attentive the FDA has been to protect
Americans from dangerous drugs such as Vioxx.
This cleverly crafted legislation includes something nearly every American
will understandably want to support: raising the death gratuity for
families of soldiers killed in Iraq from $12,000 to $100,000 and increases
other military benefits. Including an unrelated but popular provision that
should stand alone legislatively seeks only to cloud the issues addressed
in the major portion of this bill's language. Every American supports
increased benefits for our soldiers and their families and that includes
us. As parents and loyal Americans, however, we believe that S. 3 has been
carefully crafted to unfairly paint parents who seek justice for vaccine
injured children into a political corner. Similar to the legislative
sleight of hand employed in the Homeland Security Bill fiasco in 2002 the
sponsors of S.3 are manipulating the political process by tying domestic
programs affecting every American's health and safety to unrelated
"anti-terrorism" programs. In this way they are attempting to make
legitimate opposition to S. 3 politically unacceptable.
We question why politically popular legislation supporting our troops is
tied to a bill with far-reaching provisions that affect and the safety of
vaccines given to millions of American children. Let's not confuse the
issues. We believe that by casting the vaccine safety provisions in the
language of fighting terrorism (epidemic "countermeasures" is S.3's new
code word for "vaccines"--this is truly Orwellian doublespeak) the American
people are being misled about S.3's impact on vaccine safety programs.
Let's deal with one thing at a time. Taking away the right of states to
protect their citizens from dangerous vaccine components and drugs like
Vioxx and Paxil does not translate into protecting our children--from
terrorism or anything else. All it does is give control of these
matters--vaccines and drugs--to a few powerful people who operate behind
closed doors. The vaccine safety provisions are pharma support positions,
plain and simple, and are not necessary for bio-terror defense, at least
not in this form.
It would also overhaul The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program to
the detriment of children and families. Other parts of this legislation
are extremely troublesome as well and we have included a copy in pdf format
for your review. This is not a benign bill--this goes directly to counter
state and parental efforts to protect children from vaccine injuries.
Read a few excerpts below. If this bill is as concerning to you as it is
to other parents and many members of the medical community, please contact
all members of the US Senate, particularly your Senators and members of the
US Senate Finance Committee (see their contact info below). This is not
anti-terrorism--this is Federalism gone wild.
Finance Committee
Republicans on Finance Committee
Grassley Charles R- IA
Chairman, Committee on Finance
135 Hart Senate Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510-1501
Tel: (202) 224.3744
Fax: (202) 228 0578
http://grassley.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Hatch Orrin R- UT
104 Hart Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Tel: (202) 224-5251
Fax: (202) 224-6331
http://hatch.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Contact
Lott Trent R- MS
487 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6253
Fax: 202-224-2262
http://lott.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Email
Snowe, Olympia R-ME
154 Russell Senate Office Buildg.
Washington DC 20510-1903
Ph 202-224-5344
Fax 202-244-1946
olympia@...
Kyl Jon R- AZ
730 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207
http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Thomas, Craig R- WY
United States Senate
307 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: 202-224-6441
Fax: 202-224-1724
http://www.senate.gov/%7Ethomas/html/contact.html
Santorum Rick R- PA
511 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3804
Phone: 202-224-6324
TTYD Number: 202-224-5024
Fax: 202-228-0604
http://santorum.senate.gov
Frist Bill R- TN
Office of Senator Bill Frist
509 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
202-224-3344
202-228-1264 (fax)
http://frist.senate.gov/index.cfm
Smith Gordon R- OR
404 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20510-3704
Phone: (202)224-3753
Fax:(202)228-3997
http://gsmith.senate.gov/webform.htm
Bunning Jim R- KY
1717 Dixie Highway Suite 180
Fort Wright KY, 41011
Phone 859-341-6480
Fax: 859-341-6482
Jim@...
Crapo, Mike R- ID
239 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
phone 202-224-6142
FAX 202-228-1375
TDD 202-224-2806
http://www.crapoforsenate.com/contact_us.asp
Democrats on Finance Committee
Baucus Max D- MT
511 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2651
(202) 224-4700 (Fax)
(800) 332-6106 (from MT)
(202) 224-1998 (TDD)
http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/emailmax.html
Rockefeller, IV, John D. D- WV
531 Hart Senate Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20510
Ph: 202-224-6472
Fax: 202-224-7665
Email Address: senator@...
Conrad, Kent D-ND
530 Hart Senate Office Building
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-3403
Fax: (202) 224-7776
Online: http://conrad.senate.gov
E-mail: http://conrad.senate.gov/webform.html
Jeffords, James (I - VT)
728 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-5141
Fax (202) 228-0776
http://jeffords.senate.gov/contact-form.html
Bingaman, Jeff D- NM
413 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-5141
(202) 224-5521
TDD: (202) 224-1792
http://www.senate.gov/~jeffords/contact-form.html
Kerry, John F D-MA
304 Russell Bldg.
Third Floor
Washington D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2742 - Phone
(202) 224-8525 - Fax
http://kerry.senate.gov/bandwidth/contact/email.html
Lincoln Blanche L. D- AR
355 Dirksen Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510-0404
Phone: (202)224-4843
Fax: (202)228-1371
http://lincoln.senate.gov/webform.html
Wyden Ron D- OR
230 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-3703
(202) 224-5244
fax (202-228-2717)
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Schumer Charles D- NY
313 Hart Senate Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-6542
Fax: 202-228-3027
TDD: 202-224-0420
http://www.senate.gov/%7Eschumer/webform.html
--------------------------------------------------------
Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Classical Homeopath
Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK
$$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account
vaccineinfo@... voicemail US 530-740-0561
(go to http://www.paypal.com) or by mail
Vaccines - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccine.htm
Vaccine Dangers On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm
Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm
ANY INFO OBTAINED HERE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS MEDICAL
OR LEGAL ADVICE. THE DECISION TO VACCINATE IS YOURS AND YOURS ALONE.
******
"Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down.
Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy
knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information
and religions destroy spirituality" ....Michael Ellner
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