The Secret Dangers of Television
You can see for yourself the power of TV over Life merely by turning on a TV during a party.
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The Sickening Politics Of Vaccine Legislation
By Richard S. Dunham
Business Week Online
Even in an era of hyper-partisanship, it should have been easy. Everyone on Capitol Hill, Republican and Democrat, understands that the U.S. needs emergency legislation designed to speed production of new vaccines aimed at combating future pandemics. Everyone knows drugmakers need a liability shield to protect against the lawsuits that will inevitably spring up when a vaccine is rushed to market. And nearly everyone wants Washington to help Americans who are injured by their shots.
But in Washington nothing is easy, especially when it involves a clash between two bitter enemies -- Hill Republicans and the trial lawyers. The GOP and pharma lobbyists charge that the lawyers and their allies are pulling out all the stops to prevent any erosion of their cherished right to sue at the drop of a hat. But the plaintiffs' attorneys see the Republicans pushing broad relief from lawsuits under the guise of public health. "It's cynical to claim that this is what's needed to deal with avian flu, " says Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.). "The Republican leadership is trying to do another favor for the drug companies."
Obscured by the overheated rhetoric, however, is a key issue: How much compensation should people damaged by these vaccines collect? Kennedy and the trial lawyers say they can support liability protections for drugmakers only if victims are promised full government indemnity. "We are not in any way trying to undermine the vaccine program, " says Association of Trial Lawyers of America lobbyist Linda Lipsen. "In the event that individuals are injured [or] killed, there should be... compensation."
Full indemnity could be a trillion-dollar commitment, but that's completely impractical and unaffordable, Republicans say. During negotiations between Kennedy and Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) on indemnity, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) summoned senators to his office to call off the talks. Indemnity will never fly, he said.
Vague Compensation
Instead, Industry and Frist are backing an effort led by Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Judd Gregg (R-N.H.). They would limit liability to vaccines designated as essential to fighting pandemic flu or other deadly new diseases and would direct the Secretary of Health & Human Services to create a compensation program, with details and funding to be determined later. "We just don't have enough information to set one up now, " argues a GOP staffer.
The pharmaceutical industry, not surprisingly, is firmly behind the GOP. Trial lawyers, advocates for vaccine victims, and others counter that a vague plan for a future compensation program is tantamount to none at all. Somewhere in the middle are public health experts. They want Congress to spur vaccine production while assuring the public it will have a safety net.
When all the smoke clears, that's likely to happen. Supporters plan to attach the Burr liability provision to a spending bill that just enough Democrats -- especially those like Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), who have already backed some form of liability protection -- will be loath to oppose. It won't be pretty, it won't be easy, and it won't be truly bipartisan. But "it's all going to work out, despite the big bad trial lawyers, " says a pro-industry lobbyist.
By Richard S. Dunham and John Carey, with Lorraine Woellert and Eamon Javers
CAPITAL WRAPUP
Business Digs Deep For Pro-Trade Dems
Union leaders vowed to shut the fund-raising spigots for 15 House Democrats who broke ranks with their party in July to vote for the Central America Free Trade Agreement. But new Federal Election Commission reports indicate that business has more than compensated for labor's closed wallets.
A BusinessWeek analysis of political action committee receipts for the first nine months of 2005 finds that unions provided an average of 16.1% of the PAC money raised by CAFTA Dems -- down from 22.1% in the 2004 election. But business donations surged to 76.7% of the CAFTA 15's PAC money, from 66.3% that these pro-business Dems received in 2003-04. Corporate interests have already pumped more than $100, 000 into the coffers of 10 of the 15 Democrats.
Business efforts included a September fund-raiser hosted by leaders of the Business Roundtable, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the Electronic Industries Alliance. Bernadette Budde, senior vice-president of Business Industry PAC, says executives also will hold local events to make sure that Democrats "do not suffer for the [pro-trade] positions they have taken." First up: helping friendly Democrats such as Representatives Henry Cuellar of Texas and Gregory Meeks of New York, who face primary races against labor-backed foes.
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Dr. Benjamin Spock - Seducer of Mommy and Child
After reading "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care", I was very much puzzled that a book full of such bad advice could reach such high esteem as to have sold over 30 million copies since 1946.
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Bird Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
If their proposal is so essential to the public health, why are proponents attempting to add it stealthily, while the American public isn’t watching? The truth is their proposal has nothing to do with public health and safety and everything to do with unnecessary giveaways to drug companies. The proposal includes language not included in any House or Senate passed bill—language that provides the drug companies with sweeping legal protections, releasing them from virtually all accountability. The proposal is so broad that it applies to a wide range of commercial drugs and products that may have nothing to do with bioterrorism or a potential pandemic. It even applies to commercial drugs already on the market for which drug companies are making billions of dollars.
Under the proposed language, drug company immunity is triggered if the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) 1) declares an actual or potential public health emergency and 2) declares a drug, vaccine, or device a “countermeasure” or qualifying “pandemic or epidemic product.” Once this occurs, drug companies are virtually immune from all liability. The proposal:
Applies to a wide range of drugs, vaccines, and other products. The proposal provides that any “drug, biological product or device that is used to mitigate, prevent, treat, or cure a pandemic or epidemic or limit the harm such pandemic or epidemic might otherwise cause…” may be covered and given immunity. The proposal does not, in any way, limit its application only to new drugs or vaccines used in a pandemic context. The scope of the proposal is so broad that it could include drugs like Tylenol, Advil or Vioxx.
Immunizes drug companies by erecting insurmountable barriers to the court system. Citizens can’t go to court unless the Secretary of HHS gives them permission. The proposal bars injured individuals from filing a claim against a manufacturer of a covered product, even in cases of gross negligence. The only exception to the grant of wholesale immunity is in the case of “willful misconduct.” An injured person may ask the Secretary of HHS to find that the manufacturer acted with willful misconduct and allow a case against a drug company to go forward. The Secretary has the sole discretion to investigate or to simply decline the petition. Because the Secretary is bound by an entirely new definition of “willful misconduct” it is virtually impossible for the Secretary to ever allow a claim to go forward. The proposal mandates the Secretary of HHS, together with the Attorney General, promulgate regulations defining what is meant by “willful misconduct” and requires them to find that the drug company had actual knowledge that their product would harm the petitioning individual. This requirement means that only conduct that would also constitute assault, battery or murder would be sufficient for the Secretary to find “willful misconduct.”
Includes severe restrictions even if a claim is allowed. In the unlikely event the Secretary allows a claim to go forward because he has found sufficient evidence a drug company intentionally and willfully injured or killed a person, the following restrictions would still apply:
- An exclusive federal cause of action, barring individuals from filing a claim in their own state court under state law;
- A $250, 000 cap on noneconomic damages, even if the willful conduct of the drug company caused a person’s death or lifelong disability.
- No punitive damages allowed—even though the only way a person can get to court is if the Secretary has already determined the drug company specifically intended to harm that individual.
Fails to specify any time limitation for application of immunity. Under the plan, immunity may be triggered at any time because the Secretary of HHS is given broad and unfettered discretion to declare a “public health emergency” when he or she decides there is an actual or potential threat of a pandemic occurring. This could occur tomorrow in light of new risks posed by such diseases as avian flu. Once this declaration occurs, anything deemed a “countermeasure” under the proposal receives wholesale liability protection. A drug or vaccine is shielded from liability whether or not it is actually given in response to a flu pandemic health emergency.
Fails to provide any alternative compensation remedy and is therefore wholly unconstitutional. This proposal sweeps away a host of rights under state and federal law for persons who may be injured by drugs and vaccines. Yet the proposal neither establishes nor provides access to an alternative compensation system. The Supreme Court of the United States has repeatedly made clear that constitutional rights, including specifically an injured person’s right to a jury trial, may not be simply eliminated. The legislature must offer a reasonably equivalent right to a remedy.
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The Fraud of Medical Marijuana
Why is it that alcohol is condoned and encouraged while marijuana smoking is prohibited?
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Critics question provision in vaccine plan
Source: 13 Eye Witness News
Tom Walker/Washington Bureau Chief
Washington D.C., Nov. 29 - The government's strategy for fighting bird flu includes doing everything possible to keep it from becoming a pandemic in the first place.
President George W. Bush has said, "The best way to deal with it is to isolate and contain it in the region in which it begins."
In case that fails, Congress is working up a $7 billion plan to encourage production of potentially life saving vaccines.
But critics are now taking aim at a part of the plan they say would also give drug makers sweeping new protection from lawsuits, protection they say goes beyond bird flu.
"A couple of cases of measles could be considered an epidemic that then would be covered under this legislation." Barbara Loe Fisher runs the watch-dog group National Vaccine Information Center that she founded after her son developed learning disabilities she believes were related to childhood vaccine.
She and other critics of the pharmaceutical industry, including Indiana Congressman Dan Burton, are gearing up to oppose the liability provisions.
President Bush and others say the number of makers of vaccine has plunged, largely because of fear of lawsuits. And they argue that without protection companies won't make the drugs.
But there is growing opposition from groups, including the politically powerful Association of Trial Lawyers, that say
fear of pandemic should not close the courthouse door to those injured.
"Certainly when it happens to you or to a loved one, " says Fisher, "when you're the one that gets hurt, things look very different."
This is shaping up as a bitter struggle that could have an impact on drug makers like Eli Lilly and Company that don't make vaccines, but could be ramping up production of other medicines that might be needed in a bird flu pandemic.
Legislation drafted by Republicans would only allow lawsuits against makers of pandemic vaccines if there were willful misconduct.
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Government back up for small business
The Federation of Small Businesses has called on the Government to put its money in key areas of growth, especially by the Small Business Community in 2006 & deliver on key promises made to them.
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A New Ultra-Secret Government Agency
Source: OMB Watch
Legislation is moving in the Senate to create a new government agency to combat bioterrorism that will operate, unlike any other agency before it, under blanket secrecy protection.
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) has introduced the Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005, S1873, that would create a new agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to research and develop strategies to combat bioterrorism and natural diseases. While Congress has created several agencies recently in response to homeland security concerns, most notably the Department of Homeland Security, Burr proposes for the first time ever to completely exempt this new agency from all open government laws. The legislation has already passed out of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions and is now before the full Senate.
The Act creates the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency (BARDA) to work on countering bioterrorism and natural diseases. Apparently in an attempt to protect any and all sensitive information on U.S. counter-bioterrorism efforts or vulnerabilities to biological threats, Burrs has included in the legislation the first-ever blanket exemption from the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The legislation states that, "Information that relates to the activities, working groups, and advisory boards of the BARDA shall not be subject to disclosure" under FOIA "unless the Secretary [of HHS] or Director [of BARDA] determines that such disclosure would pose no threat to national security."
Neither the CIA nor the Defense Department has such an exemption. Burr’s spokesperson argues that the exemption is necessary to protect national security claiming that "there will be times where for national security reasons certain information would have to be withheld." For instance, the BARDA should not, according to the spokesperson, be required to publicly disclose information pertaining to a deadly virus.
FOIA, however, already includes an exemption for national security information, as well as eight other exemptions ranging from privacy issues to confidential business information and law enforcement investigations. If the public disclosure of information would threaten national security, then the government may withhold the requested information. "The well-established and time-tested FOIA provisions already address Burr's concerns, " explains Sean Moulton, OMB Watch senior policy analyst, "thereby making the blanket exemption for BARDA unnecessary and unwise."
Congress established and strengthened FOIA over the years to create a reasonable, consistent level of accountability among government agencies. Under FOIA, when the public requests agency records, the agency is compelled to collect and review the requested information. The only decision for the agency is whether specific records can or can not be released under the law based on the exemptions from disclosure written into the law. However, the Burr legislation reverses the process: it does not require BARDA to collect or review the requests for disclosure. Instead, the agency can automatically reject requests. Still more troubling, the law prohibits any challenges of determinations by the Director of BARDA or Secretary of HHS, stating that the determination of the Director or Secretary with regards to the decision to withhold information "shall not be subject to judicial review."
Mark Tapscott at the Heritage Foundation writes that "BARDA will essentially be accountable to nobody and can operate without having to worry about troublesome interference from courts or private citizens like you and me."
This move to restrict the reach of FOIA appears in stark contrast to the recent Senate vote to strengthen open government. Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) co-sponsored FOIA reform legislation, passed by the Senate in June, that "will bring additional sunshine to the federal legislative process, and was another step toward strengthening the Freedom of Information Act."
The Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act also exempts BARDA from important parts of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, which requires public disclosure of advice given to the executive branch by advisory committees, task forces, boards and commissions.
Other provisions of the bill compound the troubling secrecy provisions. They include:
- Giving BARDA the authority to sign exclusive contracts with drug manufacturers and forbidding the agency from purchasing generic versions of these drugs or vaccines.
- Authorizing BARDA to issue grants and rebates for drug companies to produce vaccines.
- Providing liability protection to drug manufacturers for drugs and vaccines not approved by the Food and Drug Administration, by requiring the secretary of HHS find that a drug company willfully caused injury.
"It is essential that open government safeguards remain in place for all agencies, " Moulton continues. "It is extremely important to ensure that the nation is protected against pandemics and bioterrorist attacks, but such efforts must not be excluded from open government. By providing the mechanisms for government accountability, these safeguards ensure that the government meets its responsibility to protect the public. In the end, an accountable government is a stronger government which acts to effectively meet all threats, including pandemics and bioterrorism."
Burr is still in the process of revising the Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act, and, with the Senate's incredibly tight schedule, the timing of the bill's introduction on the floor remains uncertain. In the meantime, supporters are rumored to be seeking out a Democratic cosponsor to give it momentum.
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An Ill Wind Blows into a Child's Life
Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in autistic children
By James Ottar Grundvig
Special to The Epoch Times
Most Americans remember with clarity where they were when they first heard the news of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center.
Life-defining moments like 9/11 are those rare events that reshape society and culture, forever changing how people take stock of their lives. This holds especially true for those who witnessed the tragedy firsthand.
For me, a rooftop witness to the fire and smoke that poured out of the Twin Towers, the day after 9/11 has lingered in my mind with equal brilliance and anxiety. Confined at home with work closed, my son and I appeared safe in the shutdown city with Navy jets flying over the empty skyline. And why shouldn't I have felt that way? We lived Uptown at 94th Street and Third Avenue on the opposite end of the island, six miles away from the smoldering ruins of the collapsed buildings that made up the World Trade Center complex.
Yet what happened that morning unnerved me. With our 14th floor living room window ajar, I began to smell an acrid, burning smoke that I had never smelled before. I raced around the apartment looking for the source of the fire. I found nothing. Watching my son, Fridrik, play by the open window, wondering where the pungent odor was coming from, I had a delayed reaction. The smoke that I saw drift east to Brooklyn on 9/11, blew north as the wind changed direction the next day. I closed the window. But my gut feeling told me it was too late.
A Child Sickens
By the next morning, Fridrik began to cough. It was a dry, hacker's cough as if he had smoked cigarettes for twenty years. Within a week, he developed an acute ear infection—the only one of his life. On the 25th of September, my wife and I took Fridrik to see his pediatrician. This was the same doctor who told us one year before that an infant's lungs develop over the first three years. So when we inquired about taking him swimming the only restriction the doctor emphasized was "no dunking." With the cough still persisting weeks after the insult, the pediatrician gave Fridrik his only prescription of penicillin in his life. It wasn't for the cough, but the ear infection. Although the cough dissipated over time, the thought about what toxic chemicals had invaded my son's lungs never left me.
If pool water is bad for an infant, then how much worse would be the scorched air emanating out of Ground Zero? The answer came more than three years later, and almost two years after Fridrik had been diagnosed with autism.
On Valentine's Day, we decided to forego the ritual romantic dinner and took Fridrik to see a doctor. The results were in for his red blood cell analysis test, which profile the metal makeup of a person's body—from essential (good) metals, like zinc and iron, to heavy metals that can be harmful. When we learned that our son was carrying high amounts of mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic in him, we were at a loss. How did he become so "dirty" at such a young age? Having done extensive research into the vaccine-thimerosal (a mercury-based preservative used in many vaccines), we knew we would find mercury in him, but not the other three neurotoxins.
The Danger of Ground Zero
It took only the subway ride home from the doctor's office for the burnt smell of 9/12 to come racing back. We began to research and interview people, including several New York journalists, to see if those heavy metals in Fridrik were present in the World Trade Center. In short, we discovered that computers carry high amounts of mercury; cadmium can be found in light fixtures; and arsenic and lead in the steel. The World Trade Center, which comprised a small city of 60, 000 people, with computers on every desk and light fixtures in every room and corridor, became the focus for the secondary source of heavy metal poisoning.
We learned that the EPA air monitoring stations were setup at the northern-most limit of 14th Street—a good eighty blocks from where we lived—but a poor location to get a true sampling of what was airborne. More research brought home a frightening fact. The intense fires, which appeared to vaporize everything in their path, released the superheated heavy metals into the air. And when the particles of lead and arsenic cooled off, far from the source of the heat, they shrank in size and collected on the dust and drifted, in Fridrik's case, uptown into our home and in his lungs.
I was never concerned about asbestos or other PCB, cancer-causing chemicals harming him. His exposure was limited in time. But after learning that mercury from the baby vaccines had shutdown Fridrik's glutathione, or his ability to filter out neurotoxins, I knew that he had more than enough exposure to ingest the bad stuff—something far worse than being dunked in a pool.
The Metals Around Us
What parents of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) children need to know is that heavy metals, which come from the earth's crust, cannot be destroyed, incinerated, or broken down any further. Once inside an ASD kid, mercury and the rest can stay there for up to a third of his or her life if not treated.
Fridrik wasn't the only child on the spectrum, a "human" magnet collecting heavy metals in the city when 9/11 occurred. And the Upper East Side wasn't the only area in the city to be hit by the poisonous air that cooked for more than a month after the towers collapsed. There are other children who were insulted, adding to the "bioaccumulation" problem that impacts their speech, amplifies their senses, and zaps their nervous system.
Finally, there are other 9/11-like events that put ASD children in harm's way: the fires in the wake of Hurricane Katrina; the cities that burned in the riots that plague France. There are also more innocuous sources, from the water we drink to the air tainted by industrial plants.
For children like Fridrik, the struggle has not only been treating him for toxins that have made a home in his body and brain, but trying to prevent primary (vaccines) and secondary sources of heavy metals from leeching again into his body and not out.
James Ottar Grundvig lives and works in New York City. He is the father of an autistic child.
Please also read Autism's Razor: Epidemic's Cause Found, and How Can a Child Forget a Parent's Face?.
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EMERGENCY ALERT, DAY 2!
POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGN
WITH YOUR HELP, WE JAMMED PHONE LINES ON CAPITOL HILL YESTERDAY TO PROTECT VACCINE-INJURED CHILDREN’S RIGHTS—WE MUST KEEP UP THE PRESSURE!!!
- Pharmaceutical Liability Protection Language is now EVERYWHERE in pending legislation on Capitol Hill, and we must speak up NOW on behalf of our children.
- We need to get on the phones again today and tomorrow to fight the most sweeping threat so far to our children’s rights.
- THIS IS WORSE THAN THE FRIST LEGISLATION. OUR CHILDREN WILL GET NOTHING.
- Our sources in Washington tell us that Pharma-protection language will be inserted into as much legislation as possible between now and Thursday. There are already ten different bills on Capitol Hill -- S3, S975, S1437, S1828, S1873, S1880, HR650, HR3154, HR3970, HR4245 -- that contain provisions which will let drug companies off the hook for injuries resulting from vaccines and other products.
- Other appropriations bills are being considered for similar provisions. If the provisions are attached to an appropriations bill WE CANNOT STOP IT!!!
HERE’S WHAT WE NEED TO DO:
THE POWER OF PARENTS CALL-IN CAMPAIGN, DAY 2
- Get on the phone ASAP!!!
- Our ONLY defense is to prevent anything from being attached!
- 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 their disregard for safety.
- Remind them that their constituents are watching them very closely and will remember who supports the children, and who supports Big Pharma. They 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.
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!
A-CHAMP will send out updates on the situation on Capitol Hill as they receive them.
Dear Senator (or Representative) _________:
Re: SAY NO TO UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY LIABILITY PROTECTION FOR VACCINE MANUFACTURERS
I respectfully request that you act to protect the rights of vaccine injured children by blocking the unfair liability immunity giveaway proposed for pharmaceutical companies.
There are ten bills that we know about that contain language that unnecessarily limits the rights of children injured by vaccines. These include S3, S975, S1437, S1828, S1873, S1880, HR650, HR3154, HR3970, and HR4245. 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. Enactment of this legislation 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 provides unprecedented immunity to a vaccine industry that has caused tragic injury to some children. Such liability protection is unnecessary.
Current laws adequately protect vaccine manufacturers. There have been very few vaccine injury claims against vaccine makers over the past 30 years. The true reason for the apparent lack of vaccine manufacturing capacity is the pattern of merger and consolidation in the pharmaceutical industry and market factors unrelated to liability concerns that make vaccines economically difficult to produce. National health authorities such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Walter Orenstein have said that the liability concerns are not causing the problems. The Government Accountability Office ("GAO") and other respected authorities said the same.
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.
I know that families of vaccine injured children and their friends are watching the actions of legislators very closely. As a legislator you must choose whose interests you protect: the interests of injured children, or the financial interests of the drug industry.
Please do all in your power to see that none of the provisions that take away children's rights are enacted.
Sincerely,
CALL ALL of these Senators (and three House Members) ASAP!!! Our sources in Washington tell us that Senators Frist, Santorum, and Graham, and Congressmen Hastert and Barton are especially important for us to focus on right now.
Senator Bill Frist (TN) Phone: (202) 224-3344 Fax: (202) 228-1264
Senator Rick Santorum (PA) Phone: (202) 224-6324 Fax: (202) 228-0604202-224-3344
Senator Thad Cochran (MS) (Chairman) Phone: (202) 224-5054 Fax: (202) 224-9450
Senator Ted Stevens (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 Christopher Bond (MO) Phone: (202) 224-5721 Fax: (202) 224-8149
Senator Mitch McConnell (KY) Phone: (202) 224-2541 Fax: (202) 224-2499
Senator Richard Shelby (AL) Phone: (202) 224-5744 Fax: (202) 224-3416
Senator Judd Gregg (NH) Phone: (202) 224 – 3324 Fax: (202) 224 - 4952
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX) Phone: 202-224-5922 Fax: 202-224-0776
Senator Conrad Burns (MT) Phone: 202-224-2644 Fax: 202-224-8594
Sen. Daniel Inouye (Ranking Member) (HI) Phone: 202-224-3934 Fax: 202-224-6747
Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV) Phone: 202-224-3954 Fax: 202-228-0002
Senator Patrick Leahy (VT) Phone: 202-224-4242 Fax: 202-224-3479
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 Richard 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. Edward Kennedy (MA) Phone: 202-224-4543 Fax: 202-224-2417
Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) DC Phone: 202-224-5344 Fax: 202-224-1946
Sen. Susan Collins (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. John McCain (AZ) Phone: 202-224-2235 Fax: 202-228-2862
Sen. Lindsay Graham DC Phone: 202-224-5972 Fax: 202-224-3808
Congressman Dennis Hastert (IL) Phone: 202-225-2976 Fax: 202-225-0697
Congressman Joe Barton (TX) Phone: (202) 225-2002 Fax: (202) 225-3052
Congressman Jerry Lewis (Chair, House Appropriations) Phone: 202-225-3801 Fax: 202-225-0351
Think Autism. Think Cure.
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