Perhaps this is enough to arrest Senator Frisk .. and according to the article, some people who are in the White House.
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The Animal Connection Healing Modalities http://members.tripod.com/~MLSchmidt/ http://allcreatureconnections.org >From: Sheri Nakken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: (Recipient list suppressed) >Subject: [Vaccine Info] REVISED URL - Vaccine Makers helped write >Frist-backed shield law >Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 12:35:33 +0100 > >Vaccine makers helped write Frist-backed shield law > E-Mails reveal private meetings > >Monday, 05/08/06 >http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006605080356 > >By Bill Theobald >Tennessean Washington Bureau > >Published: Monday, 05/08/2006 > >WASHINGTON Vaccine industry officials helped shape legislation behind >the scenes that Senate Majority >Leader Bill Frist secretly amended into a bill to shield them from >lawsuits, according to e-mails obtained by a >public advocacy group. > >E-mails and documents written by a trade group for the vaccine-makers >show the organization met privately >with Frist's staff and the White House about measures that would give >the industry protection from lawsuits >filed by people hurt by the vaccines. > >The communications were made public in a report released this week by >the group Public Citizen. Its study follows a February story in The >Tennessean that Frist, along with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., >ordered the vaccine liability language inserted in a defense spending >bill in December without debate and in violation of usual Senate >practice. > >The group, called the Biotechnology Industry Organization, wanted such >language in the bill, the e-mails reflect. > >"At Senator Frist's staff's request, this morning, BIO (Tom and I) >participated in a meeting with three other industry representatives >(Sanofi and an outside counsel who works for both Pfizer and Roche, I >believe), administration staff (HHS, DoJ and WH Leg Affairs), and Liz >Hall to further discuss liability," BIO official Dave Boyer wrote in a >November e-mail obtained by Public Citizen. > >In a written statement, Frist spokeswoman Amy Call stated that the >senator had promised publicly to include the vaccine liability >protection in the defense spending bill. She did not address the issue >of the influence of industry lobbyists. > >The statement points out that the Public Citizen board includes >prominent trial lawyers and liberals. "Trial lawyers oppose these >provisions because it will strip them of the ability to line their >pockets at the expense of the American public," Call said. > >Frist and the White House reached out to the industry, according to the >communications cited by Public Citizen, and Boyer, chief lobbyist for >the industry group, was asked to provide an analysis of draft >legislation. > >The group asked that the legislation make clear that a vaccine maker >could only be successfully sued if "willful misconduct" on its part >were proved. The law includes that standard and says a company is >protected from claims of negligence or recklessness. > >The analysis, which Public Citizen quoted from, included BIO's concerns >that the draft bill would >have still allowed people hurt by vaccines to get jury trials. > >"The lack of any restriction on jury trial is problematic," the >analysis said. "Where injured parties >have no other avenue for relief, juries are likely to find ways to >award damages." > >In another e-mail, Boyer described a meeting in which a deputy of Bush >strategist Karl Rove said it was "important to the President that a >bill move this year," and said "they had invited industry to discuss >what they understood to be a few key remaining points" of contention. > >"The intimacy of this, we think, is quite unusual," said Joan >Claybrook, president of Public Citizen, about the relationship between >the organization's lobbyists, Frist and the Bush administration. "We >think it is an interesting case study of how the inside operation works >in Washington." > >In a January interview with The Tennessean, Frist denied the vaccine >liability provisions were added improperly. Later, when others >challenged his version of events, Call simply restated Frist's >commitment to protecting people from a bioterror emergency. > >Frist and other backers say the law is needed to boost the number of >vaccine makers. Vaccine shortages during last year's flu season along >with fears of a pandemic of bird flu or a bioterror attack have >prompted interest in building up the country's lagging vaccine >industry. The legal protections kick in only when the secretary of >health and human services declares a public health emergency. > >Alan Eisenberg, executive vice president for the Biotechnology Industry >Organization, said the group's "staff acted with the utmost integrity >and professionalism, as they do on all issues." "BIO staff regularly >comment on proposed legislation from, and meet with, Democrat and >Republican lawmakers and their staffs alike all the time," Eisenberg >said. > > > >ACTIONS SPARKED BY VACCINE LIABILITY LAW > >What has happened since the vaccine liability measure passed Congress >and was signed into law: > In February, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and 19 other congressional >Democrats sent a letter to Sen. Bill Frist, >R-Tenn., and Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., asking that they repeal the >vaccine law. > On Wednesday, the Senate approved a Kennedy-authored amendment to an >emergency spending bill for Iraq and hurricane victims that provides >$289 million for a compensation fund established in the Frist >legislation for people >injured by vaccines. > >This is a printer friendly version of an article from the The >Tennessean. > >-------------------------------------------------------- >Sheri Nakken, R.N., MA, Hahnemannian Homeopath >Vaccination Information & Choice Network, Nevada City CA & Wales UK >$$ Donations to help in the work - accepted by Paypal account >[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 >Reality of the Diseases & Treatment - >http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/vaccineclass.htm >Homeopathy On-Line course - http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/homeo.htm > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
