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NVIC Note:

The Senate is scheduled to vote on the DOD Appropriations bill any minute
now. BUT THERE IS STILL TIME FOR YOU TO CONTACT YOUR SENATOR and protest the
liability shield Senator Frist has given to the drug companies.

GO to www.Senate.gov to find out who your Senator is and then CALL
202-224-3121 to ask for the liability protection language for Big Pharma to
be taken out of the DOD Appropriations Bill.

Tell your Senator you will watch how he or she votes and remember it when
the next election comes around.


http://newstandardnews.net/content/?...em&itemid=2692
NewStandardNews

Senators Would Profit from Bird-flu Bill's Drug Co. Shield

by Brendan Coyne

Dec 20 - Charging that nearly half of the Senate is personally invested in
drug corporations that stand to gain from a measure under consideration, a
consumer organization yesterday called on lawmakers to nix a peculiar
immunity clause from a "must-pass" defense spending bill up for
consideration this week.
Until the House of Representatives approved liability protections for the
pharmaceutical industry as an amendment to the defense appropriations bill
early Monday, opposition groups had been successful in beating it back.
Under the measure, the federal government will invest about $3.8 billion for
vaccine development and other pandemic and biological attack preparedness
efforts, about $3.3 billion of which will go to the Department of Health and
Human Services for drug purchasing and response planning. Additionally, if
the amendment in question becomes law, companies will be granted immunity
from lawsuits over adverse effects from drugs deemed necessary to combat a
public health threat.
In a statement yesterday, the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
(FTCR) warned that the amendment's "language is so broad that any product
considered a 'countermeasure,' not just vaccines, could be protected."
Seeking to re-stoke resistance to the measure, FTCR also pointed out that 42
Senators - 27 Republicans and 15 Democrats - collectively hold over $16
million in stock in the very companies that the bill would place under
protection. The analysis includes immediate family members and is based on
the most recent public finance reports.
Senate leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) dismissed questions about the ethics
of approving legislation tied so closely to one's financial well-being, the
Chicago Tribune reported. "These provisions will ensure that we have the
capacity to develop products to rapidly protect the American people from a
bio-terror attack or flu pandemic," said Frist, who pushed for the provision
to be attached to the defense bill and is already under investigation over
possible ethics violations related to medical company stock he owned.

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