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House passes gun lawsuit shield legislation
WASHINGTON, Oct 20, 2005 (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush for his signature legislation giving the U.S. gun industry sweeping protection from civil lawsuits.
Congress Set to Pass Law Eliminating Liability For Vaccine Injuries
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is calling the "Biodefense and Pandemic Vaccine and Drug Development Act of 2005"(S. 1873), which passed out of the U.S. Senate HELP Committee one day after it was introduced "a drug company stockholder's dream and a consumer's worst nightmare." The proposed legislation will strip Americans of the right to a trial by jury if harmed by an experimental or licensed drug or vaccine that they are forced by government to take whenever federal health officials declare a public health emergency.
House bans fast-food lawsuits
WASHINGTON, March 10, 2004 (CNN) -- The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill Wednesday to ban lawsuits by obese customers who say they became overweight by eating at fast-food restaurants.
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No Pattern Here
The vaccine bill was merely reported out of committee.
If the government forces people to take a drug, their beef is with the government, not the drug companies.
55 House Democrats voted for the obesity bill (H.R.339).
Without their support, this bill would barely have passed the House. The bill appears to have died in the Senate.
59 House Democrats and 13 Senate Democrats voted for the gun bill (H.R.493/S.397). Without their support, this bill would barely have passed.
Of course there is a pattern
Of course there is a pattern here. Big business is calling in their IOUs from the Republicans, as well as the DLC Republican-Lite DINOS. Specifically, special interest groups like the NRA, gun manufacturers, pharmaceuticals, and the food industry. Tie that in to the recent gifts to the oil and energy industries, and the pattern is obvious.
You fail to make the distinction between real Democrats, and those who have turned their backs on us. The DLC is just as guilty as the neocons, and they all answer to the same corporate pimps.
DINOs
The DINO designation may not be fair to some of the Democrats who voted for these bills. Senators Byrd, Kohl and Reid voted for the gun. Are they DINOs ? My naive impression from what I've read over the years is that Byrd is a legend and Kohl is an icon. I'm fairly certain that NRA et al despise Kohl. If minority leader Reid and those two are DINOs, then somebody better send me a road map.
Dave
Kohl, Reid, and Byrd?
Is that all it took?
It's possible that those three voted they way they did because of their constituencies.
Fact is, that without the DINOs, it wouldn't have mattered, now would it?
We're not going to have a two party system until the DINOs are dumped.
My dog is smarter than your president.
The pattern
The Republicans can't get an outright ban or cap on all legal activity against corporations, so they're going at it piecemeal.
It's what they do with so many issues, like abortion. They nibble around the edges, eating the easiest to get at parts first, then pretty soon they've eaten the whole pie.
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com