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Topic: TODAY- 2 PM! Congressional Hearing- Lyme Issues

Tincup
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Good news for Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Click on link below- then go to the Committee Calendar to the 2 PM session that says: Examining Public Health Legislation to Help Local Communities.

Pat Smith, President of the Lyme Disease Association (LDA), is the only one speaking to Congress on our behalf. Go Pat, go!!!! And thank you!!

http://energycommerce.house.gov/

More information:

The Lyme Disease Association, Inc. (LDA) announces that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing to include tick-borne diseases legislation (HR 610) at 2 PM, Wednesday, November 20, 2013 in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC.

Congressman Joseph Pitts (PA) will chair the hearing.

LDA President Pat Smith will testify on HR 610, discussing the serious and growing threat of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases (TBD), the dire effects on patients, many of whom are children, and the economic impacts and the need for a patient voice in the process.

The hearing entitled, "Examining Public Health Legislation to Help Local Communities," will focus on seven bills on different subjects, including HR 610, to provide for the Establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee.

HR 610 was authored and introduced by Congressman Christopher H. Smith (NJ), with Representatives Wolf (VA), Gibson (NY) and Peterson (MN) as original co-sponsors. The Energy and Commerce Committee should be commended for placing TBD legislation on the agenda.

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Tincup
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I posted here (Medical Section) due to the late hour and little notice that was given that our Lyme issues will be included in the hearing today. It was just finalized last evening, so trying to get the word out there.

[Big Grin]

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Tincup
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UP!

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Tincup
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An hour delay starting.. but now in progress.

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Tincup
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Uggggg... Pallone! NOT friendly, not Lyme literate.

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DaveNJ
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thanks for posting this Tincup.

Dave

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Tincup
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You are very welcome! It was a good hearing. Some asked questions afterward and that helped get the word out there too.

Amazing Pat- she can respond when hit with any question and do a great job with it because she knows this stuff so well.

Good thing SHE was there- and NOT me! HA!

I'd have bit Pallone on his ankle for his hostile attitude and tossed him to the gator pit for sure.

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beaches
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Thanks TC for posting this.

And thanks to Pat Smith. She is one amazing lady.

Seems to me that your presence there would have been productive, between the ankle biting and the gator pit throwing...

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