Ann-OH
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Good for Senator Dodd! The bill has been moved to the right committee already. I haven't been able to get the full text as it wasn't available on the site below. Here are the basics. Ann - OH
Title: A bill to provide for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee.
Sponsor: Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] (introduced 7/25/2005)
Cosponsors (1)
Latest Major Action: 7/25/2005 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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How come important posts like this get hardly any responses, while others less important are swamped with replies? No answer needed.
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Interesting that Santorum is the one co-sponsor. I wonder if Arlen Specter (sp) would also co-sponsor.
I thought I saw something in my son's llmd office months ago about Arlen and lyme.
Thanks, Ann Oh, I found it.
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The text of the Senate bill is now posted. Just go to http://thomas.loc.gov/ put the word "Lyme" in the search box and hit search and you will find all three bills, 2 house and 1 senate.
If you click on any of them, you will get the text for that bill, and you can check the current status, cosponsors, etc. there too.
Sorry the site I gave in my first post didn't work. I found that the query ones last only a short while.
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Does anyone know the approximate length of time it takes for health related bill proposals to move from committee to the floor for a vote?
How can we find out who else serves on this senate committee so we can write them?????
Has there ever been a federal lyme proposal before?
Years ago, lou reported, 23,000 people signed a lyme petition.........
and it seems our numbers were great for the New York effort months ago........
so our outpouring of emails and letters now could/should be even greater than the petitioners
What could we be doing now????
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The new house bill is described below. It was presented on Tuesday by Smith and Kelly. Ann-OH
H.R.3427 Title: To provide for the expansion of Federal efforts concerning the prevention, education, treatment, and research activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including the establishment of a Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee.
Sponsor: Rep Smith, Christopher H. [NJ-4] (introduced 7/26/2005) Cosponsors (1)
Latest Major Action: 7/26/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COSPONSORS(1), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date) Rep Kelly, Sue W. [NY-19] - 7/26/2005
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