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To: Condor who wrote (58820)	11/25/2002 5:18:19 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

This is the part I cannot understand about US legislation. How can an abberation like that occur within a bill presented to the House and Senate? All kinds of unrelated stuff can wind up in bills, and routinely does. That's one reason the President got a line-item veto a few years ago.

To: Condor who wrote (58820)	11/25/2002 8:34:34 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

This is the part I cannot understand about US legislation. This is because Canadian lawyers cannot get away with the Nonsense ours can. It was recently postulated that the minute traces of Mercury used as a preservative in our injectable Vaccines could be the cause of Autism. It has since been rejected, but the talk about it was enough to bring all the sharks to a feeding. With our weak Liability laws, even if untrue, it could have bankrupted our Pharmacutical Companies. They were taking the position that they would not produce the vaccines needed unless they were off the hook for Liability, and I don't blame them. Lilly would have told the Government to stuff it otherwise. The Democrats, who use the Pharmacuticals as a whipping boy, (They get HUGE funding from the trial lawyers) jumped on it.