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Senator Harry Reid has been a
strong voice in the U.S. Senate for asbestos cancer victims. He has fought
hard to protect the rights of patients to seek justice in the civil courts.
He has worked tirelessly to defeat the bail out bill. And he has championed
the need for the federal government to fund a mesothelioma research and
treatment program, especially for navy veterans. L to R, Ann Worthington,
Sen. Harry Reid, Roger Worthington (April, 2006, Corona Del Mar, CA) |
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Protecting Rights, Building Hope. R.
Worthington thanking U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (Illinois) for delivering a
moving keynote speech at the 2006 MARF
conference in Chicago, flanked by meso survivor and
client John McNamara. Worthington founded MARF in
1999, at a time when many of his lawyer colleagues refused to support the
non-partisan effort to fund research for a cure. |
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"S. 852 is
simply bad public policy. This is not tort reform, it is a new
government program that is staggeringly complicated and
unworkable. It creates a $140 billion new tax on businesses
and insurers. It unfairly benefits a handful of insider
companies.. . . And it will most assuredly go broke, leaving
U.S. taxpayers on the hook. "The Senate should vote down S.
852 and start over . . ." --
Former U.S. House Majority
Leader Dick Armey (R-Tex). |
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"I was taught that you run your
business in an ethical manner," he says. "If I hadn't seen the
documentation that these companies knew what they were doing,
I wouldn't have pursued this. But I'm angry."
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Terry McCann, Los Angeles Times, February 20, 2006. |
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Protesting SB
852! - Letters From Mesothelioma Patients
and Their
Families Urge Senators to Defeat SB
852
(4/21/05)
No
to Corporate Bail Outs. No to SB 852
RGW (4/18/05)
Last Updated on July 18, 2005
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Senator
Warner: "support research and
treatment", James Zuwalt.
(7/17/06)
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ATLA:
Asbestos Bill Remains $20 Billion Corporate
Bailout for
Asbestos Companies That Knowingly Poisoned People
(6/5/06)
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A Mesothelioma Patient's Plea
Asbestos is the
devil's shill!
When breathed it makes us very ill.
Where once inside it sets a fire,
Whose flames grow ever higher and higher.
Some call it meso, some a curse!
Men, women, old and young get worse.
Because no treatment's known to cure,
This tumor the exposed endure.
For each of us,
our heart's desire,
Would be a way to quench this fire!
Omentum, diaphragm and lung,
We lost when cancer's trap was sprung.
Our suffering
erodes our will,
We've tasted chemo's bitter pill,
With scalpels scarred and photons burned,
We've paid the price that meso's earned.
Please help us fight to save the lives,
Of sons and husbands, daughters, wives.
Those dying and all those who follow,
The thousands more who'll die tomorrow.
For those
afflicted there's no choice,
But fight to stay the cancer's course.
Let research give them tools to fight,
And set this deadly wrong to right.
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Please
encourage your government to provide funding into mesothelioma
research! Write your congressman and senators today to
support research rather than the FAIR
Act which seeks to pardon the asbestos companies who
unleashed this poison on the public.
Klaus A. Brauch
Right Pleural Epithelial Mesothelioma |
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S.
852: A Budget Buster. How
the Asbestos Bailout Bill Busts the Budget and
Burdens the Taxpayers with Billions in Debt
(2/12/06)
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No
Money for a Cure over Last 60 years, but over $8.245 Million
for Lobbyists in Only 6 Months (2/7/06)
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Testimony before the U.S.
Senate Committee on the Judiciary, January 11,
2005
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Billie
Speicher, Mesothelioma Patient, Ontario, California
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Michael Forscey, on behalf of The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
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Margaret Seminario, Director, Safety
and Health Department, American Federation
Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations
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Message to
Congress: Clean Up
the Mess by Banning Asbestos, Funding Medical Research and
Compensating the Seriously Injured.
Paul Zygielbaum , Jan. 7, 2005
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Federal-Mogul Corporation
and Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors of Federal-Mogul Oppose
National
Asbestos Trust Fund Proposal as Fatally Flawed (1/7/05)
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Proposed
Senate Bill 1125 Bails
Out Asbestos Corporations, Betrays Asbestos Cancer Patients
Please read! Counter arguments to Bill:
Fund inadequate, Delays unavoidable, Bankruptcy Overrated, Huge
Corporate windfall, Victims lose, Rule of Law bludgeoned.
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Protesting SB 1125!
- Letters From Mesothelioma Patients
and Their Families Urge Senators to Defeat SB 1125
Media
Campaign Against SB 1125/2290
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