As I am sure most of you may know by now the Combating Autism Act is in under consideration by the House of Representatives in the Energy and Commerce Committee. Joe Barton, the Chair of the committee, will let the bill go forward if the remaining $45 million for environmental research is stripped out. That will mean that there will be no vaccine research, no mercury research and no environmental research-- Please take a few minutes and follow the lin below to the ACHAMP website where you can send emails directly to your representatives.
http://capwiz. com/a-champ/ issues/alert/ ?alertid= 9178091&type=ML

With this key research ignored almost all the federally-funded scientific research will be the same old dead-end genetics that we have seen yield absolutely nothing except a never ending stream of reports about the newly discovered "autism gene." There must be at least 100 of them by now.
Some argue that we need to compromise. However, we see no evidence of compromise among those who would deny an environmental and vaccine connection to autism. Compromise is not the same thing as surrender.
This bill offers us and our children virtually nothing. This bill will set the research agenda for the next five years. We believe that if Barton persists in this posture that we would be better off waiting for the new committee chair who will take over in a few weeks.
Please contact your Representatives in the House and ask them to insist that the environmental and vaccine research provisions be put back in the bill. And please spread the word though any listservs, yahoogroups, blogs, and other online communities or networks of any kind that you may belong to.
You may see the action alert by following the link below. Thanks for your help and this may be the single most important autidsm issue we have dealt with in the past few years.

http://capwiz. com/a-champ/ issues/alert/ ?alertid= 9178091&type=ML

Sincerely,
John Gilmore