[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 171]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        MERCURY IN VACCINATIONS

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, everybody knows that mercury is a 
toxic substance. If it is spilled on the ground, they evacuate the area 
and they bring in the fire department and they clean it up with all 
kinds of paraphernalia to protect the citizens and the firemen that are 
working on it, and yet it is injected into our children's bodies in our 
vaccinations, and in the Homeland Security bill this year they 
eliminated the possibility of the families who have been damaged and 
the children who have been damaged by the mercury in these vaccines 
from having any chance to get restitution from the pharmaceutical 
companies or from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund. That is 
criminal. It needs to be changed.
  We have the fastest growing epidemic in America and the parents have 
nowhere to go, and it is caused in large part by the mercury in the 
vaccines. This is just tragic. We need to correct that in the technical 
corrections bill very, very quickly so these parents have some 
recourse. They are mortgaging their homes. They are going bankrupt 
trying to take care of these children. One in 10,000 children used to 
be autistic. Now it is one in 180. It is an absolute epidemic and this 
government prohibited the families from finding a way to take care of 
their children, and these kids are going to grow up. These kids are 
going to grow up, and they are going to be a burden on society unless 
we do something about it now.
  And in addition Mr. Speaker, I just found out that the vaccines that 
we are giving to our military personnel who are over in the Persian 
Gulf who may be going to war with Iraq, they are being vaccinated with 
vaccines that contain mercury as well.
  We need to get mercury out of all vaccines and we need to make 
absolutely sure that the parents who have damaged children have some 
course to get restitution this government should not block. It is 
criminal.

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