Anything you want legislated, just tack it onto anti-terrorist legislation

Including a law to exempt drug companies from lawsuits.

"The doctors concluded that mercury from thimerosal did exceed federal safety guidelines and that the study provides 'strong epidemiological evidence' for a link between increasing mercury from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism which has reached epidemic proportions."

Eli Lilly developed and sold the preservative thimerosal for more than 40 years.

As with an earlier attempt by Sen. Frist to slip such legislation ("to protect drug companies from thimerosal-related litigation while eliminating legal recourse for families of vaccine-injured, mercury-toxic children," according to Sandy Mintz of Vaccination News) into the Homeland Security Bill, "the legislation is attached to a larger bill that most likely will pass swiftly through the Senate due to its anti-terrorism measures," Ms. Mintz worried, back in March.

The logic, apparently, is that America needs her vaccine manufacturers to respond to the supposed threat of bio-terrorism, so anything that protects vaccine manufacturers from the inconvenience of being sued ... helps fight terrorism.

The Frist bill would have "reformed" the Vaccine Injury Compensation Act of 1986, but would actually have made it harder for parents of injured children to sue -- shuttling them into a special Justice Department "court," capping damage awards, and requiring that they be compensated by the taxpayers (letting the manufacturers off the hook), parents groups charge. article

Well, sure, let the taxpayer bear the burden of Corporate crime - as always.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.