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Senate Panel Drops
Vaccine-Damages Bill
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Associated Press
April 10, 2003; Page A13
Section: A Word Count: 334
A Senate committee yesterday
abruptly dropped plans to move
legislation overhauling a program to
compensate children injured by
vaccines, thus raising questions about
whether a bipartisan deal was
unraveling. The legislation would
nullify hundreds of lawsuits claiming
injury and send them to a fund
established to handle the claims.
Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman
of the Health, Education, Labor, and
Pensions Committee, said action was
postponed because events in Iraq
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