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Media Regarding Federal Lyme Disease Legislation
 August 4, 2009 - Senate Committee Adopts Provision of Dodd's Lyme Disease LegislationWill Develope Ways to Identify and Treat Long-Term Effects of Lyme Disease
A key Senate panel approved legislation proposed by Senator Chris Dodd to help identify and treat Lyme disease. The Dodd measure was included in the annual funding bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. Click here for more ....
 July 26, 2009 - Lyme disease initiatives urged by Smith get House approval
Eights years in the making, legislation would foster national effort to fight Lyme Disease
Key components of a proposed federal Lyme disease education and prevention law authored by Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., were incorporated into a larger appropriations bill dealing with labor, education and public health that was approved by the House, Smith's office announced Friday. Click here for more ....
June 25, 2009 - Dodd Introduces Lyme Disease Legislation
Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT), a senior member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and Chairman of its Subcommittee on Children and Families, along with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced today the Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2009. Click here for more ...
 April 17, 2009 - Hall Calls on Federal Government to Increase Fight Against Lyme Disease, Backs Bill to Expand Funding for Treatment and Prevention
Wappingers Falls, NY – Joining with local Lyme Disease advocates and victims in the county home to a nearly one-quarter of New York State's diagnosed cases, U.S. Rep. John Hall (D-Dover) today announced he is pushing new federal measures to provide nearly $100 Million in expanded funding for Lyme Disease treatment and prevention over the next five years. Click here for more ...
Feb. 27, 2009 Smith Unveils Lyme Disease Bill
CDC Data: Cases on the rise, highest among kids ages 5-14
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressmen Chris Smith (R-NJ) today announced the introduction of a bill he wrote to combat Lyme disease, and thanked original co-sponsors Bart Stupak (D-MI) Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Tim Holden, (D-PA). Click here for more ...
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