H.R. 179: Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act - Please support with a call or letter.

[pinto]

Summary

1/6/2009--Introduced.

Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act - Provides that nothing shall prohibit the use of federal funds to establish or carry out a program of distributing sterile syringes to reduce the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and viral hepatitis.

2009-2010 Community AIDS and Hepatitis Prevention Act

To permit the use of Federal funds for syringe exchange programs for purposes of reducing the transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including HIV and viral hepatitis.

Sponsor: Rep. José Serrano

Cosponsors

Rep. Doris Matsui
Rep. Bob Filner
Del. Donna Christensen
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Rep. Dennis Kucinich
Rep. Ronald Paul
Rep. Jerrold Nadler
Rep. Neil Abercrombie
Rep. Lynn Woolsey
Rep. Raul Grijalva
Rep. Barbara Lee
Rep. Tammy Baldwin
Rep. William Delahunt
Rep. Maxine Waters
Rep. Phil Hare
Rep. Carolyn Maloney
Rep. Maurice Hinchey
Rep. Janice Schakowsky
Rep. Charles Rangel
Del. Eleanor Norton
Rep. Sam Farr
Rep. Alcee Hastings
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Rep. Jesse Jackson
Rep. Michael Capuano
Rep. James Moran
Rep. Edolphus Towns
Rep. Howard Berman
Rep. James McDermott
Rep. Chaka Fattah
Rep. Henry Waxman

Status: Introduced Jan 6, 2009

Referred to Committee View Committee Assignments
Reported by Committee (pending)
Voted on in House (pending)
Voted on in Senate (pending)
Signed by President (pending)

This bill is in the first step in the legislative process. Introduced bills and resolutions first go to committees that deliberate, investigate, and revise them before they go to general debate. The majority of bills and resolutions never make it out of committee.

Last Action: Jan 6, 2009: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.

Related: See the Related Legislation page for other bills related to this one and a list of subject terms that have been applied to this bill. Sometimes the text of one bill or resolution is incorporated into another, and in those cases the original bill or resolution, as it would appear here, would seem to be abandoned.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-179

[bluedawg12]

1. Thanks for posting this, someone ought to tell Warren that clean syringes matter.

[JackBeck]

2. But wouldn't that educational effort require outreach?

I thought we weren't permitted to open those lines of communication with Warren. Since, you know, he's said some pretty shitty things.

Or should we just ignore him because he's previously made disgustingly homophobic comments, even though we could create a new opportunity to correct the misinformation that's preached to his followers, which in turn could put them at even lower risk of contracting HIV, HBV and HCV?

I'm honestly quite curious and have been for weeks since this whole Warren conversation began. This addresses rather intimately the type of work I do on a local and national basis.

Should I just disregard a chance to communicate not only with political opponents, but with community religious figures that have said things that I disagree with?

[Creideiki]

3. Tell you what

Start talking now.

When you're blue in the face and they're maintaining that we're subhuman sinners, then you can rethink the plan.

[JackBeck]

4. Thanks for your input.

But I'll pass. Once you've done outreach, regardless of what field you're in, being defeated isn't really something you ever think about when you wake up in the morning.

After five years of national outreach, I've never found my face changing colors, so whatever we do at my organization seems to work.

What is your plan for making change happen?

Maybe if we shared ideas here at DU about what works or doesn't, and had an honest discussion about these things instead of all the knee-jerk yelling and condemning, we might actually find a few things that could work or be implemented.

A pipe dream I know, but activism isn't about being on the defensive 24/7. It's about accepting that shit and then figuring out how to overcome it.

[JackBeck]

5. If you and I were to catalog the type of posts that get ignored over the last 6 months

I'm sure we'd find some similar results.

Especially when the view count is factored in.

Maybe if we could convince Congress to come up with snakier titles of legislation, and then get C-SPAN to market equality as a really dramatic reality show, we could get a few more viewers.

It would be nice to see posters that actually have something to say about ways to make change happen participating here, instead of those that just bitch and complain, yet do nothing in real life to make that change happen.