It looks like the bottleneck in the Senate was broken and the funding for the Combating Autism Act will flow.
WASHINGTON — The Senate sent President Barack Obama a bill Monday night to extend federal autism programs after Sen. Bob Menendez reached an agreement with a Republican senator who had been blocking the measure.
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Critical provisions of The Combating Autism Act expire September 30. The current bill is a continuation of the Combating Autism Act that President George W. Bush signed into law in 2006 and was passed unanimously last week by the GOP controlled US House of Representative. Think about that. There was not one person in the House who stood in opposition to the bill! None.
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This quote goes to the heart of what was most insulting about Sharron Angle’s comment on “autism.”
Russ Steele, a parent whose 5-year-old son suffers from autism, said Angle “owes an apology” to parents and their children with autism. “When she mocked the very existence of autism, she crossed the line,” Steele said. “Sharron Angle owes (my son) Brandon and every other autistic child in Nevada an apology, not only for trying to undermine their insurance coverage but for mocking the very existence of autism.” (source)
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U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius comments on Sharron Angle’s “autism” comments.
“It is my understanding that Sharron Angle believes that there is a hoax, under the guise of autism, where you would include requests for treatments that may not even be required,” Sebelius said. “It is not only insulting to the parents and children but clearly is a real blow to kids who have shown considerable progress …with ongoing treatments.” (source)
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Autism and Politics lead to some strange bedfellows if I am about to applaud Harry Reid’s statement about Sharron Angle’s “autism” comments.
In a long press release, Reid’s campaign attempted to link Angle’s remarks on autism with other controversial statements she has made in the past, including a 2009 interview in which Angle agreed with a radio host who said some members of Congress might be “domestic enemies.”
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Dear Sharron Angle,
Your recent comments on health insurance for autism and the “air quotes” you used when with the term autism are seen as an offense to many parents and caregivers of kids with autism. When you talk about insurance companies should not being paying for therapies like ABA, Applied Behavior Analysis, because people like you shouldn’t have to pay for someone else’s problem; it shows me that you are pretty uninformed on both autism and insurance.
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Is Sharron Angle making a run for the Most Ignorant on Autism heavy weight title? - Autism in air quotes? Sharron Angle’s snub to Special Needs children
Some in Nashville are interpreting the air quotes around the word “Autism” as being a commentary on the realities of Autism. Part of that reality is that some people still assert that a child with Autism (or various other “invisible” disabilities) is really just a child who only needs “a good kick in the butt.” Sharron Angle appears to be one of those people. (Gaynell Payne - Nashville Special Needs Kids Examiner)
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Already one of my least favorite pretend conservatives, Mike Huckabee is a real piece of work. The 1 in 91 kids with autism getting health insurance is apparently along the same lines as taking out property insurance after your house burns or car insurance after you wreck your car.
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