http://www.ageofautism.com/2013/03/from-the-editor.html

From the Editor: Thank Frank

Did you notice Rep. Frank Pallone, D-NJ, speaking out at the Obamacare hearing? He's the one whose FDA Modernization Act found the FDA "asleep at the switch" on thimerosal in 1999. Thanks, Frank!

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078187?query=TOC&

Perspective
Thimerosal and Vaccines — A Cautionary Tale

Paul A. Offit, M.D.
N Engl J Med 2007; 357:1278-1279September 27, 2007DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp078187

In 1997, Frank Pallone, a U.S. congressman from New Jersey, attached a simple, 133-word amendment to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reauthorization bill. This amendment gave the FDA 2 years to “compile a list of drugs and foods that contain intentionally introduced mercury compounds and [to] provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the mercury compounds in the list.”1 The bill — the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 — was signed into law on November 21, 1997. Neither the press nor the public took notice...

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/10/magazine/10AUTISM.html

The Not-So-Crackpot Autism Theory
By ARTHUR ALLEN
Published: November 10, 2002

Neal Halsey's life was dedicated to promoting vaccination...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/anybody-worrying--unnecessarily--about-vaccinating-your-child/2013/08/30/991c65a8-038b-11e3-a07f-49ddc7417125_story_1.html

September 2, 2013

...Nevertheless, mercury should never be a reason not to vaccinate; it is easy to get your child fully vaccinated without exposing him or her to a mercury-containing preservative, says Neal Halsey, director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore. For example, parents can request versions of the influenza vaccine that have no mercury, Halsey says.