The "Combating Autism Act" finally passed

[lokheed]

Last night the US Senate again passed unanimously the Combating Autism Act. The version passed last night is a compromise version, slightly different from the one also unanimously passed several months ago in the Senate. After months of stalling and preventing the bill from coming to a vote in the House, Rep. Joe Barton (R) finally agreed on a compromise version that actually authorizes slightly more spending but is less specific on when and where the money should be spent. The truth is that in one more month Barton would not have chaired the relevant committee and could no longer have prevented it at all, but a delay to the next session would have meant starting from scratch. I am obviously pleased that this legislation has finally passed, as are groups like Autism Speaks, Cure Autism Now, and the Autism Society of America.

Newsweek has the full story here.

Comments

[damashita.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Although there was a... difference of diagnosis (mental retardation and the like), you still don't see 1 in 166 adults in general w/ that severity of disability in the adult population now.