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Danny Lee Burton (born , his first term in Congress began in January of 1983 . The 5th District is in central Indiana and includes all of Tipton , Grant , Miami , Wabash , Huntington , Hamilton , and Hancock counties, and parts of Marion , Shelby , Howard and Johnson counties. Burton was born in Indianapolis , was educated at Indiana University and the Cincinnati Bible Seminary (now known as Cincinnati Christian University ) and served in the United States Army . Before his election to Congress, Burton was a member of the Indiana State Senate ( 1969 - 1970 and 1981 - 1982 ), and the Indiana House Of Representatives ( 1967 - 1968 and 1977 - 1980 ). A senior member of the House International Relations Committee , Burton currently serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and as Vice-Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific. Also a member of the House Government Reform Committee , Burton served as its Chairman from 1997 to 2002 . He is now a member of its Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats, and International Relations and Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources. Burton is also a member of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs. In 1997, Burton was accused of demanding a $5,000 contribution from a government and later threatened to make sure "none of his friends or colleagues" would meet with the lobbyist or his associates. In 1998 , Burton admitted to fathering a child outside of his marriage. {Link without Title} That same year, his investigation of Campaign Fundraising irregularities during the 1996 Presidential Campaign ground to a halt when it was revealed that his staff had doctored transcripts of prison phone calls made by former Clinton Administration official Webster Hubbell. {Link without Title} AUTISM EPIDEMIC Burton has been an outspoken critic of the failure of government agencies to find answers to the question of what is causing the evident Autism epidemic. Burton has a personal stake in the growing Controversies In Autism ; he has said his grandson became autistic a few days after receiving nine Innoculation s. "My only grandson became autistic right before my eyes – shortly after receiving his federally recommended and state-mandated vaccines." In an October 25 , 2000 , letter to the Department Of Health And Human Services , acting in his role as Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform, Burton asked the agency's director to get the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) to recall all vaccines containing the Neurotoxin Thimerosal . "We all know and accept that Mercury is a neurotoxin, and yet the FDA has failed to recall the 50 vaccines that contain Thimerosal," Burton wrote, adding "Every day that mercury-containing vaccines remain on the market is another day HHS is putting 8,000 children at risk." Burton's committee later discovered regulatory agencies have never required drug companies to conduct studies on the use of the widely used neurotoxin, which is still used today in many flu shots. EXTERNAL LINKS
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