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A busy day on Capitol Hill saw each network focus on a different set of hearings. NBC's Pete Williams chose a Senate panel on Alzheimer's Disease at which Sandra Day O'Connor, the former Supreme Court Justice and wife of a dementia patient, lobbied for research funding. CBS' Chip Reid chose a House committee looking into pharmaceutical immunity from lawsuits once medicines have been approved by the Food & Drug Administration. Actor Dennis Quaid, whose newborn twins had nearly died after a dispensing error, followed up on his protests on CBS' 60 Minutes with testimony that the protection should be removed. On ABC, Lisa Stark (embargoed link) looked into hearings convened by Sen Christopher Dodd (D-CT) into helping school cafeterias protect children with allergies to foods such as nuts and dairy. It turns out that Dodd's own six-year-old daughter is severely allergic.
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