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From: "Diane Wyshak" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 3:20 PM
To: "ray" <[log in to unmask]>; "Dr. Kong" <[log in to unmask]>; "don 
reed" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: [CAMR.friends] Congress Won't Act on Stem Cells...Unless We 
MakeThem

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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hughes, Lisa" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2010 4:27 PM
> Subject: [CAMR.friends] Congress Won't Act on Stem Cells...Unless We Make
> Them
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>
> Dear CAMR friends:
>
> Let me start by introducing myself.  As of January 2010, I am the acting
> President of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR.)
> What an honor it is to be in this role.
>
> Since August, you have probably been following judicial activity which has
> severely jeopardized momentum of embryonic stem cell research.  The court 
> if
> currently hearing a case and an appeal that will impact the future of the
> NIH guidelines funding grants in embryonic stem cell research. 
> Information
> regarding CAMR's action in the courts and all judicial documents are
> available on the CAMR website at
> www.camradvocacy.org<http://www.camradvocacy.org/>.
>
> While the courts are hearing this case, it is incumbent upon us to 
> encourage
> Congress to act THIS YEAR to ensure, through the legislative process, that
> Federal funding for embryonic stem cell research can continue.  We are
> encouraging our members and our friends to contact their elected officials
> in their home districts and states and urge them to act on this issue in 
> the
> lame duck session scheduled for mid-November.  Below is an action alert 
> that
> we recently sent to our membership.  We hope that you will share this
> information with your constituencies as well!
>
> Lisa Hughes
> President, CAMR
>
> *********************************************************************************************
>
>
> Please ask your memberships to reach out to their Congressional
> representatives in their local offices.  Most Congressional member 
> websites
> have contact information for those local offices – phone and fax numbers
> (see below for helpful links*).  Some of the district offices will 
> transfer
> calls about legislation directly to DC, and that’s ok!  What we need to do
> is get the phones in the local offices ringing off the hook about stem 
> cell
> research, even if the DC offices ultimately take the comments.
>
> We also need for people to go to town hall meetings and other campaign
> events and make the case in person to House and Senate Members that 
> Congress
> take up stem cell research legislation during the “lame duck” session when
> Congress returns to DC after the elections.
>
> The message continues to be the same:
> Ask House Representatives to cosponsor and pass H.R. 4808 and Senators to
> cosponsor and pass S. 3766 this year.  The “Stem Cell Research Advancement
> Act” will provide protection for NIH to continue to support the critical
> life-saving research that provides hope to millions of patients and their
> families.
>
> The importance of this “local” activity cannot be overemphasized.  If
> Members of Congress don’t hear directly from constituents that this is
> important to them, the possibility of Congress acting to protect important
> stem cell research during the short remainder of the 111th Congress is
> virtually nil.
>
> As we move closer to Congress’ return to Washington, CAMR will be in touch
> with you at least weekly (and likely more often) with messages that we 
> need
> for you to share with your memberships.  We need to build up some serious
> momentum of constituent interest to have any chance of prevailing this 
> year.
>
> Thank you, as always, for your action and involvement.
>
> -jennifer
>
> Jennifer Poulakidas
> CAMR, VP of Legislative Affairs
>
> *Individuals can use the following websites to link to the web pages of
> their local U.S. House and Senate representatives.  Once on a Member’s
> website, there will usually be a “contact” link.  That link will have
> information about local offices, including phone and fax numbers.
> LET’S GET THOSE LOCAL PHONES RINGING!!
> http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
> http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
>
>
>
>
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