The cosponsors and text of House Concurrent Resolution 17 are shown below. Two new cosponsors as of 5/15/01 are: Rep Strickland, Ted - 5/15/2001 Rep Snyder, Vic - 5/15/2001 If your Rep. is not a co-sponsor, please call, write or visit them and ask them to contact Rep. Maloney to co-sponsor . Thanks to all who have done so -- especially list member Pam Shapely who obtained the support of REP. Snyder Thanks, Linda Herman H.CON.RES.17 Sponsor: Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. (introduced 1/30/2001) Latest Major Action: 2/14/2001 Referred to House subcommittee Title: Expressing the sense of the Congress supporting Federal funding of pluripotent stem cell research. COSPONSORS(57), BY DATE Rep Morella, Constance A. - 1/30/2001 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 2/6/2001 Rep Gilman, Benjamin A. - 2/8/2001 Rep Udall, Mark - 2/8/2001 Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 2/8/2001 Rep Thurman, Karen L. - 2/13/2001 Rep Berkley, Shelley - 2/13/2001 Rep Evans, Lane - 2/27/2001 Rep Price, David E. - 2/27/2001 Rep Frank, Barney - 2/27/2001 Rep Hooley, Darlene - 2/27/2001 Rep Hilliard, Earl F. - 2/27/2001 Rep Dooley, Calvin M. - 2/27/2001 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 2/27/2001 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 2/27/2001 Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 2/27/2001 Rep Miller, George - 2/27/2001 Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 2/27/2001 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 3/7/2001 Rep McGovern, James P. - 3/7/2001 Rep Rivers, Lynn N. - 3/7/2001 Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 3/7/2001 Rep Pelosi, Nancy - 3/7/2001 Rep Matsui, Robert T. - 3/7/2001 Rep McCarthy, Karen - 3/7/2001 Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 3/7/2001 Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 3/7/2001 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 3/7/2001 Rep McDermott, Jim - 3/7/2001 Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 3/7/2001 Rep Wexler, Robert - 3/7/2001 Rep Sherman, Brad - 3/7/2001 Rep Brady, Robert - 3/7/2001 Rep Harman, Jane - 3/7/2001 Rep Pascrell, Bill, Jr. - 3/13/2001 Rep Kirk, Mark Steven - 3/13/2001 Rep Pryce, Deborah - 3/13/2001 Rep Lantos, Tom - 3/13/2001 Rep Smith, Adam - 3/13/2001 Rep Millender-McDonald, Juanita - 3/13/2001 Rep Deutsch, Peter - 3/13/2001 Rep Berman, Howard L. - 3/13/2001 Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 3/13/2001 Rep Roybal-Allard, Lucille - 3/27/2001 Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 3/27/2001 Rep Tierney, John F. - 4/3/2001 Rep Thompson, Mike - 4/3/2001 Rep DeLauro, Rosa L. - 4/3/2001 Rep Kolbe, Jim - 4/3/2001 Rep Bentsen, Ken - 4/3/2001 Rep Johnson, Nancy L. - 4/3/2001 Rep Sandlin, Max - 4/26/2001 Rep Carson, Julia - 4/26/2001 Rep Lee, Barbara - 4/26/2001 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 4/26/2001 Rep Strickland, Ted - 5/15/2001 Rep Snyder, Vic - 5/15/2001 H. CON. RES. 17 Expressing the sense of the Congress supporting Federal funding of pluripotent stem cell research. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 30, 2001 Mrs. MALONEY of New York (for herself and Mrs. MORELLA) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce CONCURRENT RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the Congress supporting Federal funding of pluripotent stem cell research. Whereas Federal funds are crucial for researchers to proceed with stem cell research and technologies; Whereas pluripotent stem cell research does not undermine the current ban on Federal funding of human embryo research because pluripotent stem cells are not embryos and cannot become embryos; Whereas pluripotent stem cells are presursors of specialized cells which are destroyed or damaged in many incurable diseases and disabilities; Whereas the ability to use pluripotent stem cells to generate specialized cells, such as the dopamine-producing cells that are degenerated in Parkinson's disease or the insulin-producing cells that are impaired in diabetes, allows doctors to learn to generate the specialized cells that are destroyed or damaged in other diseases and disabilities; Whereas pluripotent stem cell research could lead to vastly improved treatments or cures for Alzheimer's disease, anemia, AIDS, arthritis, blindness, brain injury, birth defects, cancer, deafness, diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, liver disease, lung disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Parkinson's disease, severe burns, sickle cell anemia, spinal cord injury, and stroke, and could also lead to improved success of organ transplantation; and Whereas Federal funding through the National Institutes of Health ensures that sensitive research will be conducted in accordance with the highest scientific and ethical standards: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That the Congress supports Federal funding of pluripotent stem cell research. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn