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Regarding additional funding for NIH research. I hope someone who is better at math than I can check this out but, There are approximately 300 million people living in the US We are spending slightly over 4 billion dollars a month in Iraq w/o counting interest costs on that money or the lives that are being affected there. According to my math we are spending about $13,500 each month for each of the 300 million people in this country. If this is correct then that means we are spending about $162,000 per American per year for the Iraq adventure alone. I don't mean for this to be a political message but these numbers, if correct, really show where our priorities are.----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda J Herman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 7:29 AM Subject: Fw: Feinstein NIH Amendment to increase NIH funding > Forwarded from PAN. > Please contact your Senators > Linda > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: "LauraJane Cohen" <[log in to unmask]> > To: "Laura Jane Cohen" <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:53:58 -0400 > Subject: Feinstein NIH Amendment > Message-ID: <014801c34ba1$c5014b00$6801a8c0@d72b7f21> > > >From the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding: > > We understand that Senator Dianne Feinstein is preparing to offer an > amendment to the FY 2004 Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill when it > comes to the Senate floor later this week to add additional funding to > the > National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Senate Appropriations Committee > has proposed $27.982 billion for NIH, a $1 billion (3.7%) increase over > the > current year. > > Senator Feinstein's amendment would add an additional $1.3 billion to the > NIH budget in FY 2004, which would bring the total to $29.282 billion, an > 8.5% increase. > > Since this amendment is not offset with any cuts to other programs, it > will > require 60 votes to pass the Senate. This will obviously require strong > support of this amendment by both Republicans and Democrats. > > We urge all Ad Hoc Group member organizations to activate their > memberships > immediately to contact their Senators in support of the Feinstein > amendment. > The Senate may begin debate on the Labor-HHS bill as early as this > evening, > and a vote on this amendment may occur as early as Wednesday. > > Dave Moore > Executive Director > Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding > 202-828-0525 > [log in to unmask] > > > Laura Jane Cohen > Director of Outreach > Parkinson's Action Network > 1000 Vermont Ave., NW > Suite 900 > Washington, D.C. 20005 > ph: 202-842-4101 or 800-850-4726 > fax: 202-842-4105 > [log in to unmask] > www.parkinsonsaction.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn