from Andrea Browning, Parkinson Action Network
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URGENT Help Needed to Save Parkinson’s Research Program
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Ask Your Member to Save the NETRP!
Take Action! Visit this page:
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URGENT! The House of Representatives and the Senate have completed
their versions of the Defense funding bill for next year. The House
allocated $26.5 million for Parkinsonâ ™s research at the Defense
Departmentâ ™s Neurotoxin Exposure Treatment Research Program
(NETRP). However, the Senate bill does not provide ANY funding for
critical NETRP Parkinsonâ ™s disease research.
We need your House and Senate Members to protect both the
programâ ™s funding and its original purpose by signing onto the
NETRP Dear Colleague being circulated by the Congressional Working
Group and Caucus on Parkinsonâ ™s Disease.
The next step in the funding process is for House and Senate Defense
subcommittee members to meet in Conference Committee to work out the
differences between the two versions of the bill. The Conference
Committee will decide if NETRP receives $26.5 million, as provided by
the House, or if the program will be eliminated based on the
Senate-passed bill. This Conference Committee is expected to meet as
early as September 5th, 2007.
In addition to funding concerns, we are worried about a misguided
attempt to change the focus of the NETRP from Parkinsonâ ™s to ALS
research. We must let our Congressional champions know that this
request would in effect be a raid on our long-standing and successful
Parkinsonâ ™s Department of Defense program. The Congressional
Caucus and Working Group on Parkinson's Disease have worked every year
for the last ten years to fund this innovative Parkinson's research
program, and, every year, the Parkinsonâ ™s community has supported
their efforts.
The Dear Colleague asks the Conference Committee to provide $26.5
million for the NETRP to continue funding innovative Parkinsonâ ™s
research. In addition, the Dear Colleague confirms the Parkinsonâ ™s
focus of the program, which, since Fiscal 1997, has been to study
neurodegenerative mechanisms and treatments with a special emphasis on
Parkinson's disease.
We need your Membersâ ™ support now more than ever. Signing onto the
Dear Colleague is the best way for your Member of Congress to show his
or her support for the NETRP and help protect this essential
Parkinsonâ ™s program.
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