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PD Priority Funding Secured! Additional NIH and FDA Funding Provided for 2008!Take Action! Please Thank Your Members of Congress! Your voices were heard! Thanks to the efforts of the Parkinson's disease community, the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 emergency supplemental appropriations bill, passed by both the House and the Senate, contains funding for two of PAN's top priorities this year-funding for biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and drug review at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Thursday, June 26, with a vote of 92-6, the Senate adopted the House's version of the emergency supplemental appropriations bill, which includes $150 million for NIH and $150 million for FDA for this year. The bill will now be sent to President Bush, who is expected to sign it into law next week. Please continue being a leader in the fight for NIH and FDA! Click "Take Action" and send an e-mail thanking your Members of Congress for including this important funding in the emergency supplemental bill and ask them to continue supporting strong funding for the NIH and FDA in the FY 2009 appropriations process! Rayilyn Brown Director AZNPF Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn