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I recently attended the Parkinson's Advocacy Forum. A three word description woulld be exhausting, enlightening, inspiriational. Our immediate goal is t o pass the Udall Bill. Amoung other things this legislation would raise Parkinson's Disease funding from $26 million to $100 million per year. With breakthroughs looming on several fronts, this infusion of funds could dramatically aid this research. To do this we need to get half the Congressmen and Senators to co sponsor the bill. To assist in this effort we are trying to put together a database with information on each Congressman and Senator. To provide input to this data base we hope to identify an individual in each Congressional district to monitor and coordinate lobbying activities with respect to that individual Congressman. The same strategy is intended for Senators. A key ingredient of this network is E-Mail. Instead of attempting to organize a large pyramidal structure we plan to communicate to these selected individuals, either by postings to the Parkinsons list or direct E-Mail. If someone is interested but doesn't have E-Mail, accomadations can be made I have volunteered to attempt to recruit individuals in part of Pennsylvania. Listed bllow is are Pennsylvania's Congressman and whether they have agreed to co-sponsor. Congressman District Co-sponsor Assigned Foglietta, Thomas M. 1 Fattah, Chaka 2 Borski, Robert A. 3 Klink, Ron 4 Supportive Clinger, Jr., Wm F. 5 Holden, Tim 6 Weldon, Curt 7 Greenwood, Jim 8 Co-sponsor Shuster, Bud 9 McDade, Joseph 10 Kanjorski, Paul E. 11 Murtha, John P. 12 Suportive [log in to unmask] Fox, Jon D. 13 Coyne, William 14 Co-sponsor McHale, Paul 15 Walker, Robert S. 16 Gekas, George W. 17 Doyle, Mike 18 Goodling, William F. 19 Mascara, Frank 20 Suportive English, Philip 21 If you are interested please contact me. A manual detailing how to effectively communicate with Congress is available. We are particularly interested in finding individuals who have some relationship or association with any of these individuals.