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Bob Martone and other Udall supporters, I have been giving some thought to further steps we can take to both get a better handle on the NIH reauthorization process and to hopefully get things moving. I imagine that each committee member may have a staff member assigned to either the Senate or House committee, and that it is these folks who are hammering out the details. I would suggest that if a committee member is from is from your state that you or your surrogate make a call to that staff person asap, and ask questions on what's going on and report back to list. That switchboard # again 1-800-962-3524. Below is a listing of known committee members. CHECK FIRST AND SEE IF YOUR STATE IS AMONG THEM. IF YES, CHECK BELOW FOR NAME OF CONGRESSPERSON. (SENATE STATES: Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington) (HOUSE STATES: Arkansas, California (2), Connecticut, Florida (3), Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas (3), Wisconsin) SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES (1) Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Chair - R - Kansas; (2) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy - D - Massachusetts; (3) Sen. Judd Gregg - R - New Hampshire; (4) Sen. John Ashcroft - R - Missouri; (5) Sen. Spencer Abraham - R - Michigan; (6) Jim Jeffords - R -Vermont; (7) Sen. Dan Coats - R - Indiana; (8) Sen. Bill Frist - R - Tennessee; (9) Sen. Mike Dewine - R - Ohio; (10) Sen. Slade Gorton - R - Washington; (11) Sen. Claiborne Pell - D - Rhode Island; (12) Sen. Christopher J. Dodd - D - Connecticut; (13) Sen. Paul Simon - D - Illinois; (14) Sen. Tom Harkin - D - Iowa; (15) Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski - D - Maryland; (16) Sen. Paul D. Wellstone - D - Minnesota HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT (1) Rep. Michael Bilirakis, Chairman - R - Florida; (2) Rep. Blanche Lambert Lincoln - D - Arkansas; (3) Sen. Ron Wyden - D - Oregon; (4) Rep. Gary Franks - R - Connecticut; (5) Rep. Charles Norwood - R - Georgia; (6) Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, Vice-Chairman - R - Illinois; (7) Rep. Greg Ganske - R - Iowa; (8) Rep. Ed Whitfield - R - Kentucky; (9) Rep. Richard Burr - R - North Carolina; 10) Rep. Joe Barton - R - Texas (11) Fred Upton - R - New Jersey; (12) Cliffored B. Stearns - Florida; (13) Scott L. Klug - R - Wisconsin; (14) Jim Greenwood - R - Pennsylvania; (15) Brian P. Bilbray - R - California; (16) Tom Coburn - R - Oklahoma; (17) Harry A. Waxman - D - California; (18) Sherrod Brown - D - Ohio; (19) Peter Deutsch - D - Florida; (20) Bart Stupak - R - Michigan; (21) Ralph M. Hall - D - Texas; (22) John Bryant - D - Texas; (23) Edolphus Towns - D - NY; Gary E. Studds - D - Maine: (24) Bill Richardson - D - New Mexico The switchboard # in Washington that will connect you to the committee or to the Congresspersons's office is 1-800-962-3524. Hope this long post is helpful. Barbara Blake-Krebs [log in to unmask]