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Margaret, Your suggestion are right on. Were you sitting under the table last Thursday night when Pan and some of its advocates were wrestling with the question of what strategy we should pursue? Let me modify your suggestion slightly. > I think that 3 > pieces of legislation need out attention: H.R. 1462, S. 684 and S. 1897(NIH > Revitalization Bill) > (1) S.1897 must get to the floor for vote. Sens. Lott and Daschle are the > schedulors for bills that get selected. Contact them! ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! the unamious committee vote was a huge victory but we need the full Senate where we have 58 cosponsors to approve S.1897 > (2)HR 1462/ S 684 still need more co-sponsors. Our numbers are growing, > but we are not guaranteed passage unless we get at least 218 definites in > the House. Therefore, we must: WE WILL HAVE 218 PROBABLY BY THE END OF THE WEEK. BUT WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE COSPONSORS. > (a) continue to contact the non committed ones from OUR OWN STATE > (b) contact those who had signed up to cosponsor, refresh their memory, and > ask for their help in persuading their peers to cosponsor THIS IS A KEY STEP WE HAVE OVERLOOKED. Deborah and I visit several of the Udall bills original cosponsors who had never been contacted by anyone from PAN ever. They didn't have our literature and didn't know our game plan or obstacles. We should have as a national goal to VISIT EVERY CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS, WHETHER ACOSPONSORS OR NOT , IN THEIR HOME DISTRICT DURING AUGUST BREAK. tell them we cannot wait until 1997. For us with Parkinson's the clock is ticking. This is a degenerative disease. to > (3) continue pursuing the "Big 5": Kassebaum, Lott, Bilirakis, Bliley and > Gingrich > (4) target the members of the House Commerce Committee and the > Sub-committee on Health & Environment. HR 1462 has been sitting in their "To > Do" folder since 4/6/95. It's time for ACTION! ADD SENATOR SPECTER OF PENNSYLVANIA TO THE POSTCARD/WRITE TO LIST he is chairman of the H & H S subcommittee of the appropriations committee. A possible scenario, perhaps our best shot, > A reminder: we still have post cards (they are going fast!) and if anybody > needs lists of names, fax numbers, addresses, etc., please e-mail Barbara > Schirloff or me, and we'll fill your orders. > Regards, > Margaret Tuchman > [log in to unmask] >