---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 18:26:04, -0500 From: MR ROBERT A MARTONE <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: Fwd: Udall Bill Senate Passage confirmed!!!!!!!!!!. -- [ From: Bob Martone * EMC.Ver #2.5.1 ] -- Barbara Please forward this. Thanks > Date: Thursday, 26-Sep-96 04:34 PM > > From: Bob Martone \ PRODIGY: (VRGS59A) > > Subject: Udall Bill Senate Passage confirmed!!!!!!!!!!. > > Just heard from Terry Whitling and Joan Samuelson. It's true. Trent Lott was > presiding over the senate and called for unanimous consent for the NIH > Revitalization bill and it passed in less than 90 seconds. Debra Cordy was the > only PD activist who made it to the chamber in time to see the vote. The last > minute negotiations were between Senators Kassebaum and Coates on the use of > fetal tissue. > Senator Kessebaum is now acting as an advocate and has been discussing with > Congressman Bliley. My understanding of the situation is that if we don't get > HR 1462 passed in the next few days the bill will not become law because the > house has not yet approved it. That means we lose a year of funding and 50,000 > more Americans and countless others world wide will be afflicted with yet > another years delay in finding the cure. Please call Bliley, Gingrich , Armey, > Delay and Bilarakis. at 1-800-962-3524. > > [log in to unmask]