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Deborah and I are heated for Washington D.C. ones again. When we originally scheduled this trip we thought it would be over with respect to be Udall Bill and that we would be tourists in Washington for a change. But it now looks like we're wading into the thick of things once again. I'm taking an extra change of clothes so that I will have something to where at the Unity March on Sunday September 29 in New York City. I plan to be their only if it's a victory march for passage of the Udall Bill, otherwise it's too long away from home for Deborah and I. We will make an exception if there is a victory to celebrate. I don't know what the chances of getting something passed are. But, I know that last year at this time people scoffed when I suggested that we bill the Unity March as a victory march for the Udall Bill. I not say the chances of passage in now are good, but there is a real chance. All of you who comprise the grass roots need to keep a steady stream of calls into the capital switchboard (800-962-3524). It's been on your back that we who have pounded the halls of Congress have been riding. One of the more obnoxious, arrogant Congressmen we met with, has recently agreed to cosponsor because it's election time and his race was tightening up. The support group in his home town lit up his switchboard and now he is a cosponsor. It was our bill's namesake, Mo Udall, who said "I might not have always seen the light, but I always felt the heat". We all have heard of these 11th hour Christmas oriniment amendments which get tacked onto other legislation in the wee hours of the morning and pass into law. Wouldn't it be quite a Christmas in September if such were to happen with our Parkinson's legislation. It only will happen if we keep the pressure on so that Parkinson's is on their mind almost as much as adjournment is. If you have any energy left for our cause the marchings orders for next week are dial, dial, dial ! as in Gingerhich, Lott, Specter, Hatfield, Bilirakis, Bliley, Kennedy, Coats, Kassebaum,Santourm, ect., ect. Hope to see many of you celebrating in New York on Sunday