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At 01:02 AM 10/9/96 +0000, you wrote: >Bernado: >I have written to Senator D'Amato on behalf of Udall Bill many times >since PAN was first introduced to a group of us by Joan Samuelson > at a Symposium at Col.-Pres. Med .Cent. in October 1994. >My work plan was to FAX the members of Congress and then >send a copy of the FAX by U.S.Mail. Ninety percent of the time >I received at least a reply. My own representative Eliot Engel was >among the first to cosponsor (July 1995, I believe.). >After two years (Sept. 1996) I finally received an answer from >Senator D'Amato. He did not exactly commit himself, but did promise to >consider the Udall Bill..I believe it was a form letter, the same as received >by >other correspondents from his constituency. > >I am not an ACTIVIST per se, but was committed to having increased >funding for PD research via the Udall Bill. > >BUT, I wonder what gain will be made via MUCKRAKING in the press now ? >[log in to unmask] (Mary Manfredi) ========= dear Mary, Sen. Al needs a little push, we know his father, and have met him several times, and our paper covers an area of very loyal supporters he listens to.. rgds