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Paul Smedberg of APDA was in contact with McCain's office and informed me(Pittsburgh NPF Chapter President) that the following Senators had contacted Senator McCain office and have agreed to sign on as original cosponsors. THERE ARE 19. Many of these were ones that took significant convincing last year. Conversely some of the earlier ones from last year like my Pennsylvania Senators Santoum and Specter are not on yet. Dodd R CT Original McCain R AZ Original Campbell R CO Original Mack R FL Original Inouye D HI Original Grassley R IA Original Harkin D IA Original Durbin D IL Original Wellstone D MN Original Bond R MO Original Cochran R MS Original Burns R MT Original Torricelli D NJ Original Bingaman D NM Original Moynihan D NY Original Glenn D OH Original Hollings D SC Original Robb D VA Original Leahy D VT Original If we use our success last year as a spring board to increase the pressure this year WE WILL GET THIS AUTHORIZATION FOR $100 MILLION/YR IN PARKINSON'S RESEARCH PASSED. But we can't sit back and think we wrote our cards and letters, made our phone calls and visits. If you wrote one letter last year write two this year. If you got 50 friends and neighbors to call or write last year get 100 this year. If you visited him in person last year, do it gain this year and tell him all the things you could do last year and can't do this year because your Parkinson's has gotten worse. Plan on coming to DC this June to pound the halls of congress and demand that we fund the research that neuroscientists agree is on the near horizon Jim Cordy Pittsburgh [log in to unmask]