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A group of us are going to Washington DC next week to try and push our Cosponsors totals for the Udall Bill from the impressive early totals o f 40 and 125, House and Senate respectively, to the majority figures we ha= d last year. To support our presence it would be wonderful if all of you could take the time each day, particularly on Monday and Tuesday to call your Representative and ask they take the time to see us when we stop b= y there office. Some states have been receptive to setting up appointments even though we so not have someone from there district or state others have refused. Let me try and make this a little more personal. Many look upon this li= st as extended family. Joining us in D.C. are the following regular contributors to the list: Barbara Schirloff Margaret Tuchman Bob Martone Terri Whitling Ken Aidekman Dale Severance Margaret Monty Bruce Hollenbeck=20 Carol Walton=20 Susan and Stan Hamburger Rusty Glazer None of us enjoy making this trip. I remember my first PAN advocacy Forum. I described it as exhilarating, exciting, and exhausting. I now find these trips exhausting, exhausting, exhausting. Please help make th= is my last trip to D.C. for the Udall Bill.=20 Call your Representative. Here's the toll free number for he Capitol switchboard. 800-962-3524. Ask to be connecting to your Representative's office. If you don't know your Representative, just give the operator your Zip Code. I am asking you do this whether it's your first call or your one hundredth. Most of you will read this on Sunday when Congress is closed.= =20 That is an opportunity for you to call your friends and relatives, even those out of state (phone rates are cheap on Sunday). If you attend church on Sunday, ask those in your congregation to call. Some of you ca= n even making an announcement at your church. Let me give you that number again 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524 800-962-3524=20 our government Works on the squeaky wheel principal. It is my opinion that the only reason we do not now have a cure for Parkinson's is because we happened squeaked enough. =20 I've been told by some that they don't want to make a pest of themselves= .=20 My response is "is having Parkinson a pest for you ?". It would simply delight any one of us who are traveling to D.C. to walk into a Representatives office and hear them say "you folks are making a pest of yourselves". I can tell them how to get rid of that pest=97PASS THE UDAL= L BILL. Jim Cordy Pittsburgh [log in to unmask]