Hi Barbara- Thank you for the offer to help contact Karen McCarthy (D-5-MO). We don't have many grassroots lobbiers from MO so your help is especially important. Her number is 800-962-3524. MO residents should contact her and educate her about the need for the Udall bill HR.1260,S.535, especially in view of the lastest exact gene location discovery and the FDA approval of the new PD drug, pramipaxol. These are just 2 examples of what increased funding can do and how close research is to a major breakthrough.