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Happy birthay, Keith I just want to express agreemen with your posting and to remind all the people in the land of thee great shrinking dollar of a recent post from a gent who gave us all the right people to write to and even had a great form letter made up. Who besdides myself intends to follow up on this? If we can go on tv we can sure as hell write letters. Bill At 10:23 AM 12/6/98 EST, you wrote: >On Friday, I received a letter from Senator Bill Frist (Rep., TN) in response >to an e-mail I had sent him earlier. In the letter, Senator Frist states: >"Our nation's investment in biomedical research must remain one of our highest >priorities in the federal government, and I have been working with my Senate >colleagues to increase federal dollars for research at the National Institutes >for Health (NIH)." Senator Frist states further: "I serve as Chairman of the >Senate Labor and Human Resources Subcommittee on Public Health and Safety >which has jurisdiction over the research prohgrams of the NIH. It is in this >capacity that I hold hearings to examine the research priority setting process >at the NIH to ensure we are funding the best scientific proposals across the >country as we increase the NIH budget." > >Looks like Senator Frist is a very key player in the fetal tissue research >debate. I will contact my senator again to thank him for his support and to >ask him to please consider lifting the current ban - at least for >circumstances he can support in good conscience. I urge you, fellow list >members, to thank Senator Frist and to contact your own representatives. You >can't underestimate how influential this type of involvement can be. > >Keith Chancey 46/14 months,,,,yes, today's my birthday for you observant >cyber-siblings >Memphis, TN > >