Hi again,
PLEASE CALL SENATOR DIANNE FEINSTEIN TODAY, MONDAY and URGE HER TO ATTEND THE HEARING!!
(for Californians---see below for others)
Also, I have posted a script for calling her, and info on C-SPAN to view the hearings, which
follows the PAN msg.
The following was posted .. from PAN.
EXCERPTED
Please call the office of your Senator on the Labor-HHS Subcommittee (see list
below) today or
Monday and ask the health staffer to urge the Senator to make time in his/her
busy schedule
to attend the hearing. (full msg. below)
From: Kelly Abbett <[log in to unmask]> [ Save address ]
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Senate Hearing - Request from PAN
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 08:40:05 -0700
To those of you who are unable to attend the hearing
BUT have Senators on the Labor-HHS Subcommittee and
would like to participate somehow:
Please call the office of your Senator on the
Labor-HHS Subcommittee (see list below) today or
Monday and ask the health staffer to urge the Senator
to make time in his/her busy schedule to attend the
hearing. You can contact PAN at 800-850-4726 or
[log in to unmask] to inform them of your
efforts. Thank you!
Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121
Senate Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee:
-Sen Specter (R-PA), Chair
-Sen Cochran (R-MS)
-Sen Gorton (R-WA)
-Sen Gregg (R-NH)
-Sen Craig (R-ID)
-Sen Hutchison (R-TX)
-Sen Stevens (R-AK)
-Sen Kyl (R-AZ)
-Sen Harkin (D-IA), Ranking Member
-Sen Hollings (D-SC)
-Sen Inouye (D-HI)
-Sen Reid (D-NV)
-Sen Kohl (D-WI)
-Sen Murray (D-WA)
-Sen Feinstein (D-CA)
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Hi,
Please call now; the time is critical; the hearing is this TUESDAY
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D)
Phone:202-224-3841
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(This is a great site for info on Congress and where I get info on Gov.---See further info
from this site after script below;
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/commpage.cgi?committee=sapprop_labor)
Guideline Telephone Script for FY 2000
Appropriations (from PAN)
Hello. I am a constituent and a Parkinson's
disease advocate. May I
please speak with the staff person who handles
health care issues?
[Yes, voice mail is fine if the person is not
available].
(Revised para. 2)
My name is ____________ and I am calling to urge
Senator Feinstein to please attend Tuesdays
appropriations subcommittee hearing and to support much needed funding
increases for Parkinson's disease during
consideration of the fiscal
year 2000 Labor/ HHS Appropriations bill.
As you probably know, in 1997 Congress
overwhelmingly adopted the
Morris K. Udall Parkinson's Disease Research
Act, historic legislation
authorizing the National Institutes of Health to
devote up to $100
million per year for Parkinson's-focused
research. To date NIH has not
fully funded the Udall Act — despite promising
research and a
compelling national need.
I urge your boss to act this year to follow
through on the promise of
the Udall Act by supporting funding increases of
$50 million for
Parkinson's research at the National Institute
of Neurological
Disorders and Stroke and $25 million at the
National Institute of
Environment Health Science for FY 2000. To
provide the resources for
these much needed increases, I ask the Senator
to
support the effort to ensure that the NIH budget
is on track to double
over five years.
Please urge your boss to act this year on these
important increases by
writing a letter or talking to the Chair of the
Appropriations
Committee. Time is not neutral for people with
Parkinson's — the
disease is progressive, chronic and absolutely
relentless — and we
can't afford to wait any longer. Researchers
have described
Parkinson's as the "most curable neurological
disorder" — but finding
the cure in time for those currently suffering
requires the additional
funding authorized by the Udall Act.
Thank you. Can I count on hearing back from you
about the outcome of
the fiscal year 2000 Labor/HHS Appropriations
bill? [Give the
staff person your name, address, and phone
number so that s/he can
follow up with you.]
[If any questions arise that you do not feel
comfortable answering, ask
the staff person to call the Parkinson's Action
Network at
800-850-4726.]
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the website includes a link to access
the daily schedule, and for the "next" day--Tues. 28th is "not yet
scheduled"--but we'll keep checking! It covers both C-SPAN 1 (House) and
C-SPAN 2 (Senate).
>It's not clear to me which channel it will be on - I
>would suggest checking your local listings or the
>webpage at http://www.c-span.org
>
>--- Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Kelly---since this is a Senate hearing, won't it be
>> on C-SPAN 2 rather than
>> C-SPAN 1 ? That's important, as not all cable
>> channels carry both!
--
Charlotte Mancuso
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