Dear Ivan-- please don't feel unappreciated-- I think it unlikely that written testimony at a Senate or House hearing is ever distributed to the media---the only reason we got the repeated sound bites and clips on other networks was that MJF was there! Your excellent testimony will be printed in the hearing record---available to all Senators--but not immediately. I think your suggestion to me on the phone last night that people copy from the list and send to their legislators is a great one---that's a way to make sure the health aides (at least) have a CHANCE (at least) to read it. I intend to do that, and hope others will too. Thanks for all the labor you put into it, and try to realize that you may have had unrealistic expectations for how public it would be. Take care---- Camilla Flintermann Oxford,OH http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm <[log in to unmask]> "In all beginnings, endings lie enfolded, implicit and invisible as roots." from: "Leaving the Garden"--CHF