Write Your Senators and Representatives Now!

[Guest guest]

I was going to wait to announce this awhile with CMT Awareness Month 2011, but

since Congress is about to axe Federal funding for medical research, now's the

time.

Please go to our Files section. Click on Awareness 2011. Open that File. Go to

the " Letter for Senators... " open that and use it to send to your Congressional

Representatives about CMT and the need not only for Awareness but the need for

funding.

You may want to include a copy of our 2011 Poster as well as something

from your own story.

Your representatives are supposed to work for YOU! Make sure your " employees "

hear you and do their jobs! Feel free to change any wording, this is just one

example.

You can find links to who your reps are there and their emails and snailmails.

Don't let CMT funding get axed!

Gretchen

[Guest guest]

Hi Gretchen,

Do you have details on what is being considered by Congress?  Any links to

articles/information about the funding that's in jeopardy?  I'd like to

reference the proposed action we would like blocked.  I apologize if I missed

this elsewhere.

in So Calif

(40's, CMT1a)

From: gfijig <gfijig@...>

Subject: Write Your Senators and Representatives Now!

Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 11:03 AM

 

I was going to wait to announce this awhile with CMT Awareness Month 2011, but

since Congress is about to axe Federal funding for medical research, now's the

time.

Please go to our Files section. Click on Awareness 2011. Open that File. Go to

the " Letter for Senators... " open that and use it to send to your Congressional

Representatives about CMT and the need not only for Awareness but the need for

funding.

You may want to include a copy of our 2011 Poster as well as something

from your own story.

Your representatives are supposed to work for YOU! Make sure your " employees "

hear you and do their jobs! Feel free to change any wording, this is just one

example.

You can find links to who your reps are there and their emails and snailmails.

Don't let CMT funding get axed!

Gretchen

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Some links to peruse, but 2 toppers are not only cuts to medical research, but

to Social Security and Medicare as well. (This is a bi-partisan issue, however,

please remember that we do not discuss individual " opinions " on ) That

letter I drafted was primarily to make policymakers more 'aware' of CMT. It just

so happens that medical research funding is on the chopping block, not only for

us, but others as well. Tune into C Span too.

Gretchen

http://www.unitedformedicalresearch.com/

http://www.aaas.org/spp/cstc/pne/pubs/fundscience/papers/meyers.htm

http://www.congress.org/news

http://www.c-span.org/

http://www.livescience.com/10251-health-research-funding-face-cuts-congress.html

http://scientopia.org/blogs/chemicalbilology/2011/02/16/nih-budget-cuts-affect-m\

edical-research-and-the-economy/

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gop-cuts-20110216,0,2687046\

..story

http://www.newt.org/newt-direct/budget-cuts-medical-research-will-cost-lives

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2014236094_spendinggop16.html

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