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Hi Everyone,
WE are still seeking support on this initiative. We need to make sure that members of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee get the word loud and clear that we want money appropriated to the tune of 30 million in the Defense Appropriations bill for Congressional Directed Medical Research program for gulf war illness.
We can not get the answers of treatments that will help us unless we have money to do the research. Can you each take a few minutes to call the members of this subcommittee to let them know that we expect to get this in the bill as they are putting it together before it leaves committee to go to floor. WE do not want to have to fight and have members of congress try to do this as an amendment when the bill does come out to the floor of the House in June.
We got left with no funds in 07 and that has to not be allowed to happen again.
This is a critical time sensitive issue more so than the normal working for cosponsors to be added to a bill. This is the guts of it all -you have to have money to find answers for what we can do to take better care of the gulf war veterans by supporting research to find the biomarkers, diagnostic tests that are the best, and treatments that will help us.
WE will tackle the senate side of the capitol on this same issue shortly. All the activity on this should be done as far as what civilians, veterans, supporters by I would estimate May.
WE just need the voices of support re phone calls and faxes to members of the House Defense Appropriation Subcommittee as soon as possible.
Please help us on this action!
All citizens, veterans, veteran family members and friends, employers and employees can help! Let's make the effort to find research answers for diagnosis and treatment for gulf war veterans both Operation Desert Storm (90-91) and our current Operation Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan Enduring Freedom! It is simple show support by signing petition just sign on the petition and then exit the site( http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GulfWarillness/index.html) no contribution is necessary!
We are using this as just a visual show of support. The Representatives we are contacting listed below are being made aware of the response to the petition in our letters and calls to them. We are also notifying media sources of the responses to the petition when we are approaching them to follow this issue. So we are using it as a visual demonstration of support!
Yes we have other supporters helping but we need more help with phone calls!
This is not just a one person effort but a combination with service organizations, you, and civilians.
Then help by using a few minutes to make calls to the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Members in DC! Let them know America wants this done! More Specifics
follow. Thank You for your help and time
Sincerely,
Denise Nichols
Gulf War Veteran Nurse
Specific Directions
Sign the petition http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/GulfWarillness/index.html
limit comments to appropriations (defense subcommittee) for Congressional Direct Medical Research on gulf war illness and support for 30 million in research funds for that in FY08.
The Defense Subcommittee on Defense appropriations (both House and Senate)
have just started this process for FY08.
When making the calls to each office ask for the staffer in charge of Defense Appropriations!
TALKING POINTS
-The Congressional Direct Medical Research on Gulf War Illness within the Defense Appropriations got FY06 5 million FY 07 ZERO
We want this in FY 08 at a level of 30 million
- 175,000 Gulf War veterans still suffer from chronic multisymptom illness related to the 1991 war, according to the latest Department of Veterans Affairs study
- There are no effective treatments.
- The VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans Illnesses has found that evidence supports a probable link between exposure to neurotoxins and the
development of these illnesses.
- Treatments and diagnostic markers identified through the GWVRP would also serve to protect the health of current and future military personnel and civilians at risk of similar health effects.
---30% of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom are also returning
with ill defined conditions/syndrome Source VA document
- A $5 million pilot research program open to all researchers and conducted by DoD attracted 80 proposals to identify treatments and diagnostic tests in 2006, compared to two treatments studied in the previous fifteen years.
- While $5 million will support only a fraction of these studies, this response demonstrates the interest of the scientific community in improving the health of ill Gulf War veterans.
Action requested:
- As Congress appropriates needed billions for the care of those returning from the current war, we urgently ask that it fund this treatment research program for ill Gulf War veterans at the $30 million level traditionally funded by DoD for Gulf War illness research before it was eliminated from the budget in recent years.
- All major veterans organizations support $30 million funding for the Gulf War Veterans Illnesses Research Program of the DoD Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
Make the phone calls:
REMEMBER ASK FOR STAFFER DEALING WITH DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
Concentrate on HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERS FOR DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS
this week here is the contacts for those members:
House Committee Appropriations Defense Subcommittee
John P. Murtha (PA), Chair
202-225-5916
202-226-1176(fax)
David Morrison, Subcommittee Clerk
Room H-149 The Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-2847
Democrats
David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chair (202) 225-3365
Republicans
Jerry Lewis, California, Ranking Member (202) 225-5861
Fax: (202) 225-6498
MAJORITY
Chair: John P. Murtha (PA
202-225-5916
202-226-1176(fax)
Norman D. Dicks (WA)
(202) 225-5916 [voice]
(202) 226-1176 [fax]
Peter J. Visclosky (IN)
phone: (202) 225-2461
fax: (202) 225-2493
James P. Moran (VA)
Phone: (202) 225-4376
Fax: (202) 225-0017
Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Tel: (202) 225-4146
Fax: (202) 225-7711
Robert E. Bud Cramer, Jr. (AL)
202-2254801
202-225-4392 Fax
Allen Boyd (FL)
(202) 225-5235
(202) 225-5615 Fax
Steven R. Rothman (NJ)
202-225-5061
202-225-5851 fax
Sanford Bishop (GA)
Phone- (202) 225-3631 Fax- (202) 225-2203
Dave Obey (WI), Ex Officio
202-225-3365
MINORITY Republicans
Ranking Member:
C.W. Bill Young (FL)
202-225-5961
David L. Hobson (OH)
202-225-4324
fax 202-225-1984
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen (NJ)
202- 225-5034
Todd Tiahrt (KS)
202.225.6216
fax: 202.225.3489
Roger F. Wicker (MS)
202-225-4306
202-225-3549 fax
Jack Kingston (GA)
Phone: (202) 225-5831
Fax: (202) 226-2269
Email: Jack.Kingston@...
Jerry Lewis (CA), Ex Officio
(202) 225-5861 Fax: (202) 225-6498
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