Here are the final numbers for the appropriations bill.

For the CDC programs, the conference report listed increases in some cases and
total amounts in others. Therefore, some programs not "+$XXX" while others have
final funding levels.
All programs will also face a .8% cut contained in the omnibus.

NIH: $28,600,048

NCI: $4,865,525,000 (House markup: $4.870b; Senate markup: $4.895b)

NCMHD: $197,780,000

HRSA Nursing Programs: $151,889,000

CDC Programs:

Breast & Cervical: +9m

Registries: +2.476m

Colorectal: +1m

Comp Cancer: +4.855m

Ovarian, Prostate & Skin: +$100,000 each

Survivorship: $900,000 "as outlined in the Senate report"

Ferraro Blood Cancer: $4.625m

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If you want the colorectal number to ever be higher than there needs to be a
bunch of us showing up on Capitol Hill. There are two lobbying efforts that
CCNetwork gets heavily involved with - both provide training time and question
time first and then there are visits to your state rep arranged for you.
Usually it won't be with your representative but rather with his/her Health
Aide.

The dates for those two opportunities to be heard and to make colon cancer
funding higher are:

Digestive Disease National Coalition - March 7 & 8, 2005 Washington DC
http://www.ddnc.org/policy.asp
Day one is a training day. The second day are the visits to your Senator and
Representative's offices.
Patient Congress V1 Usually in June. Date not set yet.

If you are coming please let me know so that I can make sure that our issues get
heard extremely well. If you register on the DDNC site be sure to let me know.

I have this dream that 100 colon cancer advocates would join together in March
to get our needs heard.

Priscilla A. Savary
Executive Director
Colorectal Cancer Network
PO Box 182, Kensington MD 20895
301-879-1500
psavary@...
www.colon-cancer.net
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