Action to Cure Kidney Cancer

The Dear Colleague letter requesting the $15 million appropriation, which, if granted, would increase the federal research budget for kidney cancer research by half is scheduled to be voted on in July.

Please call, and have all your friends and family call your/their Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Senators' health aides and ask them to have their Senators approve the Dear Colleague letter that is asking for the $15 million appropriation.

The Senators on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee are:

Senator Daniel Inouye (Chairman) (HI)

Senator Robert C. Byrd (WV)

Senator Patrick Leahy (VT)

Senator Tom Harkin (IA)

Senator Byron Dorgan (ND)

Senator Richard Durbin (IL)

Senator Dianne Feinstein (CA)

Senator Barbara Mikulski (MD)

Senator Herb Kohl (WI)

Senator Patty Murray (WA)

Republican Subcommittee Members:

Senator Ted Stevens (Ranking Member) (AK)

Senator Thad Cochran (MS)

Senator Arlen Specter (PA)

Senator Pete Domenici (NM)

Senator Christopher Bond (MO)

Senator Mitch McConnell (KY)

Senator Richard Shelby (AL)

Senator Judd Gregg (NH)

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX)

For the Senate, go to: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm where you can find your Senator and the phone number and a webform if you want to send a message.

Dear Colleague Letter This is the final tally, 25 Senators, which is the most we've ever gotten! Thanks to all of you who helped in the campaign. Now we wait for the Defense Appropriations sub-committee to vote on the request.

Senators Signed On - as of the deadline April 9th

Charles Schumer (NY) Sponsor
Arlen Specter (PA) Sponsor
Barbara Boxer (CA)
Ken Salazar (CO)
Christopher Dodd (CT)
Joseph Lieberman (CT)
Daniel Akaka (HI)
Richard Durbin (IL)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Edward Kennedy (MA)
John Kerry (MA)
Deborah Stabenow (MI)
Amy Klobuchar (MN)
Norm Coleman (MN)
Robert Menendez (NJ)
Frank Lautenberg (NJ)
Hillary Clinton (NY)
Sherrod Brown (OH)
Ron Wyden (OR)
Robert Casey (PA)
Sheldon Whitehouse (RI)
Jack Reed (RI)
Bernard Sanders (VT)
Maria Cantwell (WA)

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