 Legislative
Action Alert
Help Support Funding for Biomedical Research
Contact Your Member of Congress TODAY!
On Wednesday, July 14th the House Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations Subcommittee is scheduled to mark-up its FY11 spending bill. This is the annual bill that funds biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health. Now is the time to contact your representative and encourage him/her to support a robust increase in funding for the NIH. Please dial the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121 and they will direct you to your legislator (even if you do not know who your representative is).
Tips for communicating with congressional offices:
- Identify yourself as a constituent and ask to speak with the legislator’s Health Care Legislative Assistant.
- Tell the aide that you are a member of the Scleroderma Foundation and ask the legislator to support a funding level of $35 billion for the NIH in the FY11 Labor-HHS appropriations bill.
- Briefly tell your story about living with scleroderma and explain that hope for an improved quality of life for scleroderma patients lies in biomedical research at the NIH.
- Give the aide your contact information and ask to be informed about the actions of the legislator on this key issue.
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