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FUN Action Item: FW: A $1 Billion Increase in NIH funding

Posted October 21st, 2011 by juramirez
--_000_BA66A6ADB7F8E34AA0D9FD97218535AF053BA7MBX10Adavidsonedu_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Please consider contacting your Congressional Representatives. See below f= or important information. Forwarded to you by the FUN Public Policy and Go= vernmental Affairs Committee. Thanks for you consideration, Julio Ramirez Chair, Public Policy and Governmental Affairs Committee A $1 Billion Increase in NIH funding Take Action! The House and the Senate have begun to debate conflicting spending bills, w= hich contain cuts and some increases to health research programs. In the Ho= use, Reps. Markey (D-MA) and Bilbray (R-CA) have drafted a bipartisan lette= r to the House Appropriations Committee asking that they support a $1 billi= on increase for the National Institutes of Health. Send a message to your representatives TODAY and urge them to sign onto the= Markey-Bilbray letter. Renewed investment in health research is needed to = foster economic growth and to bring new treatments to patients. --_000_BA66A6ADB7F8E34AA0D9FD97218535AF053BA7MBX10Adavidsonedu_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Legislative Alert -- A $1 Billion Increase in NI= H funding

Please co= nsider contacting your Congressional Representatives.  See below for i= mportant information.  Forwarded to you by the FUN Public Policy and G= overnmental Affairs Committee.

 

Thanks for you c= onsideration,

 

Julio Ramirez

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Chair, Public Policy and Governmental Affairs Com= mittee

 

 

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A= $1 Billion Increase in NIH funding

Take Action!=

 

The House and the Senate have begun to debate co= nflicting spending bills, which contain cuts and some increases to health r= esearch programs. In the House, Reps. Markey (D-MA) and Bilbray (R-CA) have= drafted a bipartisan letter to the House Appropriations Committee asking t= hat they support a $1 billion increase for the National Institutes of Healt= h.

Send a message to your representatives TODAY and urge t= hem to sign onto the Markey-Bilbray letter. Renewed investment in health re= search is needed to foster economic growth and to bring new treatments to p= atients.

 

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