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ASBMB and biomedical research very much need ten minutes of your time today to help insure that funding at the National Institutes of Health increases this year.As expected, the President vetoed the 2008 Labor/HHS/Education bill this morning, November 13. The bill contains over a 3 percent increase for the NIH, thus allowing the agency's budget to keep up with inflation for the first time since 2003.It is very important that you contact your Member of Congress (and Senators) and urge him or her to vote to override the President's veto. It is particularly important that you do so if you are represented by one of the following Republican House members:
- Dent, Charles (PA)
- English, Philip (PA)
- Murphy, Tim (PA)
- Peterson, John (PA)
- Platts, Todd (PA)
These individuals all voted in favor of the L/HHS funding bill earlier this year, and thus might be prevailed upon to vote to override the President's veto. Thus, please take a few minutes to attend to this important matter.Your message is simple (but use your own words):
Please vote to override the President's veto of the L/HHS bill. It contains a 3 percent increase for the National Institutes of Health, which is the first increase since 2003 that matches inflation. The agency desperately needs these additional funds so biomedical research can continue to progress toward finding cures for disease.
All Members of Congress can be reached through the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121.
You can send an e-mail to any Member of Congress through the House website at www.house.gov.
At the top left of the House homepage is a link that says "Write your Representative." Click on this and you will go to a dialog page. Simply fill in the boxes at this point.
You can also contact your Senator in much the same way, through the Senate website at www.senate.gov.
We appreciate your willingness to do this on such short notice. If you have already received a note about this matter, we apologize for the redundancy.
Peter Farnham, CAE
Public Affairs Officer
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
[crossposted at here.]
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