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November 16, 2004

Immediate action needed on S.983, Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act

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November 16, 2004

IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED:

Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act, S. 983

This important alert comes to us from our friends at the NH Breast Cancer Coalition. (See the text of the alert below.) Senator Judd Gregg is the Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and he needs to hear from his NH constituency!

Please contact Senator Gregg at any or all of the phone numbers below. We need for ALL his offices, in Washington and the District Offices, to hear from us! .

We even provide a short list of possible locations, to get your thought process flowing.

Concord:
603-225-7115

Manchester:
603-622-7979

Portsmouth:
603-431-2171

Berlin:
603-752-2604

Washington:
202-224-3324

Focus on calling Senator Gregg with this message:

We are outraged that Congress, by unanimous consent, would enact a bill with only 2 cosponsors to light the St. Louis Arch pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month but do nothing on S. 983/H.R. 1746, a bill having 61 Senate and 210 House Co-sponsors that would investigate the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer! As breast cancer advocates, we are asking you to act now on S.983/H.R. 1746 a bill that will actually do something to find the cause and cures for breast cancer unlike pink lights on the St. Louis Arch. Congressional leadership has blocked all action on this bill. We demand that the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act be enacted in the 108th Congress. Women's lives depend on it!

For more information about the NH Breast Cancer Coalition, contact:

Nancy Ryan, Chair, NHBCC and Field Coordinator, NBCC

Nancy A. Ryan
NH Breast Cancer Coalition
18 Belle Ln
Lee NH 03824-6438
Phone and Fax: 603-659-3482

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ALERT!! ALERT!! ALERT!! URGENT!! URGENT!! URGENT!!

S. 983, the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act.

WE NEED YOU TO MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD IMMEDIATELY AND LOUDLY ABOUT THE LEADERSHIP'S INACTION THIS BILL!

Advocates have been doing incredible work contacting Majority Leader Frist and HELP Committee Chairman Gregg urging them to move S. 983, the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act in the lame duck session that is happening this week. The National Breast Cancer Coalition learned the session will be a very short one lasting only a few days this week and there are no plans to take action on the bill.

This is a bill that would provide the critical support necessary to investigate the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer and it cannot get a hearing!

It is an absolute outrage that this bill which will study the potential links between breast cancer and the environment-with 61 Co-sponsors in the Senate and 210 Co-sponsors in the House-is ignored by the Congressional leadership, and yet, in only 15 days (from introduction to House and Senate passage and signed into law by the President)-Congress enacted a bill by unanimous consent with only two (2) Senate co-sponsors to light the St. Louis Arch pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month!!!

ACTION REQUESTED:

We must make our voices heard loud and clear that this is just not acceptable! We need you and your networks to initiate a campaign immediately and continuously for this entire week sending phone and fax messages to Majority Leader Frist and Chairman Gregg with the following message:

We are outraged that Congress, by unanimous consent, would enact a bill with only 2 cosponsors to light the St. Louis Arch pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month but do nothing on S. 983/H.R. 1746, a bill having 61 Senate and 210 House Co-sponsors that would investigate the relationship between environmental factors and breast cancer! As breast cancer advocates, we are asking you to act now on S.983/H.R. 1746 a bill that will actually do something to find the cause and cures for breast cancer unlike pink lights on the St. Louis Arch. Congressional leadership has blocked all action on this bill. We demand that the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act be enacted in the 108th Congress. Women's lives depend on it!

For more information, email Seacoast NOW at info@seacoastnow.org.

Last Updated November 16, 2004