LymeNet Flash: HR 3427, committee members contact NOW; holding up LYME bill!

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Posted by TNhayley (Member # 8249) on :

Help get HR 3427 out of committee. Your reps are home, great time to call, go SEE them, make noise!

Texans, your guys really need the heat, esp Barton!!!!

Georgia, Deal needs to hear from you as head of Health subcommittee!!!

For more detailed contact info, including local addys and numbers see post:
http://flash.lymenet.org/ubb/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=000442

Ross, Arkansas

Shadegg, Arizona

Bono, California
Capps, California
Eshoo, California
Radanovich, California
Solis, California
Waxman, California

DeGette, Colorado

Bilirakis, Florida
Vice Chairman
Davis, Florida
Stearns, Florida

Deal, Georgia
Norwood, Georgia

Otter, Idaho

Buyer, Indiana

Rush, Illinois
Schakowsky, Illinois
Shimkus, Illinois

Whitfield, Kentucky

Allen, Maine

Wynn, Maryland

Markey, Massachusetts

Dingell, Michigan
Ranking Member
Rogers, Michigan
Stupak, Michigan
Upton, Michigan

Pickering, Mississippi
Vice Chairman

Blunt, Missouri

Terry, Nebraska

Bass, New Hampshire

Ferguson, New Jersey
Pallone Jr., New Jersey

Wilson, New Mexico

Engel, New York
Fossella, New York
Towns, New York

Myrick, North Carolina

Brown, Ohio
Gillmor, Ohio
Strickland, Ohio

Sullivan, Oklahoma

Walden, Oregon

Doyle, Pennsylvania
Murphy, Pennsylvania
Pitts, Pennsylvania

Blackburn, Tennessee
Gordon, Tennessee

Barton, Texas
Chairman
Burgess, Texas
Hall, Texas
Gonzalez, Texas
Green, Texas

Boucher, Virginia

Inslee, Washington

Baldwin, Wisconsin

Cubin, Wyoming

Thanks!!!!!

Hayley

[ 19. October 2006, 08:50 PM: Message edited by: TNhayley ]

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

Hayley, outstanding job on listing the folks involved by state/name, and cheering people on to make contact with them these 2 wks. before election! [group hug]

Bettyg

Posted by TNhayley (Member # 8249) on :

Edit to try and clarify topic title.

This is the Lyme bill ... HR 3427.

Hope that helps!!!

Hayley

Posted by TNhayley (Member # 8249) on :

Here are the names of the current (as of 10/20/06)Health subcommittee:
Health subcommittee

Sorry, I don't have the time right now to compare w/ who is signed on, etc. However, as many have pointed out ... this is a lame duck congress now, so we really need constituents to turn the heat on their reps!!!

Joe Barton is a huge barrier! He not only needs heat ... he needs an outright fire storm!!!

You can find contact info, including LOCAL district addys and numbers here:

Energy and Commerce committee

I put the above post together so it would be easy for everyone to get contact info within the board, without having to do an outside search.

I visited every Reps home webpage to get this info.

At this point, it may just be a shot in the dark. But as we all collectively hold our breath waitng to hear from the LDA and news of the ILADS conference ... this is something we CAN do NOW.

Thanks!!!

Hayley

Nathan Deal, Georgia
Chairman

Ralph M. Hall, Texas

Michael Bilirakis, Florida

Fred Upton, Michigan

Paul E. Gillmor, Ohio

Charlie Norwood, Georgia

Barbara Cubin, Wyoming

John Shimkus, Illinois

John B. Shadegg, Arizona

Charles "Chip" Pickering, Mississippi

Steve Buyer, Indiana

Joseph R. Pitts, Pennsylvania

Mary Bono, California

Mike Ferguson, New Jersey

Mike Rogers, Michigan

Sue Myrick, North Carolina

Michael Burgess, Texas

Joe Barton, Texas
(Ex Officio)

Sherrod Brown, Ohio
Ranking Member

Henry A. Waxman, California

Edolphus Towns, New York

Frank Pallone Jr., New Jersey

Bart Gordon, Tennessee

Bobby L. Rush, Illinois

Anna G. Eshoo, California

Gene Green, Texas

Ted Strickland, Ohio

Diana DeGette, Colorado

Lois Capps, California

Tom Allen, Maine

Jim Davis, Florida

Tammy Baldwin, Wisconsin

John D. Dingell, Michigan
(Ex Officio)

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

Hayley, thanks for all the extra work you've done on here.

Lymies, please contact your state's REP to support this, co-sign, and get it out of comittee.
thank you! Bettyg [Big Grin]

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

up for action

Posted by Ann-OH (Member # 2020) on :

You can get all the necessary information, addresses, phone numbers on your own congress people

Just go to
www.congress.org/congressorg/home/

And type in your zip code in the search on the left and you will have everything you need.

Ann - OH

Posted by mjwallin (Member # 9630) on :

Barton of Texas is the chairman, and therefore the man with the power. If you watch the Imus in the Morning show on MSNBC, you would know that Imus has it in for Barton as he is also blocking legislation for funding Autism (he wants to reduce funding from the 900 million level, which everybody in Congress was in favor of, down to 300 million). He has called Barton every name in the book for saying one thing and doing another. What Barton's motives are, I have no idea; if he is trying to keep government expenses down, he should take a look at the money that goes down the hole for useless projects that I am sure he has no problem in voting for.

Autism is Imus's (and his wife's) pet concern. I have been thinking about trying to write to him to try and get him interested in Lyme, as we have a situation similar in many ways to what the medical profession is putting the Autism victims through, but I don't know if he would have any interest in what's going on here.

Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :

Mark, GO FOR IT; email him; call him, whatever! He appears a lot on LARRY KING LIVE also.

Get all the necessary info and put into the email to him. If you don't hear back in 2 weeks, resend it on a regular basis until someone answers.

Good luck, and please post what you send him ok! Thanks!! Speak up anytime; ideas are always welcome here ... especially activism ones!
Bettyg [Big Grin]