FW: [PP] DOD Funding

[Guest guest]

This is what Skip recently posted to one of the lists about the status

of the DoD appropriations.

Kathy

[sPAM] [PP] DOD Funding

Latest update from Cap. Hill

The full Apppropriations Committee of the House approved an amendment to

the spending bill governing DOD prostate cancer research that will allow

the prostate program to spend $80 million this year on research. This

is a cut of $5 million. Ovarian cancer received an increase of $5

million dollars so that they will have $15 million to spend on research.

Breast cancer took a cut of $35 million and will have $115 million to

spend in 2006. The amended bill makes sure that each organization

remains a separate line item and avoids the ³pooled² solution originally

sought in the bill.

While this is an important win for us, there remains the need to be ever

active and ever vigilant. The DOD is one of the most innovative and

effective research programs in the country. They are our ³special

forces² that take on highly targeted and highly risky missions and

succeed. As has been brought up by a number of people, there is a very

real need for constant and consistent involvement from the ³grassroots.²

NPCC is doing all it can to effect change, to ensure accountability for

federal resources spent, to work with the funders of prostate cancer to

prevent duplication of activities, build partnerships and to expedite

the cure for this disease. The missing ingredient, onco-politics aside,

is the grassroots to back up our claims and arguments. Please contact

us here at NPCC and let us know that you want to work on advocacy

issues. We desperately need your assistance.

--Skip

Skip Lockwood

Executive Vice President and COO

National Prostate Cancer Coalition

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