Fw: Requesting Organizational Letters to Congressional Committee Chairs re The Environmental Health Research Act of 2003

December 17, 2003

Please review the following email and support this initiative. Also, please be

aware that this information ALSO applies to the Uterine Fibroid Research &

Education Act and that you may consider applying all of this information towards

a double-duty effort on both of these bills. Both are critical and impact

future research for women with reproductive disorders/fibroids/endocrine

disruption.

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Dear Friends and Endorsers of The Environmental

Health Research Act:

With the coming of the New Year we are

entering the â€œend gameâ€ of the current congressional session, as senators

and representatives begin to anticipate the 2004 presidential elections.

Weâ€™re coming to a make or break period for the Environmental Health Research

Act, so I ask that you make one special effort shortly to spring the bill loose

for passage.

Specifically, during the first full week

of January, as congressional staff return from their holiday break and focus on

congressâ€™s 2004 calendar, I ask that you send letters to key committee and

subcommittee chairs and ranking minority members, requesting that they

co-sponsor and support hearings on The Environmental Health Research Act

(S1588/HR852).

The core message, regardless of your

organizational affiliation, is the need to better understand how exposures to

toxic chemicals may be contributing to increases in various health disorders.

Both consumers and producers need to know this. We need to lower both the human

and financial cost of preventable disorders.

I can produce a draft letter for those who may

want one, but it is better if Congress receives diverse messages about the need

for this legislation, from those concerned about learning disabilities,

childrenâ€™s health, breast cancer, and the array of other effects of chemical

exposures. Some of you already have sent such letters to Representative

Slaughter, who introduced the bill in the House. You can now make additional

use of them.

In the Senate, the bill would be

considered at the full committee level in the Senate Health, Environment, Labor

and Pensions Committee. In the House, the bill could go either of two routes,

either through the Environment, Technology and Standards Subcommittee of the

House Science Committee, or the Public Health Subcommittee of the House Energy

and Commerce Committee. Following subcommittee consideration in the House, the

bill would go to the full committee before it could come to the House floor for

a vote.

I have listed below the names, titles,

and fax numbers of the key targets for your letters. I ask that you fax letters,

because letters sent by regular mail are subject to long delays stemming from

anthrax-related decontamination procedures. Your organizational letters will, I

hope, reinforce the messages legislators already have received from their

constituents. For example, through WWFâ€™s Conservation Action Network alone,

more than 32,000 messages have been sent to Congress. I appreciate the activist

alerts that some of you have sent that have added to that total, and I invite

others of you to activate your own networks.

If you send a letter, I would appreciate

your blind-copying me, so I may track what Congress is seeing.

Honorable Vernon Ehlers

Chair

Honorable Mark Udall

Ranking Member

Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and

Standards

House Committee on Science

2319 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington DC 20515

FAX: 202 225-4438

Honorable Sherwood Boehlert

Chair

Honorable Ralph Hall

Ranking Member

House Committee on Science

2320 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington DC 20515

FAX: 202 226-0113

Honorable Bilirakis

Chair

Honorable Sherrod Brown

Ranking Member

Subcommittee on Health

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

2125 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington DC 20515

FAX: 202 225-1919

Honorable W.J. Tauzin

Chair

Honorable D. Dingell

Ranking Member

House Committee on Energy and Commerce

2125 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington DC 20515

FAX: 202 225-1919

Honorable Judd Gregg

Chair

Honorable M. Kennedy

Ranking Member

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor

and Pensions

835 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

FAX: 202 224-6510

Thanks in advance for your help.

Rich Liroff

A. Liroff, Ph.D

Senior Fellow

Toxics Program

World Wildlife Fund

1250 24th Street NW

Washington DC 20037

ph 202 778-9644

fax 202 530-0743

e-mail Rich.Liroff@...

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