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Urgent Vote This Week: Make Public Health a National Priority!

Target: U.S. Senate
Sponsored by: Trust for America's Health

CRITICAL VOTE THIS WEEK: Urge Your Senators to Vote "YES" on Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment to Increase Funding for Health and Education Programs in the Senate Budget Resolution

Public health is all about preventing and reducing disease and minimizing health threats -- whether naturally occurring like pandemic influenza or the result of a bioterrorist attack. On February 6, 2006, the President released his FY 2007 budget request which significantly shortchanges our nation's public health programs.

Cuts to programs intended to prevent chronic diseases like cancer, asthma and diabetes are especially troubling, given that seventy percent of U.S. deaths are caused by of chronic diseases every year. Allowing proposed cuts to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the agency responsible for reducing disease and improving health, runs counter to Americans' desire to improve health in this country.

Senators Specter, Harkin and Kennedy have offered an amendment to the Senate Budget Resolution that will increase the budget level by $7 billion, providing much needed additional funds for important programs, including those promoting the public's health.

We need your voice today - sign now to send an email to your Senators, and urge them to restore cuts to public health programs by supporting the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment. It's time that we ensure our public's health is a national priority!

deadline: 3-14-2007
goal: 10,000

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We won! Thanks to all of your emails to your Senators, we won - the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy Amendment passed the Senate on March 16, 2006!

Dear Senator,

As a constituent, I urge you to uphold America's commitment to the public’s health by supporting the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy amendment to increase the budget level by $7 billion, providing much needed additional funds for important programs, including those promoting the public’s health. This funding is vital to the health and safety of every American.

The President's FY 2007 budget request proposed $600 million in cuts to essential public health programs, including elimination of the Preventive Health and Health Series Block Grant and deep cuts to cancer, Alzheimer's, birth defects, and heart disease research and prevention programs. Sadly, these cuts follow decisions made by Congress and the Administration to cut discretionary public health funding by over $1 billion in FY 2006. When inflation is factored in, the cuts total nearly 10 percent to agencies at the forefront of public health preparedness.

I believe we should be investing in public health programs that seek to find causes and cures for chronic diseases in addition we should strengthen the ability of state and local health departments to respond to a health emergency, be it a pandemic flu outbreak or a terrorist attack involving anthrax or another deadly substance. I believe that every American should be able to count on the federal government to make public health a national priority, which will keep all of us safer and healthier. Vote "YES" on the Specter/Harkin/Kennedy amendment and keep America Healthy and strong.

Thank you for consideration. I hope I can rely on your support.

[Your name]
[Your address]

We signed the “Urgent Vote This Week: Make Public Health a National Priority!” petition!

# 200:

6:13 pm PST, Mar 14, Dawn Ellner, California

# 199:

6:12 pm PST, Mar 14, Amanda B., Ohio

# 198:

6:12 pm PST, Mar 14, Jacqueline Sorvino, Germany

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6:11 pm PST, Mar 14, Timothy Rambow, South Carolina

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6:11 pm PST, Mar 14, Natalie Davis, California

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6:11 pm PST, Mar 14, Judy Bierman, Pennsylvania

# 194:

6:11 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, Maryland
Refusal to spend money on health care is a disaster or a mistake. In other words, more people will suffer and more people will perish.

# 193:

6:10 pm PST, Mar 14, Francis Wiget II, Arizona

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6:10 pm PST, Mar 14, Veronica Madore, New York

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6:09 pm PST, Mar 14, Destinyd Dunn, Michigan

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6:09 pm PST, Mar 14, Mamabear Claw, California

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6:09 pm PST, Mar 14, Beverly Mcclain, Indiana

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6:09 pm PST, Mar 14, Lindsay Baber, Massachusetts

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6:08 pm PST, Mar 14, Ted Greer, California
I BELIEVE PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDING NEEDS TO BE A PRIMARY CONCERN FOR THE COUNTRY.AT ISSUE IS THE LACK OF HEALTH INSURANCE FOR THOSE WORKING AT A DISMAL WAGE,WITH LITTLE OR NO HOPE IN SEEING A DOCTOR. IT IS THE DUTY AND OBLIGATION OF THIS COUNTRY TO PROVIDE HEALTHCARE,NOT ONLY FOR THE WORKING POOR BUT ALSO FOR THE UNFORTUNATE WHO FOR UNFORSEEN CIRCUMSTANCES ARE NOT ABLE TO WORK,WHETHER IT BE PHYSICAL OR MENTAL INCAPACITY.

# 186:

6:08 pm PST, Mar 14, S Yuen Chuah, Arizona

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6:08 pm PST, Mar 14, Nicole Cates, Oregon

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6:08 pm PST, Mar 14, Donna Kenneth, Connecticut

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6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Nicole Smith, Michigan

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6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Sage Yellow Thunder, South Dakota

# 181:

6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, Tennessee

# 180:

6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Ashley Adler, Illinois
Healthy people are happy people.

# 179:

6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Kirsten Harma, Washington

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6:07 pm PST, Mar 14, Alethia Weingarten, New York

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6:06 pm PST, Mar 14, Stephani Mcgrath, Washington

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Barbi Claridge, California

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Kelly Carter, New York

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Deanka Grisham, Georgia

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Jerry Loos, California

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Laura Martin, Florida

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Nadine Paslawsky-braggs, Virginia

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Pam Dupree, Tennessee

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6:05 pm PST, Mar 14, Wanda Coble, North Carolina

# 168:

6:04 pm PST, Mar 14, Lisa Michelle Ayers, California
If you deny folks like me necessary healthcare we could fall victime to contagious diseases & I could cough on you someday. So for everyone's sake do the right thing for a change and STOP cutting back on the poor, handicapped, sickly, and elderly! Afterall the life you save could be your own. :)

# 167:

6:04 pm PST, Mar 14, Charlotte Weston, Connecticut
Please help keep our people healthy

# 166:

6:04 pm PST, Mar 14, Tracy LeCapitaine, Minnesota

# 165:

6:04 pm PST, Mar 14, Lynn Patti, Florida

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6:03 pm PST, Mar 14, Jettie Lee Slater, Ohio

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6:03 pm PST, Mar 14, Emily Wahl, Oregon

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6:03 pm PST, Mar 14, Toshia Chavez, Delaware

# 161:

6:03 pm PST, Mar 14, Amanda Nelson, Indiana

# 160:

6:02 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, Texas
Everyone cannot afford health care when prices are so high. We MUST have public health care.

# 159:

6:02 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, Maryland

# 158:

6:02 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, South Carolina

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6:01 pm PST, Mar 14, Name not displayed, California

# 156:

6:01 pm PST, Mar 14, Elisabeth Clark, Massachusetts

# 155:

6:01 pm PST, Mar 14, Margaret Rydant, Massachusetts

# 154:

6:01 pm PST, Mar 14, John Marius, Virginia

# 153:

6:01 pm PST, Mar 14, JoAnna B., California
It is important that our health issues are a priority as it effects our nation and should be everyones concern.

# 152:

6:00 pm PST, Mar 14, Barbara Robinson, Washington

# 151:

6:00 pm PST, Mar 14, Kate Carreon, California

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