Urgent Vote This Week: Make Public Health a National Priority!
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!
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!
Dear Senator,
As a constituent, I urge you to uphold America's commitment to the publics 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 publics 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]
Signera petitionenSignera petitionenAs a constituent, I urge you to uphold America's commitment to the publics 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 publics 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]
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