ACTION ALERT: Act today to let your Senator know that cancer funding matters to you!

Your U.S. Senator is one of the 15 who have not yet announced how they will vote on a bill which could provide the National Cancer Institute (NCI) with a $65 million increase for the current fiscal year. Five years of flat funding have significantly hindered research progress and have forced the NCI to make difficult funding decisions and painful cuts to ongoing research projects. These additional funds are much needed to ensure that critical pancreatic cancer research can move forward!

The funding is included in the FY 2008 Supplemental Appropriations package, which will be considered by the Senate Appropriations Committee this Thursday afternoon, May 15th and on the Senate floor the week of May 19th. You are receiving this alert because at least one of your Senators has not yet committed to supporting the bill in either the Committee vote or on the Senate floor. The list of Senators that we are trying to reach are:

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)

Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME)

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN)

Sen. John Sununu (R-NH)

Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR)

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) – Appropriations Committee*

Sen. Robert Bennett (R-UT)

Sen. John Warner (R-VA)

*Please contact these Senators by Thursday, May 15!

Timing is critical, so please commit to contacting your Senator this week. Click here to be directed to our email system which will automatically generate a letter to your Senator outlining the importance of this funding. Don’t forget to personalize the e-mail by briefly adding your personal story. Remember that your Senators work to represent YOU! Let them hear how you feel about funding the fight against cancer. To write your Senators, please click here.

Please note that this alert will only generate letters to the Senators on this list. If you would like to do more, please click here for an action alert that you can do after you finish this one.