Contacting Udall/NIH Committee Staff

[Barbara Blake-Krebs <BarbKKFI@xxxxxxx>]

Bob Martone and other Udall supporters, I have been giving some thought to
further steps we can take to both get a better handle on the NIH
reauthorization process and to hopefully get things moving.  I imagine that
each committee member may have a staff member assigned to either the Senate
or House committee, and that it is these folks who are hammering out the
details.  I would suggest that if a committee member is from is from your
state that you or your surrogate make a call to that staff person asap, and
ask questions on what's going on and report back to list.  That switchboard #
again 1-800-962-3524.   Below is a listing of known committee members.  CHECK
FIRST  AND SEE IF YOUR STATE IS AMONG THEM. IF YES, CHECK BELOW FOR NAME OF
CONGRESSPERSON.

(SENATE STATES:  Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, Rhode
Island, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington)


(HOUSE STATES:  Arkansas, California (2), Connecticut, Florida (3), Georgia,
Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York
North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas (3), Wisconsin)

SENATE COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND HUMAN RESOURCES
(1) Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, Chair - R - Kansas;  (2)  Sen. Edward M. Kennedy -
D - Massachusetts;  (3)  Sen. Judd Gregg - R - New Hampshire;  (4) Sen. John
Ashcroft - R - Missouri; (5) Sen. Spencer Abraham - R - Michigan; (6) Jim
Jeffords - R -Vermont;  (7) Sen. Dan Coats - R - Indiana; (8)  Sen. Bill
Frist - R - Tennessee;  (9) Sen. Mike Dewine - R - Ohio;  (10) Sen. Slade
Gorton - R - Washington;  (11) Sen. Claiborne Pell - D - Rhode Island;  (12)
 Sen. Christopher J. Dodd - D - Connecticut;  (13)  Sen. Paul Simon - D -
Illinois;  (14)  Sen. Tom Harkin - D - Iowa;  (15)  Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski
- D - Maryland;  (16) Sen. Paul D.  Wellstone - D - Minnesota


HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT
(1)  Rep. Michael Bilirakis, Chairman - R - Florida;  (2)  Rep. Blanche
Lambert Lincoln - D - Arkansas;  (3)  Sen. Ron Wyden - D - Oregon;  (4)  Rep.
Gary Franks - R - Connecticut;  (5)  Rep. Charles Norwood - R - Georgia;  (6)
 Rep. J. Dennis Hastert, Vice-Chairman - R - Illinois;  (7)  Rep. Greg Ganske
- R - Iowa;  (8) Rep. Ed Whitfield - R - Kentucky;  (9) Rep. Richard Burr - R
- North Carolina;  10)  Rep.  Joe Barton - R - Texas  (11)  Fred Upton - R -
New Jersey;  (12)  Cliffored B. Stearns - Florida;   (13) Scott L. Klug - R -
Wisconsin; (14)  Jim Greenwood - R - Pennsylvania;  (15)  Brian P. Bilbray -
R - California;  (16)  Tom Coburn - R - Oklahoma;  (17)  Harry A. Waxman - D
- California;  (18)  Sherrod Brown - D - Ohio;  (19)  Peter Deutsch - D -
Florida;  (20)  Bart Stupak - R - Michigan;  (21)  Ralph M. Hall - D - Texas;
 (22)  John Bryant - D - Texas;  (23)  Edolphus Towns - D - NY;  Gary E.
Studds - D - Maine:  (24) Bill Richardson - D - New Mexico

The switchboard # in Washington that will connect you to the committee or to
the Congresspersons's office is 1-800-962-3524.

Hope this long post is helpful.

Barbara Blake-Krebs
BarbKKFI@xxxxxxx