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From MLA National: Please contact your Senators today and encourage them to vote YES on the Specter/Harkin health care amendment to the budget resolution. It is possible that this amendment will be voted on as soon as the evening of March 22. 2007. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania) and Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced Wednesday, March 21, 2007, they are going to offer an amendment to the FY 2008 Senate Budget Resolution. This amendment would provide significant new money to the National Institutes of Health as described in the Specter-Harken Amendment #506. The amendment increases funding for Health-related programs (Function 550) by $2.2 billion above the amount provided in the underlying resolution.
This $2.2 billion (together with the increase of $1.6 billion included in the underlying resolution) would be used to:

1. restore NIH funding the fiscal year 2005 inflation-adjusted level (+$3.5 billion)
2. provide increases at the CDC and continue facilities construction and revitalization
3. restore funding for Health Professions Training Programs to their fiscal year 2005 levels

Contact information for your Senators can be found at: www.senate.gov