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SUPPORT OF WOMEN’S HEALTH AMENDMENT TO BUDGET RESOLUTION

Take action by   Thursday, March 17, 2005

Senators Reid (D-NV) and Clinton (D-NY) will offer parts of S.20, "Prevention First," as an amendment to the Budget Resolution currently being discussed on the Senate floor. Votes will occur Thursday, March 17 in a giant "voterama" so that Senators can vote on all the amendments at once before they hurry to leave for 2 ½ weeks of their "spring break."

So, besides e-mailing your Senator to sponsor S.20, please call their state or Capitol offices and ask to speak with the staff person who handles the budget, or women's or health issues. Find their phone numbers and make the call ASAP. Ask them to support the Reid/Clinton amendment to the budget bill that supports family planning and important women's health needs.

This amendment should receive bipartisan support, so be sure and call your Republican and Democratic Senators.

The amendment will be introduced on Thursday and reads as follows:

(1) Increases public health funding for FY 2006 by $100 million.

(2) Expresses the Senate of the Senate that the $100 million should be used to:

(3) Expresses the Sense of the Senate that the prevention programs in the amendment are cost effective and will achieve savings by: reducing the number of unintended pregnancies, reducing the rate of sexually transmitted disease, reducing the costs to the Medicaid program, and providing for the early detection of HIV, breast cancer and cervical cancer.

The amendment is offset by revenues derived from closing corporate tax loopholes; and dedicates an additional $100 million to deficit reduction.

Thank you for contacting your Senators now and asking them to sponsor the ""Prevention First Act," ," S.20 and also call to support Senator's Reid and Clinton’s amendment to the budget resolution which will be on the floor of the Senate Thursday, March 17.