myMeso » U.S. Senate http://www.mymeso.org Mesothelioma Blog Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:27:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Meso Day resolution passes in Senate, pending in House http://www.mymeso.org/2009/10/02/meso-day-resolution-passes-in-senate-pending-in-house/ http://www.mymeso.org/2009/10/02/meso-day-resolution-passes-in-senate-pending-in-house/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:36:31 +0000 Wendi Lewis http://www.mymeso.org/?p=1866 SOURCE: myMeso › Meso Day resolution passes in Senate, pending in House

]]> The has issued a news release announcing the resolution introduced last week in the U.S. Senate by Sen. to designate September 26 as National Awareness Day has passed! The resolution introduced simultaneously in the House of Representatives by Rep. Betty McCollum, designated as H.Res. 771, is still pending.

The Meso Foundation is urging the community to contact their House Representative to urge him or her to co-sponsor the bill. Representative McCollum still needs 13 more co-sponsors to complete the passage of National Awareness Day in both the House and the Senate.

The news release quotes Chris Hahn, Executive Director of the , “Thanks to the concern of Sen. Murray and Congresswoman McCollum, and their introduction of the federal ‘National Awareness Day’ resolution, we hope that will finally become part of a broad national conversation about its tragic impact in our society and the critical need to fund reserch to develop treatments and, ultimately, find a cure for .”

Your help is urgently needed to encourage House Representatives to co-sponsor this resolution. Visit the ’s “Action Center” at www.curemeso.org/action to send an email to your congressional representative.

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