From: PATBNAAV@aol.com
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2000
Subject: Fwd: IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED
To: pdxavets@aracnet.com
Dear everyone:
It is absolutely imperative that this message get out to as many on your
lists as possible. Both these measures are vital to all veterans, especially
the atomic vets.
Love to y'all
Pat B
M E M O R A N D U M
TO: National Officers
Supervisory National Service Officers
Department Commanders and Adjutants
Selected Benefits Protection Team Leaders
Action E-List
DAV CAN members
FROM: Joseph A. Violante, National Legislative Director
SUBJ: IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED
DATE: September 18, 2000
Please contact your Senators immediately and request their support
for an attempt by Senators Paul Wellstone (D-MN), Tim Johnson (D-SD), and
others to increase fiscal year (FY) 2001 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
health care funding by $500 million.
Senators Wellstone and Johnson will be asking all members of the
Senate to sign onto a letter going to the Administration, Senate leadership,
and VA/HUD appropriations conferees concerning the need to provide
sufficient funding in the FY 2001 VA health care appropriation to meet the
increasing costs and new health care challenges facing the VA.
Please call or e-mail your Senators and urge them to sign onto the
Wellstone-Johnson letter as a good faith effort toward restoring fairness to
the veterans' health care budget and to ensure full funding in FY 2001 for
VA health care programs. A prepared e-mail message concerning this matter
can be found on the legislative action section of our web site at http://www.dav.org.
Additionally, we call upon you to contact Representative Bob Stump
(R-AZ), Chairman of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee at (202) 225-4756
and call or e-mail Representative Lane Evans (D-IL), Ranking Member of the
House Veterans' Affairs Committee, at (202) 225-5905 or
lane.evans@mail.house.gov to encourage them to strongly support provisions
in S. 1810 to expand the list of presumptive disabilities resulting from
exposure to ionizing radiation to include lung, colon, and ovarian cancers
and tumors of the brain and central nervous system. A prepared e-mail
message for Representative Evans is available on our web site at
www.dav.org.
As always, thank you for your support and prompt attention to this matter.
JOSEPH A. VIOLANTE
National Legislative Director
PAT BROUDY
Legislative Advisor