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| 05.23.06 |
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Advocacy Update: Senators Outraged by Decreased Research Funding
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Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) reacted angrily to testimony by NIH Director Elias Zerhouni and other health research advocates that painted a grim picture for the advancement of federally funded medical research. Also, the House of Representatives passed the fiscal year 2007 Budget Resolution on May 18, 2006 by a 218-210 vote, thereby avoiding an arcane procedural motion which would have allowed the leadership to set funding caps for appropriators without a chamber-wide vote.
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| 05.16.06 |
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House Leadership Uses Obscure Procedural Move to Cap Spending Levels
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After failing to secure a majority to pass the fiscal year 2007 Budget Resolution, the House leadership is now moving toward invoking a little used provision to set lower domestic spending levels consistent with the President's budget.
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| 05.10.06 |
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House Leadership Presses for Budget Bill Opposed by Health Advocates
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House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has indicated that he will schedule a full vote on a House Budget Resolution package as early as tomorrow, Thursday, May 11, 2006. Advocates are encouraged to contact their members of Congress to urge them to oppose any Budget Resolution legislation that does not include at least $7.2 billion more for domestic funding—including cancer research—than the President requested in his budget proposal.
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| 04.25.06 |
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House Budget Inaction Stalls Senate’s Cancer Funding Momentum
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This year’s federal budget and appropriations process is likely to be very contentious this year with strong disagreements between the Senate, the House, among moderate and conservative congressional Republicans, and members of the Budget and Appropriations committees. The question remains: Will medical and cancer research funding be cut for a second consecutive year?
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| 03.28.06 |
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House Budget Committee is Next Funding Hurdle
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The House Budget Committee is expected to take up an amendment offered by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) to add $7 billion to the House Budget Resolution to increase health and education spending. The amendment is similar to one passed by the Senate in mid-March 2006. It will likely face greater opposition in the House than in the Senate.
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| 02.14.06 |
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Support for Cancer Priorities Short-Changed in President’s Budget
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President Bush’s recent state-of-the-union speech set the stage for an annual federal spending proposal that threatens to further erode our nation’s long-standing commitment to advance the pace of medical research and drug access.
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| 02.09.05 |
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Federal Cancer Policy: The Big Picture and its Consequences
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The cancer community needs to reverse the current decline in the federal commitment to research and ensure that cancer patients receive fair benefits when the prescription drug benefit of the Medicare Modernization Act goes into effect in 2006. Greg Brozeit, the IMF's Director of Public Advocacy, examines the administration’s fiscal year 2006 budget proposal and recent revelations about the increasing costs for the Medicare program.
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| 01.31.05 |
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6th Annual One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC) Lobby Day
March 14-15, 2005
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For the myeloma community, the OVAC agenda is the best way to advocate for proper increases in funding for the National Cancer Institute, including myeloma research, and the blood cancers education program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| 09.25.04 |
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PET Scan Coverage Moving Forward
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The head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that his agency would rule on the coverage of PET scans for myeloma patients by the end of September 2004.
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| 05.06.04 |
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Myeloma Minute: Important News from Washington
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| 05.04.04 |
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IMF Urges Medicare to Add Thalidomide to Demonstration Project
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| 05.04.04 |
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Senators Urge Medicare to Cover PET Scans for Myeloma Patients
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| 01.28.04 |
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Senate Passes Funding Bill; Includes Money for Myeloma Community
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Funding to help support the IMF’s Bank On A Cure program highlighted the end of the congressional session for the myeloma and cancer communities.
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| 11.16.03 |
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Write to Congress
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How do you expect them to know what you want if you don't tell them. Use this simple tool from Congress.org to help you find your representatives in Congress.
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| 11.09.03 |
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Appropriations Update
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If the current bill is rolled into an omnibus appropriations bill, many in the cancer community are hopeful that the eventual funding increases for NIH could reach the needed 8-10 percent. But we need you to continue contacting Congress...
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| 04.04.03 |
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What is One Voice Against Cancer (OVAC)?
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One Voice Against Cancer is a coalition of more than 45 voluntary health and advocacy organizations focused on one thing: the appropriations process to fund cancer research and application programs.
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| 02.12.03 |
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Fulfilling the Promise of Genomics: Advocates Needed
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It is up to us to be responsible for spreading the gospel of genomics. If we educate policy makers about the implications of genomics for our futures, we will shape a policy program to make the best science of genomics accessible to all patients.
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| 07.20.01 |
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Public Awareness
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Learn how to capture the "power of the press" and other useful tools to help raise awareness of multiple myeloma.
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| 07.07.01 |
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Advocacy Information
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Tools and information to help get you started as an IMF advocate for the myeloma community.
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Last year's, first-ever Congressional hearing on blood cancers (myeloma, leukemia and lymphoma), along with the announcement that former vice presidential running mate Geraldine Ferraro is battling myeloma, has thrust multiple myeloma into a nationwide spotlight, demonstrating the power of both advocacy and awareness.
