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Men's Health Act Introduced in Senate
posted by Scott on Friday July 19, @04:52AM
from the men's-health dept.
Men's Health Equalitarian62 sent us a link to this message on the Men's Health America mailing list, which announces that the Men's Health Act has been introduced in the Senate. "This exciting development means that a bill to establish an Office of Men's Health has been introduced in both chambers of Congress. The Senate version of the Men's Health Act was assigned bill number S. 2616, and has now been referred to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ("HELP") for further consideration. The Senate bill matches H.R. 632, which was introduced in the House of Representatives last year. If you never got the chance to write to your legislators in support of the MHA, now's a great time to do so!

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senators on committee (Score:1)
by Tony (MensRights@attbi.com) on Friday July 19, @02:47PM EST (#1)
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Here is a list of the members of the HELP committee. I would strongly urge any one who has a senator from their state on this committee to write them. [note: a hand written letter is 1000x more effective than one sent by email.] http://www.senate.gov/~labor/Members/members.htm
Tony
Re:senators on committee (Score:1)
by bledso on Friday July 19, @10:57PM EST (#2)
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Hillary Clinton is my rep on the committee. That might be the equivalent of talking to a wall. I don't get the impression she is interested in helping men in any way. Writing to the others may be helpful though.
Re:senators on committee (Score:1)
by Tony (MensRights@attbi.com) on Saturday July 20, @04:01AM EST (#3)
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cann't hurt to try thought.
Tony
Re:senators on committee (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Saturday July 20, @05:11AM EST (#4)
Actualy, talking to HILLARY CLINTON about men's issues, is as productive as a JEWISH person talking to HITLER about jewish issues. THUNDERCLOUD.
Re:senators on committee (Score:2)
by frank h on Saturday July 20, @12:10PM EST (#6)
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Well, don't NOT write to her on that basis. She is quite challengable in 2006, and she CLEARLY does not have ANY constituency among men. Perhaps she might try a little bit.
Re:senators on committee (Score:1)
by Ray on Sunday July 21, @12:16AM EST (#7)
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I gave up on snail mail to the hill, because I heard it wasn't getting through after all the postal problems following 9/11. I heard they are irradiating it now. The reps don't seem to like snail mail much anymore from what I've heard. I know one political action group is using telegrams, and I've used that 3 or 4 times, but that's expensive at $15.00 a pop. Any insights on all that?
Ray
Re:senators on committee (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Sunday July 21, @11:21PM EST (#8)
(well, don't NOT write to her on that basis. She is quite challengable in 2006, and she CLEARLY does not have ANY constituency amoung men. Perhaps she might try a little bit.)
Good point, Frank.
To be honest, I was just useing the opportunity to flame Hillary.
...Thundecloud...
Re:senators on committee (Score:2)
by frank h on Thursday July 25, @12:13PM EST (#9)
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Well, she certainly deserves flaming in my opinion, TC. But she has to get re-elected, and she's gonna need votes to do that. I read recently that the Democratic National Committee wants to court men, as they recognize, at least privately, that they lost the White House on the men's vote. So we ought to make it easy for them to see what we want: gender equality.
Re:senators on committee (Score:1)
by Tom on Saturday July 20, @08:53AM EST (#5)
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Thanks for the link Tony. I hadn't realized that one of my senators Barbara Mikulski is on that committee. I will call and write a letter asap. I worry though that she is a lesbian and though she is a social worker she probably will not be in favor. We will see.
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