Florida Breast Cancer Coalition Research Foundation

Legislative + Public Policy Priorities

Below are the National Breast Cancer Coalition's legislative and public policy priorities for 2008.

Click on any description to view details of each priority including supporting legislation, bill co-sponsor lists, testimony and press releases.

1	Guaranteed access to quality healthcare for all. We will not end breast cancer until all women have guaranteed access to quality health care regardless of their ability to pay.

2	$150 million dollar appropriation for the Department of Defense (DoD) peer-reviewed Breast Cancer Research Program (BCRP) for fiscal year (FY) 2007.

3	Passage of legislation that would authorize funding for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) to research links between breast cancer and the environment.

4	Preservation of the Medicaid Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program.

For more information, please visit: www.stopbreastcancer.org.

Write to your Legislators
Letters to Members of Congress have been one of the most powerful tools for breast cancer advocates and are considered to be more effective than phone calls and e-mail. Congressional staff members generally respond to every letter and consider them to be a very important measure of constituent opinion. The number of letters that have streamed into Congressional offices on the issue of breast cancer often have made a critical difference in gaining a legislator's support.

To identify your legislator and learn about current issues, status of legislation, etc. For more information, please visit www.thomas.loc.gov.

Florida Congressional Delegation

To a Senator: The Honorable (full name) United States Senate Washington, DC 20510		To a The Honorable (full name) United States House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515

THE SENATE

Mel Martinez Republican District: 2 Phone: 202-224-3041 Fax: 202-228-5772 356 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Room: SR-C2		Bill Nelson Democrat District: 1 Phone: 202-224-5274 Fax: 202-228-2183 716 Heart Office Senate Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Room: SH-716

THE HOUSE

Jeff Miller Republican District: 1 Phone: 202-225-4136 Fax: 202-225-3414 324 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-324		Allen Boyd Democrat District: 2 Phone: 202-225-5235 Fax: 202-225-5612 1227 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB-1227

Corrine Brown Democrat District: 3 Phone: 202-225-0123 Fax: 202-225-2256 2444 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2444		Ander Crenshaw Republican District: 4 Phone: 202-225-2501 Fax: 202-225-2504 127 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-127

Ginny Brown-Waite Republican District: 5 Phone: 202-225-1002 Fax: 202-226-6559 414 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-414		Cliff Stearns Republican District: 6 Phone: 202-225-5744 Fax: 202-225-3973 2370 Raybum House Office Buidling Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2370

John Mica Republican District: 7 Phone: 202-225-4035 Fax: 202-226-0821 2313 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2313		Ric Keller Republican District: 8 Phone: 202-225-2176 Fax: 202-226-2048 419 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-419

Michael Bilirakis Republican District: 9 Phone: 202-225-5755 Fax: 202-225-4085 1630 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB 1630		Bill Young Republican District: 10 Phone: 202-225-5961 Fax: 202-225-9764 2407 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2407

Kathy Castor Democrat District: 11 Phone: (202) 225-3376 Fax: (202) 225-5652 317 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-317		Adam Putnam Republican District: 12 Phone: 202-225-1252 Fax: 202-226-0585 1725 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB-1725

Vern Buchanan Republican District: 13 Phone: (202) 225-5015 Fax: (202) 226-0828 1516 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB-1516		Connie Mack Republican District: 14 Phone: 202-225-2536 Fax: 202-226-0439 115 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-115

Dave Weldon Republican District: 15 Phone: 202-225-3671 Fax: 202-225-3516 2347 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2347		Tim Mahoney Democrat District: 16 Phone: 202-225-5792 Fax: 202-225-3132 1541 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB-1541

Kendrick Meek Democrat District: 17 Phone: 202-225-4506 Fax: 202-226-0777 1039 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: LHOB-1039		Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican District: 18 Phone: 202-225-3931 Fax: 202-225-5620 2160 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2160

Robert Wexler Democrat District: 19 Phone: 202-225-3001 Fax: 202-225-5974 213 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-213		Debbie Wasserman Schultz Democrat District: 20 Phone: 202-225-7931 Fax: 202-226-2052 118 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-118

Lincoln Diaz-Balart Republican District: 21 Phone: 202-225-4211 Fax: 202-225-8576 2244 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2244		Ron Klein Democrat District: 22 Phone: 202-225-3026 Fax: 202-225-8398 313 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-313

Alcee Hastings Democrat District: 23 Phone: 202-225-1313 Fax: 202-225-1171 2353 Raybum House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: RHOB-2353		Tom Feeney Republican District: 24 Phone: 202-225-2706 Fax: 202-226-6299 323 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-323

Mario Diaz-Balart Republican District: 25 Phone: 202-225-2778 Fax: 202-226-0346 328 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Room: CHOB-313

Other Links
http://www.politicsnationwide.com/
http://www.myflorida.com/
http://www.congress.org