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Important Brain Injury Legislative Alert

By Michael Kaplen

The Brain Injury Association of America has issued the following important legislative alert this evening:

Tell Your Senators to Vote YES on Advancing America's Priorities Act

Call Your Senators TODAY.  Click here to take action.

Earlier this week, Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced the Advancing America's Priorities Act (S. 3297), an omnibus bill that combines nearly three dozen non-controversial, bipartisan measures which have been blocked from full Senate consideration due to objections from Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn.

Among the measures included in this omnibus legislative package are two bills which are important to brain injury prevention and care in this country.  These two bills are The STOP Stroke Act (S. 999/H.R. 477) and the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act (S. 1183/H.R. 1727).

The STOP Stroke Act is bipartisan legislation by Senators Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) that would help ensure that all stroke patients are treated as quickly and effectively as possible. Among other things, the STOP Stroke Act would authorize a grant program to help provide states with resources to ensure that patients have access to quality stroke education, prevention, treatment and rehabilitation services by establishing coordinated stroke care systems.

The Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act is a non-controversial, bipartisan bill which is primarily about two things:  1 - Advancing collaborative research in paralysis and 2 - Improving the quality of life today for people living with paralysis and mobility impairments from any cause -- stroke, traumatic brain injury, ALS, spinal cord injuries, and others.

Call your Senators TODAY and urge them to vote YES on S. 3297 when it is considered the week of July 27, 2008. Click here to request your legislator vote YES.

   

Full post as published by Brain Injury News and Information on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).