News: 2010
11-Jan-2010
SMA Treatment Acceleration Act gains 10 cosponsors, bringing the total to 72 in the House and 15 in the Senate!Congressional representatives Carney (PA), Slaughter (NY), Hall (TX), Heinrich (NM), Kagen (WI), Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Boren (OK), Kind (WI), McCaul (TX), and Stark (CA) have recently agreed to co-sponsor the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act, bringing the cosponsor total to 72 in the House of Representatives and 15 in the Senate.
A complete list of SMA Treatment Acceleration Act cosponsors is below. If your congressional representative is not on the list, we encourage you to write to them and urge them to support the SMA Treatment Acceleration Act. Click here for a sample letter.
Current Cosponsors:
In the House (62) | |
| Rep. Patrick Kennedy (RI) Sponsor | Rep. Eric Cantor (VA) Sponsor |
| Rep. Rodney Alexander (LA) | Rep. Spencer Bachus (AL) |
| Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI) | Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR) |
| Rep. Dan Boren (OK) | Rep. Rick Boucher (VA) |
| Rep. Bruce Braley (IA) | Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC) |
| Rep. Lois Capps (CA) | Rep. Christopher Carney (PA) |
| Rep. Kathy Castor (FL) | Rep. Donna Christensen (VI) |
| Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY) | Rep. Jim Cooper (TN) |
| Rep. Charles Dent (PA) | Rep. Steve Driehaus (OH) |
| Rep. John Fleming (LA) | Rep. Randy Forbes (VA) |
| Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (NE) | Rep. Barney Frank (MA) |
| Rep. Bob Goodlatte (VA) | Rep. Bart Gordon (TN) |
| Rep. Gene Green (TX) | Rep. John Hall (NY) |
| Rep. Ralph Hall (TX) | Rep. Gregg Harper (MS) |
| Rep. Martin Heinrich (NM) | Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD) |
| Rep. Brian Higgins (NY) | Rep. James Himes (CT) |
| Rep. Tim Holden (PA) | Rep. Steve Israel (NY) |
| Rep. Walter Jones (NC) | Rep. Steve Kagen (WI) |
| Rep. Dale Kildee (MI) | Rep. Ron Kind (WI) |
| Rep. Peter King (NY) | Rep. James Langevin (RI) |
| Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA) | Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY) |
| Rep. Eric Massa (NY) | Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (MI) |
| Rep. Mike McIntyre (NC) | Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA) |
| Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY) | Rep. James Moran (VA) |
| Rep. Glen Nye (VA) | Rep.Collin Peterson (MN) |
| Rep. Ted Poe (TX) | Rep. Tom Price (GA) |
| Rep. Adam Putnam (FL) | Rep. Harold Rogers (KY) |
| Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL) | Rep. Steve Rothman (NJ) |
| Rep. Bobby Rush (IL) | Rep. Bobby Scott (VA) |
| Rep. Joe Sestak (PA) | Rep. Louise McIntosh Slaughter (NY) |
| Rep. Fortney Pete Stark (CA) | Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS) |
| Rep. Patrick Tiberi (OH) | Rep. Edolphus Towns (NY) |
| Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL) | Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (GA) |
| Rep. Charles Wilson (OH) | Rep. Joe Wilson (SC) |
| Rep. Robert Wittman (VA) | Rep. Frank Wolf (VA) |
| Rep. David Wu (OR) | Rep. C.W. Bill Young (FL) |
In the Senate (16) | |
| Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI) Sponsor | Sen. Johnny Isakson (GA) Sponsor |
| Sen. Sherrod Brown (OH) | Sen. Richard Burr (NC) |
| Sen. Saxby Chambliss (GA) | Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (NY) |
| Sen. Kay Hagan (NC) | Sen. John Kerry (MA) |
| Sen. Frank Lautenberg (NJ) | Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ) |
| Sen. Patty Murray (WA) | Sen. Jack Reed (RI) |
| Sen. Bernard Sanders (VT) | Sen. Arlen Specter (PA) |
| Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (RI) | Sen. Roger Wicker (MS) |
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