Contact SENATE Leaders!

Next week, advocates from around the country will spend two days on Capitol Hill meeting with congressional offices as part of our Lymphedema Lobby Days. For the next few weeks, you can help from home by contacting congressional leaders!

This week, we ask that you contact the following six Senate leadership offices. A phone script, sample Tweet, and fax forms are below. Choose your method of contact or feel free to use them all!

Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Orrin Hatch
phone (202) 224-5251 — fax (202) 224-6331 — Twitter @SenOrrinHatch

Finance Committee Ranking Member, Senator Ron Wyden
phone (202) 224-5244 — fax (202) 228-2717 — Twitter @RonWyden

Finance Health Subcommittee Chairman, Senator Patrick Toomey
phone (202) 224-4254 — fax (202) 228-0248 — Twitter @SenToomey

Finance Health Subcommittee Ranking Member, Senator Debbie Stabenow
phone (202) 224-4822 — fax (none) — Twitter @SenStabenow

Majority Whip , Senator John Cornyn
phone (202) 224-2934 — fax (none) — Twitter @JohnCornyn

Minority Whip, Senator Dick Durbin
phone (202) 224-2152 — fax (202) 228-0400 — Twitter@SenatorDurbin

 

Phone script:
“Please tell Senator [name] to pass the Lymphedema Treatment Act (S497) this year. With over 360 cosponsors, this bipartisan and bicameral bill is one of the most widely supported health care bills in Congress. Millions of Americans with lymphedema – the majority of them cancer survivors – are counting on Senator [name] to modernize Medicare and close this coverage gap.”

Fax form (GoogleDocs):
Version 1 – download as a Word doc, complete then print.
Version 2 – print then complete by hand.

Twitter message:
Please pass @LymphedemaAct now! bipart/bicam 360+ cosponsors! Millions—mostly cancer survivors—need coverage gap fix @HHSGov

Together, we can pass the LTA!

Heather Ferguson
Founder & Executive Director
Lymphedema Advocacy Group
LymphedemaTreatmentAct.org