We Meet With Senate Offices THIS WEEK – Help Increase Our Impact!

by Heather on December 12, 2022

We are continuing to push for the Lymphedema Treatment Act to either be included in the year-end legislative package or receive a Senate vote as a stand-alone bill.  This week, members of our Board and select advocates will be in DC meeting with Senate offices, in order to do everything possible to get the LTA across the finish line before this Congress wraps up.

Your continued calls to your Senate offices will help increase our impact and chances of success! This Friday, December 16th, was the scheduled final day for this Congress. However, it is now widely anticipated that the Senate will now stay in session through next week, due to delays in finalizing the year-end legislative package.

Thank you to everyone who has already called, and congratulations to the winners of our first round garment drawing: Ken from Minnesota, Janet from Georgia, and Joni from California. We are in the process of contacting the winners for our second and final round of garment drawings. But the real prize for all of us will be getting the LTA signed into law, so that all patients will finally have insurance coverage for their compression garments! 

Your phone calls are ensuring that the Lymphedema Treatment Act is one of the bills being considered for year-end passage, and every single phone call counts – literally! Offices tally the number of calls received on each topic and report that to the Senator. So please, call again this week, and ask as many other people across the country as you can to do the same!

Tips on what to say during your call are below. However, we highly recommend that you use our Senate Call Action Alert, which enables you to log your call. It is very helpful for us to be able to track how many calls each office has received. If you haven’t used one of our call alerts before, here is a quick video tutorial.

Please keep the calls coming – we are so close, we can’t let up now! Most offices have voicemail, so you call any time, day or night. Thank you!

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

CALL SCRIPT & TIPS:

  • I am a constituent calling to ask that the Senate please pass S.1315, the Lymphedema Treatment Act, before the end of the year. This bill was passed by the House last month. This issue is important to me because…
     
  • If your Senator is a cosponsor on the list below, mention that and say thank you. REMEMBER – during our House vote, 76 members who were not cosponsors voted yes, but 5 who were cosponsors voted no, so outreach to every Senator is important, regardless of cosponsor status. 
      
  • If you are a constituent of Senator Cantwell (our lead sponsor) or Senator Grassley (our co-lead sponsor), it’s still very important that they hear from you. Thank them for their leadership on the bill and urge them to do everything possible to make sure it is passed this year!
     
  • If you are leaving a voicemail, include your name and zip code.

AK-Senate: Lisa Murkowski, 202-224-6665 Cosponsor
AK-Senate: Dan Sullivan, 202-224-3004 Cosponsor
AL-Senate: Richard Shelby, 202-224-5744
AL-Senate: Tommy Tuberville, 202-224-4124 
AR-Senate: Tom Cotton, 202- 224-2353  Cosponsor
AR-Senate: John Boozman, 202- 224-4843  Cosponsor
AZ-Senate: Kyrsten Sinema, 202- 224-4521  Cosponsor
AZ-Senate: Mark Kelly, 202-224-2235  Cosponsor
CA-Senate: Dianne Feinstein, 202-224-3841  Cosponsor
CA-Senate: Alex Padilla, 202- 224-3553  Cosponsor
CO-Senate: John Hickenlooper, 202-224-5941  Cosponsor
CO-Senate: Michael Bennet, 202-224-5852  Cosponsor
CT-Senate: Chris Murphy, 202-224-4041  Cosponsor
CT-Senate: Richard Blumenthal, 202- 224-2823  Cosponsor
DE-Senate: Chris Coons, 202-224-5042  Cosponsor
DE-Senate: Tom Carper, 202- 224-2441  Cosponsor
FL-Senate: Marco Rubio, 202- 224-3041  Cosponsor
FL-Senate: Rick Scott, 202- 224-5274  Cosponsor
GA-Senate: Jon Ossoff, 202-224-3521  Cosponsor
GA-Senate: Raphael Warnock, 202- 224-3643  Cosponsor
HI-Senate: Brian Schatz, 202- 224-3934  Cosponsor
HI-Senate: Mazie Hirono, 202-224-6361  Cosponsor
IA-Senate: Joni Ernst, 202-224-3254  Cosponsor
IA-Senate: Chuck Grassley, 202-224-3744  Co-lead Sponsor
ID-Senate: Jim Risch, 202-224-2752
ID-Senate: Mike Crapo, 202-224-6142
IL-Senate: Dick Durbin, 202-224-2152  Cosponsor
IL-Senate: Tammy Duckworth, 202-224-2854  Cosponsor
IN-Senate: Todd Young, 202-224-5623  Cosponsor
IN-Senate: Mike Braun, 202-224-4814
KS-Senate: Roger Marshall, 202-224-4774  Cosponsor
KS-Senate: Jerry Moran, 202-224-6521 Cosponsor
KY-Senate: Rand Paul, 202-224-4343
KY-Senate: Mitch McConnell, 202-224-2541
LA-Senate: Bill Cassidy, 202-224-5824  Cosponsor
LA-Senate: John Kennedy, 202-224-4623
MA-Senate: Elizabeth Warren, 202-224-4543  Cosponsor
MA-Senate: Ed Markey, 202-224-2742  Cosponsor
MD-Senate: Chris Van Hollen, 202-224-4654  Cosponsor
MD-Senate: Ben Cardin, 202-224-4524  Cosponsor
ME-Senate: Susan Collins, 202-224-2523  Cosponsor
ME-Senate: Angus King, 202-224-5344  Cosponsor
MI-Senate: Gary Peters, 202-224-6221  Cosponsor
MI-Senate: Debbie Stabenow, 202-224-4822  Cosponsor
MN-Senate: Tina Smith, 202-224-5641  Cosponsor
MN-Senate: Amy Klobuchar, 202-224-3244  Cosponsor
MO-Senate: Josh Hawley, 202-224-6154  Cosponsor
MO-Senate: Roy Blunt, 202-224-5721  Cosponsor
MS-Senate: Cindy Hyde-Smith, 202-224-5054  Cosponsor
MS-Senate: Roger Wicker, 202-224-6253  Cosponsor
MT-Senate: Steve Daines, 202-224-2651  Cosponsor
MT-Senate: Jon Tester, 202-224-2644  Cosponsor
NC-Senate: Richard Burr, 202-224-3154
NC-Senate: Thom Tillis, 202-224-6342  Cosponsor
ND-Senate: Kevin Cramer, 202-224-2043  Cosponsor 
ND-Senate: John Hoeven, 202-224-2551  Cosponsor
NE-Senate: Deb Fischer, 202-224-6551  Cosponsor
NE-Senate: Ben Sasse, 202-224-4224
NH-Senate: Jeanne Shaheen, 202-224-2841  Cosponsor
NH-Senate: Margaret Wood Hassan, 202-224-3324  Cosponsor
NJ-Senate: Cory Booker, 202-224-3224  Cosponsor
NJ-Senate: Bob Menendez, 202-224-4744  Cosponsor
NM-Senate: Ben Ray Lujan, 202-224-6621  Cosponsor
NM-Senate: Martin Heinrich, 202-224-5521  Cosponsor
NV-Senate: Jacky Rosen, 202-224-6244  Cosponsor
NV-Senate: Catherine Cortez Masto, 202-224-3542  Cosponsor
NY-Senate: Kirsten Gillibrand, 202-224-4451  Cosponsor
NY-Senate: Chuck Schumer, 202-224-6542  Cosponsor
OH-Senate: Sherrod Brown, 202-224-2315  Cosponsor
OH-Senate: Rob Portman, 202-224-3353
OK-Senate: Jim Inhofe, 202-224-4721  Cosponsor
OK-Senate: James Lankford, 202-224-5754  Cosponsor 
OR-Senate: Jeff Merkley, 202-224-3753  Cosponsor 
OR-Senate: Ron Wyden, 202-224-5244
PA-Senate: Pat Toomey, 202-224-4254
PA-Senate: Bob Casey, 202-224-6324  Cosponsor
RI-Senate: Sheldon Whitehouse, 202-224-2921  Cosponsor
RI-Senate: Jack Reed, 202-224-4642  Cosponsor
SC-Senate: Tim Scott, 202-224-6121  Cosponsor
SC-Senate: Lindsey Graham, 202-224-5972  Cosponsor
SD-Senate: John Thune, 202-224-2321
SD-Senate: Mike Rounds, 202-224-5842  Cosponsor
TN-Senate: Marsha Blackburn, 202-224-3344
TN-Senate: Bill Hagerty, 202-224-4944
TX-Senate: Ted Cruz, 202-224-5922
TX-Senate: John Cornyn, 202-224-2934
UT-Senate: Mike Lee, 202-224-5444
UT-Senate: Mitt Romney, 202-224-5251
VA-Senate: Mark Warner, 202-224-2023  Cosponsor
VA-Senate: Tim Kaine, 202-224-4024 
VT-Senate: Patrick Leahy, 202-224-4242  Cosponsor
VT-Senate: Bernie Sanders, 202-224-5141  Cosponsor
WA-Senate: Patty Murray, 202-224-2621  Cosponsor
WA-Senate: Maria Cantwell, 202-224-3441  Lead Sponsor
WI-Senate: Tammy Baldwin, 202-224-5653  Cosponsor
WI-Senate: Ron Johnson, 202-224-5323 
WV-Senate: Shelley Moore Capito, 202-224-6472  Cosponsor
WV-Senate: Joe Manchin, 202-224-3954
WY-Senate: Cynthia Lummis, 202-224-3424
WY-Senate: John Barrasso, 202-224-6441

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