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	TMJ News Bites June 2010 Volume 3, Issue 2
Arizona: John Shadegg (Republican - District 03) Arkansas: Mike Ross (Democrat - District 03) California: Anna G. Eshoo (D-14) Jane Harman (D-36) Henry Waxman (D-30) Colorado: Diana DeGette (D-01) Connecticut: Christopher S. Murphy (D-05) Florida: Kathy Castor (D-11) Georgia: Phil Gingrey (R-11) John Barrow (D-12) Illinois: John Shimkus (R-19) Jan Schakowsky (D-09) Indiana: Steve Buyer (R-04) Iowa: Bruce L. Braley (D-01) Kentucky: Ed Whitfield (R-01) Maryland: John P. Sarbanes (D-03) Michigan: John D. Dingell (D-15) Mike Rogers (R-08) Missouri: Roy Blunt (R-07) New York: Eliot L. Engel (D-17) Anthony D. Weiner (D-09) North Carolina: Sue Wilkins Myrick (R-09) Ohio: Zachary T. Space (D-18) Oklahoma: John Sullivan (R-01) Pennsylvania: Joseph R. Pitts (R-16) Tim Murphy (R-18) Tennessee: Bart Gordon (D-06) Marsha Blackburn (R-07) Texas: Gene Green (D-29) Joe Barton (R-06) Ralph M. Hall (R-04) Charles A. Gonzalez (D-20) Michael C. Burgess (R-26) Utah: Jim Matheson (D-02) Virgin Islands: Donna M. Christensen (D-01)	Last month, the Overlapping Conditions Alliance successfully launched the Campaign to End Chronic Pain in Women. There is already growing Congressional interest in this effort, but we need your help today! If your U.S. Representative hears from a number of his/her constituents about this issue, he/she is likely to support this important request. Your input makes all the difference! U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) has written a letter to Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, requesting that the Subcommittee convene a Congressional hearing specifically focused on chronic pain conditions that disproportionately or solely impact women including vulvodynia, temporomandibular disorders (TMJ), chronic fatigue syndrome, endometriosis, interstitial cystitis and fibromyalgia. Not only will this campaign benefit women with TMJ disorders, but men as well. This is the key House panel with authority over the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other federal agencies that are central to improving the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of vulvodynia and other women's pain disorders. This hearing would be a major step forward in raising awareness of the need to expand federal research on these conditions among leaders in Congress and several federal agencies. U.S. Representatives Lois Capps (D-CA) and Betty Sutton (D-OH) have already signed on to the letter. The other Reps. listed sit on this key panel, but have not yet committed to joining this important request. If you live in one of these states, and your U.S. Representative is listed, please take just 5 minutes to email your Rep. urging him/her to sign on to this important letter. (If you're not sure who your Rep. is, please enter your zip code in the search field on this web site.) Thank you!

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