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ADVERTISING UPDATE
CONGRESSIONAL UPDATE

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UPDATE ON WOLF/ROYBAL-ALLARD AMENDMENT (6/3/99)

Support is building for passage of the Wolf/Roybal-Allard amendment to the Treasury, Postal Service and Government appropriations bill. This legislation would authorize the Office of National Drug Control Policy to include underage drinking prevention messages in the federally funded national youth anti-drug campaign. NCADD will pay for a full-page ad in the Roll Call, a widely read newspaper on Capitol Hill, urging members of Congress to pass the amendment. The ad, which will run on Monday, June 7, also will list other supporting organizations.

In the event that Congress does authorize ONDCP to include alcohol in its national youht anti-drug campaign, NCADD has writtent to General Barry McCaffrey to propose that the underage drinking prevention spots we produced with the AD Council in 1994 be used as part of the paid advertising now restricted to illicit drugs only. More importantly, we are offering to fund the productions of a new underage drinking prevention campaign as part of the paid advertising.

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If you have not already done so, please contact your representative and ask him or her support the Wolf/Roybal-Allard amendment. Call the Capitol Hill switchboard (202/224-3121) and ask for your representative's office. You can look up your representative's direct line or e-mail address on-line at Contact Your Representative on NCADD's website.

If you have any questions, please contact the Public Policy Office via e-mail at publicpolicy@ncadd.org.