Thank you very much, Congressman Dold, for broadcasting this insightful piece about the importance of foreign aid and the power we have to save lives of those most in need. It has been a pleasure to meet with you and your staff when I've represented Shot@Life and RESULTS to ask for your help to take action on global health. Thank you for co-signing H.Res. 734 and helping to educate your district on the need to make these modest investments with such great returns!

Thank you for your support of H.Res. 734 and for understanding the valuable work the members of these organizations do to help promote global health. The end of polio is in sight, and groups such as RESULTS and the UN Foundation Shot@Life understand that vaccines work.

In the past 30 years, the number of children under 5 dying every year around the world has been cut in half. We've achieved this through increased access to health care, including vaccine and antibiotics to fight common killers like pneumonia and diarrhea.
But it isn't enough to cut child deaths in half when nearly 20,000 children still die every day from treatable and preventable diseases.
We have the knowledge and resources to ensure every child can have a 5th birthday. It will be up to our political leaders to give this issue the priority it deserves.
This summer, the U.S., India, Ethiopia co-hosted a Call to Action to create a roadmap to end preventable child deaths within a generation. As a first step toward achieving this goal, Congress should preserve funding for global child health and other aid programs, which save lives with less than 1 percent of the federal budget.

Congressman,
Bravo, kudos & orchids to you for this brilliant action. Now, persuade others in the Congress to follow your visionary lead. And thanks to you.

Congressman Dold, I also want to thank you and your staff for being so supportive of the work we do at RESULTS and Shot@Life. By signing onto H. Res 734 and writing this op-ed, you are supporting the important work that foreign aid funds, helping to save lives and educating your constituents. That is quite an accomplishment and we are very grateful!

Congressman, you voted against the Affordable Care Act that will bring affordable healthcare to millions of Americans. Your OP ED fails to mention the importance of healthcare right here in America. I'm all for foreign aid, and apparently you are too. I guess where we differ is that I am also for affordable healthcare for all Americans. Something you voted against.

Wow, he sure got his minions on here posting in short order.

Those of us that believe that we are all a part of a global community are inspired that you have signed on to Res.734. Thank you for your bold choice to help the voiceless around our world who are so vulnerable and hopeless.
You give us hope in our Congressional Leadership for the WORLD.

I read HR 734, and I can't tell what it does. Does this trigger any action?

http://legiscan.com/gaits/text/659356

Thank you very much, Congressman Dold, for co-sponsored the Front-line Health Workers Resolution (H.Res. 734). and for all your support with global vaccines. We live in a global society and organizations like United Nations Foundations Shot@Life campaign, Results and many others wonderful organizations are helping to save children life. Very grateful for your support and understanding in the importance of global health.

Thank you so much for supporting this critical initiative. Front Line Health Care Workers are central to saving lives and alleviating poverty. Please continue your good work! I'm proud to have Congressman Ellison supporting this as well. Lets make the world a better place for all.

Thank you SO MUCH Congressman Dold! And I work on your campaign! Oops, should I have said that?

Thank you SO MUCH Congressman Dold! Damn, I didn't log out and then back in under another fake name.

Walter White and RB: There ARE folks out there who appreciate Robert Dold's efforts as our Congressmen, even if you don't. Your knee jerk reactions against anything positive spoken about Mr. Dold make you both look a little childish on this issue.

Thank you SO MUCH Congressman Dold! Damn, I forgot to log in as Louis Atsaves again so I can piss and moan about Democrats in Springfield without offering any solutions.

Polls are tightening, according to the fraudulent messages the corrupt media has been providing. HAHAHAHAHA

People obviously have strong feelings about these issues. I remain grateful for your Op Ed, and for your support for the Health Workers Resolution, Congressman. It is a difficult job with people attacking you, no matter what you do. I hope you will continue to support efforts to save the lives of children in the Third World, and in the U.S. too.

For those commenters who supporting both global health related foreign aid funding and the Affordable Health Care Act, I encourage you to take action on both. We at RESULTS, have lobbied extensively on both of issues and many others that help people living in poverty. We are a non-partisan, anti-poverty lobbying organization made largely of everyday volunteers. Our requests asking the Congressman to sign onto this resolution are the same actions that led Rep. Jan Schakowksy (D-9th) to sign onto the same bill. Poverty and childhood survival are non-partisan issues. We believe it is appropriate to praise the action of any sitting senator or representative for speaking out for people in need in our country or around the world.

This Resolution is the first step in recognizing that everyone needs and deserves basic healthcare. I had a baby die in my arms as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger because there was no basic healthcare for miles. Next step it to ensure that everyone, here and abroad, has access to the most basic services needed for life.

Am really excited by Congressman Robert Dold courage to co-sponsored the Frontline Health Workers Resolution (H.Res. 734). This means a lot to the hard to reach, marginalized and unreached populations of developed countries. The
World Health Organization estimates a shortage of at least one million frontline health workers, particularly in Africa and parts of Asia. Millions more existing health workers could save millions lives if they well trained and supported. Am sure this will stimulate greater investments in frontline health workers in the developing world to save more lives and foster healthier communities! Kudos Congressman Robert and we need more Roberts in the world!

Walter, your comments would be fun to read if they weren't so repetitious. If you want to continue the fiscal train wreck that is Springfield, Illinois, continue voting for Democrats who have derailed that train. It's that simple. You want continuing failure, vote for it! The Democrats you elect will blindly follow the wishes of Michael Madigan and/or Senator Cullerton, both of whom are responsible for the wreckage. Madigan in particular has been at it for over 40 years?

Don't criticize the rest of us who are fed up and are demanding something better. And don't demand that we vote for Brad Schneider, who is on record as promising to completely toe the Democratic party line in place of someone who doesn't completely toe the his party line.

President Obama demanded that the Bush Tax Cut issue be dealt with after the election along with the massive federal spending cuts we will be facing. Both kick in on 1/1/13. President Obama puts his reelection ahead of the fiscal catastrophe facing our nation according to Bob Woodward of the Washington Post. You know, the fellow who exposed Watergate back in the day.

And I love VP Biden's admission that the middle class has taken a beating the last four years. The last four years that Obama and Biden have been holding office! You voting for more of that too?

But then, there is no intelligence test for voters who demand more of the same these days!

Dold isn't as photogenic as Cantor Boehner and Romney. I wonder how much Romney's haircuts cost? I think Dold would look better without the mousy brown hair. What about some red highlights? Yep, when I first saw this I thought that it would be another vote for show, not for go. Righty-O!

Congressman Dold,
PBS just broadcast an amazing documentary called "Half The Sky:Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide" on Oct 1 & 2. It was very powerful to hear Dr. Edna Adan talking about a maternity hospital she helped build in Somaliland (which has a very high maternal & infant mortality rate) & how she is training young women to be midwives & healthcare workers, so that they can go out into all of the different areas of that country and HELP women in the community. THIS kind of work, which directly impacts women & children in some of the poorest parts of the world, is exactly what our foreign aid dollars support. Thank you again for ensuring that they will have a future!

Glad to see that this piece got picked up and reposted by the Frontline Health Workers Coalition. http://frontlinehealthworkers.org/supporting-the-worlds-frontline-health-workers/