The Stamp Out Breast Cancer stamp was issued
On Jul. 29, 1998, the Stamp Out Breast Cancer stamp was issued. The driving force behind the creation of the Stamp was Dr. Ernie Bodai, a Permanente surgeon and director of the Breast Cancer Survivorship Clinic at Kaiser Permanente, in Sacramento, California. Dr. Bodai successfully lobbied Congress and the Act, sponsored by Representatives Vic Fazio (D-CA) and Susan Molinari (R-NY). passed the House (422-3), and the companion version sponsored by Senators Feinstein (D-CA), Alfonse DメAmato (R-NY), and Lauch Faircloth (R-NC), and passed unanimously in the Senate.
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President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law (PL 105-41) on August 13, 1997.
The bill established a special alternative rate of postage up to 25% higher than a regular first-class stamp. Seventy percent of the profits from the sale of the stamp would go to NIH to fund breast cancer research; the remaining 30% would go toward U.S. Department of Defense breast cancer research.
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Source: Smithsonian
Credit: Breast Cancer Stamp, courtesy U.S. Postal Service.