Clip shows actress Elizabeth Taylor speaking to lawmakers and the press in Washington DC in March of 1990, asking lawmakers to increase the government’s funding for those suffering with AIDS. Taylor emphasizes that only “lots of money” is going to build centers, hospices, and care units to assist those with AIDS.

Taylor walks with Senator Barbara Boxer before a group of photographers.

Senators Edward "Ted" Kennedy and Orrin Hatch speak to the press about their proposal of allotting $600 million to the 13 states where care for those with AIDS is most needed. It mentioned that San Francisco is an area that's suffering most by the AIDS epidemic. Kennedy says that the proposal is about more than just money; it is about caring and reaching out to those who are in desperate need of help.

Taylor, standing at podium with about two dozen microphones, says the dark days of the AIDS crisis are ahead of us and that hundreds of thousands of lives hang in the balance, requiring us to approach the AIDS crisis as a true, national emergency.

US Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says the Bush administration appears to be ignoring the AIDS crisis, not confronting it. She says the federal government's AIDS budget is the worst she’s seen in at least the last five years, that the amount proposed is arbitrarily and unrealistically limited, and that the administration is going to idealogical extremes to eliminate programs that actually help people.

The voiceover states that 60% of AIDS cases are in just thirteen states and that getting more funding for this cause is going to be difficult -- even if all the stars, like Elizabeth Taylor, are on the side of the cause.