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We propose to obtain the infrared spectral energy distributions of 15 gamma-ray blazars from the Second EGRET Catalog which are not included in the Guaranteed or approved Open Time proposals. This increases the size of a statistically complete sample from 26 to 41 objects. The infrared emission in blazars is dominated by highly beamed synchrotron radiation from a relativistic jet. Photons from the peak of the synchrotron energy output (in the infrared for most high-luminosity blazars) or from an external radiation field are inverse-Compton scattered to gamma-ray energies by the synchrotron-emitting electrons. The infrared spectral shape is vital to constraining models of the broad-band emission in this objects by characterizing the physical parameters of the relativistic charged particles which do the scattering.