[BCNnet] Fwd: REP America Action Alert: sneaky Arctic Refuge vote

[Donald R Dann]

BCN friends - 

Please heed the following which I am forwarding from Martha Marks. 
Over 180 species of birds, many of which pass through Illinois are
threatened by opening the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling.  This vote may
take place tomorrow and we urgently need to get calls to Peter
Fitzgerald.

Donald  

Donald R. Dann
Highland Park/Lake Cty.



--- MarREP@aol.com wrote:
> From: MarREP@aol.com
> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:53:49 EST
> Subject: REP America Action Alert: sneaky Arctic Refuge vote
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> 
> Fellow REPs,
> 
> On Monday, Dec. 3, there will be yet another underhanded attempt to
> open the 
> Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil/gas drilling. We must try to
> stop it!
> 
> Here's what is in the works...
> 
> The US Senate has scheduled a vote late Monday on the "Railroad
> Retirement 
> Act," which sounds like a perfectly innocent bill, and is. However,
> the same 
> senators who have repeatedly tried to attach the House's Energy Bill
> (HR 4, 
> which *mandates* drilling in the Arctic Refuge) to previous Senate
> bills are 
> going to make another attempt on Monday, and this one is a serious
> threat... 
> because they are being very clever.
> 
> Senators Murkowski (AK), Lott (MS) and Brownback (KS) have combined
> two 
> totally unrelated issues -- a moratorium on human cloning and HR 4,
> with its 
> mandate for Arctic drilling -- into a *single* rider, which they plan
> to 
> attach to the Railroad Retirement Act. (Neither issue has anything to
> do with 
> railroad retirement, but that's the way games are played in
> Washington. When 
> one side can't get its way in an open and fair vote, they try
> underhanded 
> means like this.)
> 
> Here's the anticipated legal maneuvering... At 5:00 p.m. EST on
> Monday, the 
> Senate will vote to limit debate on an amendment to the Railroad
> Retirement 
> Act comprised of H.R. 4 and a moratorium on human cloning. A cloture
> motion 
> to end debate and permit consideration of the amendment will require
> 60 votes 
> to pass.  We need at least 41 senators voting NO to stop it.
> 
> Unfortunately, having the popular human cloning moratorium included
> in the 
> rider will make it easier for senators to vote for the unpopular
> Arctic 
> Refuge drilling plan. And that, of course, is exactly why Murkowski,
> Lott & 
> Brownback think it's such a great idea to combine the two into one
> "rider."
> 
> We need our Senators to get swamped with messages from their
> constituents 
> telling them to **kill** the Lott / Murkowski / Brownback amendment
> and to 
> protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This takes only a few
> minutes 
> and can really make a huge difference!
> 
> 
> Here's how to let your senators know you want the Refuge protected...
> 
> You don't have to wait until Monday morning. The US Capitol
> Switchboard is 
> open 24 hours - all weekend. **Please call** and leave a voice
> message for 
> **both** of your Senators, whether they are Republicans or Democrats.
>  (Email 
> is not as good, since many senators don't have it... and even if they
> do it's 
> easy for them to ignore email. When constituents actually call their
> offices, 
> they tend to listen better!)
> 
> Call the Capitol Switchboard: at (202) 224-3121 and ask for your
> Senator by 
> name. (If you're not sure who that is, send me an email back!)  
> 
> Whether you reach a receptionist (on Monday) or voice mail (over the 
> weekend), you'll want to say the same things...
> 
> 1. Tell them your full name and the town you live in. 
> 2. Tell them you're calling about a vote on Monday.
> 3. Tell them to please **vote NO on the cloture motion to permit 
> consideration of the the Lott / Murkowski / Brownback amendment to
> the 
> Railroad Retirement Act.**  
> 
> All your calls to the Capitol will be important, but it's especially
> urgent 
> if you live in one of the following states with senators who are
> considered 
> swing votes on this issue.  Please urge them to *vote NO on cloture.*
> 
> ARIZONA - Senator John McCain
> ARKANSAS - Senator Blanche Lincoln
> DELAWARE - Senator Tom Carper
> GEORGIA - Senators Max Cleland and Zell Miller
> ILLINOIS - Senator Peter Fitzgerald
> INDIANA - Senators Evan Bayh and Richard Lugar
> MAINE - Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe
> MONTANA - Senator Max Baucus
> NEBRASKA - Senator Ben Nelson
> NEW HAMPSHIRE - Senator Bob Smith
> OHIO - Senator Mike DeWine
> OREGON - Senator Gordon Smith
> PENNSYLVANIA - Senator Arlen Specter
> 
> Even if you have called your senators about the Arctic Refuge before,
> please 
> do so again. They are under tremendous pressure from oil-industry
> lobbyists, 
> and they may only pay attention to the latest round of calls they
> receive on 
> this specific legislative end-run.
> 
> Thanks folks, for making yet another firm stand in favor of our 
> increasingly-threatened natural heritage.
> 
> Martha
> 
> Martha Marks, Ph.D.; President
> REP America (Republicans for Environmental Protection)
> P. O. Box 7073
> Deerfield, IL 60015
> 847-940-0320
> martha@repamerica.org   OR  MarREP@aol.com
> www.rep.org   OR   www.repamerica.org


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