Category Archives: Action Alerts
ACTION ALERT – March 13, 2010
Alert! Tell Congressmen to vote NO
on Federal Health Care
They haven’t seen the bill they’re expected to pass. So, tell them,
Voting in IGNORANCE is not bliss, it’s IRRESPONSIBLE!
January 8th ALERT
Act, While Congress is in Recess for Two Weeks
The Government Health Care Bill Can Be Defeated
H.R. 3590 In A Nutshell: “Cash for Cloture” Deals Bought Critical Senate Votes
One version of the health care bill passed the House. Another version passed the Senate. Both are horrible. Both are unacceptable. Both would destroy the world’s best health care system. Both over-tax the population and put one-sixth of the U.S. economy under federal control.
Normally, both bills would go to a conference committee, where a compromise bill would be finalized. However, there’s nothing normal about this plan or its railroaded passage.
Pelosi and Reid are skipping the normal conference committee process and are working behind closed doors to make both bills into one image – their own. Representatives and senators outside the “in-crowd” don’t know what’s in the bill and unrest in Congress is escalating.
Republican representatives and senators, as well as some Democrats, have consistently opposed the entire concept of socialized health care and, now, unhappy over-burdened governors are complaining about “sweetheart deals” several hold-out senators got for agreeing to vote YES.
Now, more Democrats are squabbling over the Senate’s “cash for cloture” shenanigans and Republican Schwarzenegger has had enough, too. Although he’s a Republican, Governor Schwarzenegger supported the Democrat health care reform … until senators from Nebraska, Louisiana and other states got huge perks for their senator’s YES vote. Schwarzenegger said, among other things, “Health care reform … has become a trough of bribes, deals and loopholes…. You’ve heard of the bridge to nowhere…. This is health care to nowhere….”
This week, addressing the Downtown Kiwanis Club meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas Democrat Senator Blanche Lincoln expressed dismay that her state got the “short end of the [sweetheart deal] stick”. She said, “The people of Arkansas did not send me to Washington to be a horse trader. They sent me there to work hard to get good policy.” So, she wants the Nelson Medicaid provision dropped from any House/Senate compromise bill.
ACTION – 1. Attend local town hall meetings at every opportunity.
2. Call your (a) U.S. Congressman and (b) Senator Chambliss and Senator Isakson.
3. Call often during this recess – at least once in D.C. and at least once in their local office.
Call toll-free in D.C., 1 877 851-6437 and ask for their office.
Local libraries can give you their local office numbers. Please call NOW and OFTEN.
This can be stopped if Congress gets enough pressure from constituents.
URGENT URGENT ALERT — Dec. 19th
Health Care Vote Set
The “secret deal” Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) has worked on for weeks was just released Saturday morning, December 19th.
Weekend Action Absolutely Necessary!
The CLOTURE VOTE on the motion to end debate IS SET FOR
1 a.m. very late Sunday (12-20-09) night/very early Monday morning.
So, weekend calls are imperative!
If you wait until Monday morning when the sun rises, it will be too late!
Senator Nelson, reportedly, caved in and accepted watered down language on abortion-funding to give Reid the 60th vote needed to bring the health care fiasco closer to passage.
The bill continues to …
>Cost almost $1 trillion $871 billion, the CBO’s modest estimate that does not factor in the full ten years after it goes into effect,
>Cut Medicare by hundreds of billions of dollars,
>Raise and impose a vast array of new taxes on the American people,
>Allow for federal funding of abortion,
>Retain the CLASS Act (which the Democrat Chairman of the Budget Committee describes as nothing more than a “Ponzi Scheme”),
>Massively expand Medicaid, giving special treatment to a select few states so taxpayers in VA, AR, and OH will have to pay higher taxes to subsidize the Medicaid program of a favored few, such as NE, MA, and VT.
This cloture vote is the only vote that counts now. If they get 60 cloture votes, the bill will be a shoo-in to get the simple majority needed for final passage. There will be no conference committee. If this bill passes the Senate, Reid will take it to Nancy Pelosi and tell her to have the House vote on it now and do not allow any amendments. No one will have time to read it and no one will know what’s in it before they vote. If this goes as Reid and Pelosi plan, the health care bill will be on the president’s desk before the New Year.
Ask Senators Chambliss & Isakson
to VOTE NO on Health Care.
PLEASE CALL at least once this weekend
& share this alert!
Senator Saxby Chambliss, Toll-free in D.C., 1 877 851-6437 (Ask for his office.)
Savannah, 912 232-3657 Augusta, 706 738-0302 Macon, 478 741-1417
Atlanta, 770 763-9090 Moultrie, 229 985-2112 D.C.,202 224-3521
Senator Johnny Isakson, Toll-free in D.C., 1 877 851-6437 (Ask for his office.)
Atlanta, 770 661-0999 Washington, D.C., 202 224-3643