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Action Needed This Memorial Day Recess!
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May 2008

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Dear Friends,

Your Senators and Representatives are home in their districts this week. Please take this opportunity to meet with your legislators to address several "hot" legislative items:

1. Last week, the Senate voted 75-22 on an emergency war funding bill which included a contentious provision to make it cheaper and easier for Planned Parenthood to distribute controversial drugs including Plan B which can act as an abortifacient. The liberal House Leadership will schedule a House vote on this bill when they return next week. Please call or visit your Representative while he/she is home in the district and urge them to remove the pernicious provision to line Planned Parenthood's coffers. Please ask them to send President Bush a war funding bill that provides monies solely for our military.

2. Senator Carl Levin (D-Michigan) may try an underhanded way to push the homosexual agenda into a bill aimed at protecting our national sovereignty. There is considerable evidence that Senator Levin plans to attach a "hate crimes" amendment to the Defense Authorization that is likely to be considered by the Senate after the Memorial Day recess in the next couple of weeks.

   This "hate crimes" amendment, like the controversial Planned Parenthood provision, is simply a tactic employed by the liberal Democrat leadership to force President Bush to veto legislation that is crucial to our military. Please call or visit your Senators while they are home in their states and ask them to oppose a "hate crimes" amendment to the Defense Authorization bill.

3. Recently, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held a hearing on abstinence education titled "Domestic Abstinence-Only Programs: Assessing the Evidence." This hearing was overwhelmingly stacked with witnesses against abstinence education. On the main panel, which included seven witnesses, only one had a pro-abstinence message.

   The liberal Democratic leadership in the House is seeking to use this hearing as a springboard to eliminate abstinence education funding. Instead of fully reauthorizing Title V Abstinence Education by the June 30 deadline, these liberals want to send block grants to the states so that the states can determine how they will use the funds. They believe the majority of states will chose comprehensive sex education. Please call or visit your Representative and Senators while they are in the districts and ask them to fully reauthorize Title V with Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA) before the June 30 deadline.

4. The obstruction of President Bush's judicial nominees continues in the U.S. Senate. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) recognized back in April that the Democratic leadership needed "to make more progress on" circuit court nominations, and he promised to confirmed three circuit court nominees by the Memorial Day recess. Well, Memorial Day has come and gone, and Sen. Reid and the Democratic Leadership confirmed only one nominee before the Senate recess. Please meet with your Senators while they are home in their states and ask them to do everything in their power to confirm President Bush's judicial nominees.

To find out who your Members of Congress are, please click here. That link will also provide their contact information including their district offices and phone numbers.

Sincerely,

Wendy Wright
President

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