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Congress is cutting family values while loading up on stimulus pork
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February 2009

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Dear Friends,

Since President Obama's inauguration, liberals in Congress are emboldened to pass legislation that eviscerates family values.

Congress is now poised to take action on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and the economic stimulus package, and we need your help now!

1. SCHIP: The Senate is now debating the SCHIP bill. This health care legislation is a stepping stone for universal government health care. SCHIP was originally created in 1997 as a program to provide health insurance for children whose families are low-income (at 200% of poverty) but not poor enough to qualify for Medicaid. SCHIP was not intended to be a replacement for private health insurance for the working poor, but assistance towards it. It was not a program for families in middle- or high-income groups.

The Senate bill could allow children in families making $65,000 to enroll in government funded health insurance and to drop their private insurance. This bill simply does not offer the type of assistance that truly helps American families; instead it creates permanent entitlement programs. Expanding an extravagantly expensive health insurance program is not a solution that ultimately strengthens American families.

Please call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose SCHIP. Please ask your Senator to send President Obama a bill that conforms to the original intent of the SCHIP program.

2. The Economic Stimulus Package: Congress is preparing to vote on an $825 billion stimulus package this week, and the San Francisco liberals led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) have loaded this bill up with wasteful spending, including billions of dollars for contraceptives and the abortion industry, while eliminating abstinence education funding.

Other spending in this stimulus includes: $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts, $200 million for the National Mall - including $21 million for sod - and up to $145 billion in so-called emergency education spending, more than twice the entire current discretionary budget for the U.S. Department of Education.

Pelosi bills this package as an economic stimulus, but only seven percent of the legislation actually goes towards infrastructure. The rest is a gift to liberal groups for the Democrats' election successes.

Please call your Representatives and Senators at 202-224-3121 and ask them to oppose the economic stimulus package. The total cost of this stimulus package is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government!

Sincerely,

Wendy Wright
President