TAKE ACTION TODAY: STOP OBAMACARE

1) Contact the Senate Finance Committee Members via phone/fax/email. Tell them NO Government-run healthcare! Exert extra pressure on Republican members (especially Senator Snowe) and remind them NO compromise… NO healthcare negotiations… absolutely NO form of government health care!

DEMOCRAT SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Max Baucus (MT-D) http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
- Jay Rockefeller (VA-D) http://rockefeller.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
- Kent Conrad (ND-D) http://conrad.senate.gov/contact/
- Jeff Bingaman (NM-D) http://bingaman.senate.gov/contact/
- John F. Kerry (MA-D) http://kerry.senate.gov/contact/office.cfm
- Blanche Lincoln (AR-D) http://lincoln.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
- Ron Wyden (OR-D) http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
- Charles E. Schumer (NY-D) http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/contact.cfm
- Debbie Stabenow (MI-D) http://stabenow.senate.gov/contact.htm
- Maria Cantwell (WA-D) http://cantwell.senate.gov/contact/
- Bill Nelson (FL-D) http://billnelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
- Robert Menendez (NJ-D) http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
- Tom Carper (DE-D) http://carper.senate.gov/

REPUBLICAN SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

- Chuck Grassley (IA-R) http://grassley.senate.gov/contact.cfm
- Orrin G. Hatch (UT-R) http://hatch.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Offices.Home
- Olympia Snowe (ME-R) http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactSenatorSnowe.DistrictOffices
- Jon Kyl (AZ-R) http://kyl.senate.gov/
- Jim Bunning (KY-R) http://bunning.senate.gov/public/
- Mike Crapo (ID-R) http://crapo.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm
- Pat Roberts (KS-R) http://roberts.senate.gov/public/
- John Ensign (NV-R) http://ensign.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
- Mike Enzi (WY-R) http://enzi.senate.gov/public/
- John Cornyn (TX-R) http://cornyn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home

2) Next, contact your 2 US Senators with same message. Every Senator needs to hear from America now! Use this website for quick contact information: http://www.congressmerge.com/onlinedb/index.htm

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EXACTLY WHY DO I NEED TO CONTACT SENATORS TODAY? READ ON...

- Senate’s 4-Step plan to ram government health care into our lives "Passing a Shell of A Bill:" http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/22/passing-a-shell-of-a-bill-how-congress-plans-to-ram-through-health-care-reform/

- Senate Finance Committee Democrats vote against health care legislation transparency: "Read the Bill! What Bill?" http://blog.heritage.org/2009/09/23/read-the-bill-what-bill/

- One year in jail if you fail to meet health care Individual Mandate: "Ensign receives handwritten confirmation" http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Ensign_receives_handwritten_confirmation_.html?showall

- Transparency shenanigans are going on in the House of Representatives as well: "Dem Leadership Tries to Crush Petition on Allowing Americans to Read Bills Before Vote" http://republicanleader.house.gov/blog/?p=628

- Need clarification of health care terms? Read this: "Obamacare Translator Glossary" http://www.freedomworks.org/publications/freedomnotes-obamacare-translator
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AND PRAY... 

Prayer for our Nation’s Health Care Reform

Lord Jesus, you are the Divine Physician,
And the source of all life and health.

Guide our nation at this critical moment,
As our government seeks health care reforms.

Give our elected officials the humility to know
That they are servants, not masters.
Give them the wisdom to realize
That every life has equal value.
Give them the strength to resist the idea
That some lives can be sacrificed to save others
Or that killing the unborn is a part of health care.

Give your people the courage to speak up
And to hold public officials accountable for their actions.

Save us, Lord Jesus, from a culture of death,
And let every reform in our public policy
Be based on the reform of our hearts and minds
In the light of your Gospel,
For you are Lord forever and ever. Amen.


~ Via Fr. Frank Pavone at Priests for Life.

Action Alert: Senate Abortion Vote Tuesday - Call Key Senators

Members of the U.S. Senate Financial Services Committee will be voting NEXT TUESDAY on amendments to keep abortion coverage out of Sen. Max Baucus's (D-Mont.) health care bill. Sen. Baucus's health care bill explicitly includes abortion and would subsidize health plans that cover all elective abortions. Such subsidies for abortion goes well beyond the status quo of preventing federal funds either from paying for abortion or subsidizing plans that covers abortion as is prevented under current laws governing Medicaid, the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, and the State Children's Health Insurance Plan.

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has introduced several amendments that would prevent government funding for abortion and would protect current conscience laws for health workers. Please call these key Senators today and urge them to support Sen. Hatch's amendments to keep government funded abortions out of the Baucus bill:

• Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.): 202-224-5521
• Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.): 202-224-2441
• Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.): 202-224-2043
• Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.): 202-224-4843
• Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.): 202-224-5274
• Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine): 202-224-5344

URGENT ACTION ALERT: Ask Senators to vote Yes on Hatch Amendment to fund abstinence education

Senator Hatch (R-UT) has introduced an amendment into the Senate health care reform bill to reinstate Title V Abstinence Education funding for FY2010. This amendment will be offered this week in the Senate Finance Committee. (The vote could be as early as Tuesday of this week)

Background

Title V state block grants for abstinence education expired June 30, 2009. Since then, 2 actions in the House have been taken related to this funding:

1. Rep. Lee Terry introduced an amendment in the House to reinstate Title V Abstinence Education Funding. It failed by only 3 votes in anti-abstinence Waxman's Energy & Commerce Committee earlier this year.

2. An amendment was successfully inserted in the House health care reform bill to transfer former Title V funds to "comprehensive" sex education block grants to states.


Recent research analysis demonstrates that school based abstinence education is more successful in positive behavior change than so-called "comprehensive" sex education.


Action Item
•Call your Senators immediately. Ask them to vote "yes" on the Hatch Amendment if they serve on the Finance Committee. Ask them to urge their colleagues to do the same.


• Make a personal call to your friends and colleagues asking them to immediately call their Senators as well if they serve on the Senate Finance Committee

The United States Capitol switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. A switchboard operator will connect you directly to your Senators' Offices.

Continue to encourage unique calls to your Senators until the Senate vote is taken.

What to Say To Your Congressional Member

I am calling to urge Senator [name] to stand with youth in our state by voting "yes" on Senator Hatch's amendment to continue Title V abstinence education funding to states. This amendment will be offered as a part of the Senate health care reform bill. Abstinence alleviates millions of dollars in health care costs related to teen sexual activity. Can we count on Senator [name] support of the Hatch Abstinence Education amendment? Thank you.

Members of the Senate Finance Committee

Democrats
MAX BAUCUS, MT
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ

THOMAS CARPER, DE


Republicans
CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
ORRIN G. HATCH, UT
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME
JON KYL, AZ
JIM BUNNING, KY
MIKE CRAPO, ID
PAT ROBERTS, KS
JOHN ENSIGN, NV
MIKE ENZI, WY
JOHN CORNYN, TX

~ Via Pam Stenzel.