Hi everybody,

It's yet another vote in the House on Arctic Refuge, expected on June 10.
.
Please encourage representatives to vote against drilling again.  See the
message
at the end of the text for additional comments to make.  High gas prices
make this urgent!
Phyllis Mains

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HOUSE TO HOLD VOTE ON DRILLING IN ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE!!

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is working to exploit the fears of high
gas
prices in order to once again vote on drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge sometime during the day of June 10.  The House has
already
passed a bill for drilling once in this session of Congress, but it was
rejected in the Senate.  DeLay has said his latest attempt is to prod the
Senate into action on the long stalled energy bill.

While it is unclear what impact, if any, this would have on the Senate,
the
Republican leadership wants to show that the House is doing something
about
the high gas prices.  The provision to drill for oil in the Arctic
National
Wildlife Refuge has been soundly rejected numerous times over the past
three
years by the Senate, and government reports show that it will have no
impact
at all on gas prices.

Despite widespread evidence that there is almost nothing that Congress
can
do to help lower gas prices in the short term, politicians are keeping
their
eyes on the November elections and ways they can appear to be solving the
problem of high gas prices.

Most of the American people agree that making cars more fuel efficient
and
punishing consumer-gouging oil companies is the best ways to deal with
the
high gas prices.  Yet the proposals being floated by the House to address
the problem deal almost exclusively with more drilling in some form or
another, showing how out of touch the Republican leadership in the House
is
with the American public.

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESS MEMBERS AND GIVE THEM THE
FOLLOWING
MESSAGE:

THE HOUSE LEADERSHIP IS ENGAGED IN A POLITICAL PLOY TO EXPLOIT THE FEAR
OF
HIGH GAS PRICES IN ORDER TO DRILL IN THE ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
PLEASE OPPOSE ANY LEGISLATION THAT ALLOWS OIL AND GAS DRILLING IN THE
ARCTIC
NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.

CALL THE CAPITAL SWITCHBOARD AT 1-800-839-5276 AND ASK TO BE BE CONNECTED
WITH THE OFFICE OF YOUR SENATOR / REPRESENTATIVE.
(To find out who your Representative is, go to:
http://capwiz.com/awc/dbq/officials/).

Send an email to Congress at
http://capwiz.com/awc/issues/alert/?alertid=2175191.

Please pass this alert on to family and friends and ask them to do the
same.
Thanks!



Erik DuMont
National Field Director
Alaska Wilderness League
122 C Street, NW, Suite 240
Washington, DC 20001
P: 202-544-5205
F: 202-544-5197
www.alaskawild.org

If you're not already a member, join the movement to protect Alaska's
wild
places.  Visit www.alaskawild.org and click on the bear!




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