Posted by Jane Clark

Stop Anti-Environmental Fast-Track Bill
Urgent Action Alert

Call Representative Boswell Thursday -- Dial 1-800-393-1082
(courtesy of the AFL-CIO).

Responsible Trade Program

House Ways and Means Committee Chair Bill Thomas (R-CA) is trying to use the
crisis created by terrorist attacks on our country to ram through Congress a
divisive, environmentally-destructive fast-track trade bill (HR 3005).
Based on his schedule, the House could vote as soon as the week of Oct. 15.

Thomas's fast-track bill is not the compromise on the environment that he
claims.  It would expand controversial "investor" rules that have empowered
foreign corporations to sue over our environmental laws.  And it denies
Congress an effective decision-making role in shaping future trade deals
that could undercut our environmental laws.

This is not the time for Congress to consider complicated trade policies
that will affect our quality of life and democratic institutions for years
to come.  The Sierra Club is urging members of the US House of
Representatives to oppose the Thomas fast track bill if it comes up for a
vote.

Rep. Leonard Boswell (IA03) is still in the "undecided" column on this
vote.

Please call his office to try again to persuade him that now is not the time
for deciding such a controversial issue.

Call Representative Boswell Thursday -- Dial 1-800-393-1082
(courtesy of the AFL-CIO).

For more information, see www.sierraclub.org/trade or contact
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