This number doesn't work but he has a toll free number in Osceola and the House won't open again until Tuesday, so there is still plenty of time to contact him, Peggy Murdock At 06:21 PM 10/10/2001 -0700, you wrote: >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 >[log in to unmask] > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - >For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT >to [log in to unmask] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - For SC email list T-and-C, send: GET TERMS-AND-CONDITIONS.CURRENT to [log in to unmask]