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ACTFORCHANGE ACTIVISM UPDATE: November 13, 2002 You are receiving this newsletter because you have previously taken action on ActForChange in support of progressive values. IN THIS BULLETIN:
Senator Daschle — Fight Back and Filibuster Often Control of
the Senate will change in January, with reproductive rights, environmental
protection, the exercise of war powers, limiting corporate corruption and
civil liberties taking the biggest hits. While the last year has seen
Senate Democrats block the worst proposed legislation, essentially nothing
good has passed. But now the special interests that funded the most
expensive midterm election in history want their payback, and it will be
deeply damaging. It is past time for Senate liberals to get a backbone. Senate rules prevent passage of essentially any legislation unless at least 60 senators vote in favor. This means that a determined minority, one willing to use the rules and to filibuster, can block the worst judicial appointments, drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge and the permanent elimination of the estate tax. Such senators will come under ferocious attack from the editorial pages of the mainstream press, from the pundits of the right and their colleagues in the Senate. The only chance is if they hear overwhelmingly from the public that this is the right thing to do. Such senators need leadership. Contact Senate Majority leader Thomas Daschle and urge him to stand up to the President’s extreme agenda.
There are a handful of moderate Republicans who just might be persuaded to join Senator Jeffords in an act of conscience by leaving the Republican Party. Senators Chafee of Rhode Island, Specter of Pennsylvania and Snowe of Maine are all seriously out of step with the Trent Lotts of the Senate. They need to know that they have a choice to make.
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