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Join the National Call-In Day on February 15,

This is the first date of committee discussion on the president's budgets.

The administration's budget states that drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will generate over $7 billion.

The more Congress hears from us Now, early in the session, the better to show them that even after a decisive victory for protecting the Refuge last session we did not go away, we are still watching.

thank you,

Lois Norrgard
Regional Organizer
Alaska Coalition
10368 Columbus Circle
Bloomington MN 55420
ph/fx: 952.881-7282
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Please take action to prevent another year of attacks to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge!

National Call in Day February 15th - Call your Senator and Representative.

Despite President Bush's announcement in last week's State of the Union address that “America is addicted to oil,” he is once again turning to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in hopes of a quick fix to our energy challenges. As we begin a new year, the Bush administration should remember the lessons we learned last year: that bending the rules to attach controversial issues, like Arctic drilling, to unrelated budget bills is unacceptable and unethical. This lesson was clearly illustrated when a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats in the House forced powerful congressional leaders to remove Arctic drilling from the budget.

On February 15th, the House and Senate will meet in committee to discuss the budget for the first time. They will have an opportunity to incorporate last year's lesson by disregarding Bush's proposal and creating a budget that DOES NOT include Arctic drilling provisions. However, the only way to ensure that Congress does the right thing is to let them know between now and then that we are counting on them to keep Arctic out of the budget.

Please take action today to prevent another year of pointless debate and an endless number of Arctic budget votes. Tell your members it is time to put the Arctic debate behind us and move on to real, clean energy solutions.

CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION USING OUR CALL ALERT-- here you will find more talking points and local phone numbers for your members. (here is the link to the call alert: http://capwiz.com/awc/callalert/index.tt?alertid=8458941&type=CO)

In order for us to be successful, we need to receive as much feedback from the members as possible. So once you've made your call please be sure to fill out the report form at the end of the action alert and let us know what the member or their staff said.

Thank you for your continued support in protecting wild Alaska!