Subject:  I wrote an MAI letter to Congress (fwd)
Date:     Sun, 22 Feb 1998 085648 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" <rbeavers@llion.org>
To:       emfguru@hotmail.com
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 20:21:42 -0600
From: "Marjorie A. Lundquist" 
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: I wrote an MIA letter to Congress

 Roy, I followed my own advice, and wrote a letter to the Subcommittee that
is holding the hearing next week on the MIA issue.  I did it on a word
pro- cessor, so cannot send it to you by e-mail (it is over 5 pages long,
and I am not going to re-key it, as it took 2 hours to type the original).
But if you want a copy, send me your mailing address, and I will mail you
a copy.  Then you can post a comment on it, if you wish, and quote
excerpts from it.
 I got VERY bold, and said I would be very happy if my letter were read
aloud at the hearing, so that those who were scheduled to testify would
have an opportunity to comment on it when THEY testified.  I shall be very
much interested to find out if the chairwoman "takes my bait" and reads my
letter--or has someone else read it.  If so, it will mean I have done an
"end run" around the people who are scheduled to testify--who are probably
all industry representatives--and THAT would be no small accomplishment!
 It all hinges on the character of the chairwoman, and her willingness to
do something that might set a precedent.  Right now, it's a blind shot in
the dark, though a few telephone calls from me to her office, and the sub-
committee office, on Monday would undoubtedly help.  In fact, the more
phone calls to both offices that are received from ordinary citizens on
this issue, the better.  If those testifying ARE all from industry, then
this is one of those "stacked" hearings, where all the people testify on
one side of an issue, and nobody testifies on the other side.
 It only takes about half a dozen ordinary citizens protesting this sort
of thing to unsettle a subcommittee chair(wo)man.  (I know, because I was
involved in just this sort of thing earlier this year, engineered by
Cathy Bergman of the EMR Alliance; we managed to halt a biased Congress-
sional subcommittee hearing altogether!)
--which would not be bad at all, if it is going to be as biased as I sus-
pect! -- Marjorie



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