Subject: Legislative (FEDERAL) Alert!! (Raunio).
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 183417 -0600
From: Roy Beavers
To: guru
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.......From EMF-L........
I, too, believe that this legislation is badly needed...... But, in and of
itself,
I do not think it will be enough....... Darlene seems to have the right
spirit........guru.......
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Subject: Legislative (FEDERAL) Alert!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:57:56 -0600
From: Darlene Raunio
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
Dear Friends ....
We are all together waging a war against the health hazards from the current
type of electrical systems throughout the U.S. and elsewhere. By now, all of us
are (unfortunately) aware that it has not only been a battle with the government
"agencies", the utilities but also with our "elected" legislative
representatives which are inherently intertwined as Corporate Lackies! It is
the corporations that are running our country via lobbying efforts ($$$$$) of a
magnitude that is incomprehensible to the rest of us.
It is up to ALL OF US to pass out this information to everyone that you know.
write, call, e-mail, fax, pony express ... whatever it takes to get the messages
out to our Federal Representatives TODAY to vote "FOR" Senate Bill 27 (S-27) in
the passage of Campaign Finance Reform so as to limit the corporations'
"investments" in our state representatives!
I've copied below, including the printed version of the Public Citizens
Opinions, of how beneficial this will be to the peoples vs corporations.
This LOOKS LIKE this Legislation (S-27) is due to come up for a VOTE on either
........
MONDAY, March 19th or MONDAY, March 26th!!!!
HURRY UP and contact your representatives IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Public Citizen's Position on Campaign Finance Reform:
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/position.html
Our Position on Campaign Finance Reform
The current system of financing federal election campaigns makes a mockery of
democracy. Unquestionably money makes a significant difference in who gets
elected: in the 2000 elections Senate winners spent about twice as much as their
challengers and House winners spent over two-and-a-half times as much.
Furthermore, the overwhelming majority of contributions come from large
($1,000+) individual donors, Political Action Committees and special interests.
More importantly, it means that the legislative agenda is largely shaped by
monied special interests.
In recent elections there have been huge increases in fund-raising, particularly
so-called "soft money"-- the unlimited contributions of corporations, labor
unions, and wealthy individuals to political parties. Furthermore,
partisan-oriented "independent groups" have spent increasing sums on phony
"issue ads" that are really campaign ads designed to evade the contribution
limitations and disclosure requirements for campaign ads.
Public Citizen has long been committed to bringing about comprehensive campaign
finance reform. The best and most comprehensive reform is voluntary public
financing of all federal elections where candidates have strong incentives to
replace private money with public funding. However, since public financing has
no chance of passage in the current Congress, we have played a leading role in
pushing for the best incremental reform bills to limit the influence of wealthy
special interests. Our top legislative priority is to pass the McCain-Feingold
bill (S. 27) in the Senate and the Shays-Meehan bill (H.R. 380) in the House.
Both would ban soft money and regulate phony issue ads.
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Public Citizen's Congress Watch - Key Provisions of the McCain-Feingold-Cochran
Bill S-27:
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/mcfnkeyprovisions.htm
Public Citizen's Analysis of Senate Bill S-27
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/mccfeincochanalysisofbill.htm
Sen. Feingold's Press Release
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/01/01/2001112335.html
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=senate_calendar&docid=sc-1
S. 27
2.--Ordered, That on either Monday, March 19, 2001, or Monday, March 26, 2001,
at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, after consultation with the
Democratic Leader, the Rules and Administration Committee be immediately
discharged from consideration of S. 27, a bill to amend the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform, as introduced, and
that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. Ordered further, That
following the reporting of S. 27 by the Clerk, the bill become the pending
business to the exclusion of all other business, except for a motion to
temporarily postpone consideration of the pending legislation made by the
Republican Leader, following approval of the Democratic Leader; and that no call
for the regular order serve to displace this item, except one made by the
Republican Leader, after approval of the Democratic Leader. Ordered further,
That when a first degree amendment is offered, there be up to 3 hours for debate
only, with the time to be evenly divided in the usual form, after which a motion
to table may be made; that if a motion to table fails, the amendment then be
fully debatable and amendable; that if a motion to table is not made at the
expiration of the 3 hours, a vote occur on the amendment, without any
intervening action, motion, or debate, provided that no points of order be
considered as having been waived by this agreement. (Feb. 6, 2001.)
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.......From EMF-L........
I, too, believe that this legislation is badly needed...... But,
in and of itself,
I do not think it will be enough....... Darlene seems to have
the right
spirit........guru.......
-------- Original Message --------
| Subject: |
Legislative (FEDERAL) Alert!!!!!! |
| Date: |
Sun, 11 Mar 2001 16:57:56 -0600 |
| From: |
Darlene Raunio <darvr@newnorth.net> |
| To: |
(Recipient list suppressed) |
Dear Friends ....
We are all together waging a war against the health hazards from the
current type of electrical systems throughout the U.S. and elsewhere.
By now, all of us are (unfortunately) aware that it has not only been a
battle with the government "agencies", the utilities but also with our
"elected" legislative representatives which are inherently intertwined
as Corporate Lackies! It is the corporations that are running our
country via lobbying efforts ($$$$$) of a magnitude that is incomprehensible
to the rest of us.
It is up to ALL OF US to pass out this information to everyone that
you know.
write, call, e-mail, fax, pony express
... whatever it takes to get the messages out to our Federal Representatives
TODAY
to vote
"FOR" Senate
Bill 27 (S-27) in the passage of Campaign Finance Reform so
as to limit the corporations' "investments" in our state representatives!
I've copied below, including the printed version of the Public Citizens
Opinions, of how beneficial this will be to the peoples vs corporations.
This LOOKS LIKE this Legislation (S-27) is due to come up for a VOTE
on either ........
MONDAY, March 19th or MONDAY, March 26th!!!!
HURRY UP and contact your representatives IMMEDIATELY!!!!
Public Citizen's Position on Campaign Finance Reform:
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/position.html
Our
Position on Campaign Finance Reform
The current system of financing
federal election campaigns makes a mockery of democracy. Unquestionably
money makes a significant difference in who gets elected: in the 2000 elections
Senate winners spent about twice as much as their challengers and House
winners spent over two-and-a-half times as much. Furthermore, the overwhelming
majority of contributions come from large ($1,000+) individual donors,
Political Action Committees and special interests. More importantly, it
means that the legislative agenda is largely shaped by monied special interests.
In recent elections there have
been huge increases in fund-raising, particularly so-called "soft money"--
the unlimited contributions of corporations, labor unions, and wealthy
individuals to political parties. Furthermore, partisan-oriented "independent
groups" have spent increasing sums on phony "issue ads" that are really
campaign ads designed to evade the contribution limitations and disclosure
requirements for campaign ads.
Public Citizen has long been committed
to bringing about comprehensive campaign finance reform. The best and most
comprehensive reform is voluntary public financing of all federal elections
where candidates have strong incentives to replace private money with public
funding. However, since public financing has no chance of passage in the
current Congress, we have played a leading role in pushing for the best
incremental reform bills to limit the influence of wealthy special interests.
Our top legislative priority is to pass the McCain-Feingold bill (S. 27)
in the Senate and the Shays-Meehan bill (H.R. 380) in the House. Both would
ban soft money and regulate phony issue ads.
Public Citizen's Congress Watch - Key Provisions of the McCain-Feingold-Cochran
Bill S-27:
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/mcfnkeyprovisions.htm
Public Citizen's Analysis of Senate Bill S-27
http://www.citizen.org/congress/reform/mccfeincochanalysisofbill.htm
Sen. Feingold's Press Release
http://feingold.senate.gov/~feingold/releases/01/01/2001112335.html
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=senate_calendar&docid=sc-1
S. 27
2.--Ordered, That on either Monday, March 19, 2001, or Monday, March 26,
2001, at a time to be determined by the Majority Leader, after consultation
with the Democratic Leader, the Rules and Administration Committee be immediately
discharged from consideration of S. 27, a bill to amend the Federal Election
Campaign Act of 1971 to provide bipartisan campaign reform, as introduced,
and that the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. Ordered further,
That following the reporting of S. 27 by the Clerk, the bill become the
pending business to the exclusion of all other business, except for a motion
to temporarily postpone consideration of the pending legislation made by
the Republican Leader, following approval of the Democratic Leader; and
that no call for the regular order serve to displace this item, except
one made by the Republican Leader, after approval of the Democratic Leader.
Ordered further, That when a first degree amendment is offered, there be
up to 3 hours for debate only, with the time to be evenly divided in the
usual form, after which a motion to table may be made; that if a motion
to table fails, the amendment then be fully debatable and amendable; that
if a motion to table is not made at the expiration of the 3 hours, a vote
occur on the amendment, without any intervening action, motion, or debate,
provided that no points of order be considered as having been waived by
this agreement. (Feb. 6, 2001.)
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