Urgent, Urgent, Urgent, House May Cave On LWCF. Call Now.
The Senate & House have been Deadlocked Over LWCF
Highway Bill Funds.
It looks like the House is beginning to cave.
That battle has now turned into funding a CARA like Trust
Fund. The Greens want to set a precedent for these funds so the LWCF gets over
$1 Billion dollars every year, automatically, off budget.
That will be the death of rural America.
*Action Items: (The LWCF is a huge issue that threatens
you).*
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-----1. Please forward this message out quickly to at
least 10 other people. Your whole list if possible.
-----2.. Call, fax and e-mail your Congressman. Deluge
him or her with calls to stop the LWCF Funding. Call any Congressman at (202)
225-3121. Focus especially on the Congressmen on the LWCF Highway Bill
Conference Committee and the House leadership listed below.
-----3. Call, fax and e-mail any Congressman or Senator
from your state who is on the Conference Committee.
-----4. Call the leadership in the House. Make sure they
know that if the House lets you down on the LWCF, you will remember in
November.
We’ve listed their numbers below. Make sure they know
that Republicans will not be given immunity on the LWCF issue. If they sell you
out, you will remember.
-----5. Deluge the Speaker of the House John Boehner at
(202) 225-0600 or the Capital Switchboard at (202) 225-3121. Urge him to oppose
any LWCF funds in the Highway Bill Conference Committee. .
E-mail Boehner at: -- bill.greene@mail.house.gov <mailto:bill.greene@mail.house.gov>
-----6. Call, fax and e-mail the offices of other House
Leaders:
Rep. Eric Cantor House, Majority Leader (202) 225-4000
Fax: (202) 226-1115. E-mails: steve.stombres@mail.house.gov<mailto:steve.stombres@mail.house.gov>
neil.Bradley@mail.house.gov<mailto:neil.Bradley@mail.house.gov>
Rep. Kevin McCarthy, House Majority Whip (202) 225-0197
Fax: (202) 225-0781 E-mails: brian.worth@mail.house.gov <mailto:brian.worth@mail.house.gov>
Natalie.Buchanan@mail.house.gov
<mailto:Natalie.Buchanan@mail.house.gov>
-----7. Call both your Senators. Call any Senator at
(202) 224-3121.
Tell them the same thing. Pay special attention to the
Senators on the Conference Committee. We’ve shown which Republicans sold you
out by voting for the LWCF amendment.
-----8. Call your friends, neighbors and business
associates. Get them to call, fax and e-mail your Congressman and Senators.
Who will win? Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and the Greens are
fighting hard for the giant land acquisition LWCF trust fund.
The House is fighting back. But they are staring to cave
in. They need to know you support them as they hold firm against the pressure
from the Senate.
You are making history but you must keep up the pressure.
This battle will likely go to the end of June or even beyond. But the LWCF part
of the battle is raging now and will be decided shortly. Your calls, faxes and
e-mails are critical now.
Keep calling at least two or three members of the Highway
Bill conference committee every day.
Your Time Is Now, Make History, Stop LWCF Highway Bill
Funds
-----The Greens are going all out. They are calling every
day. If you fail to call, fax and e-mail your Senators and Congressmen, you
will lose.
You must call, fax and e-mail your Congressman and both
Senators.
PLUS, PLUS, PLUS The Members of the Conference Committee
listed below.
-----If the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish and
Wildlife Service and BLM get the EXTRA $1.4 Billion Dollars over their normal
appropriations over the next two years the greens are going for, no community
will be safe. Land acquisition will go crazy. The Greens want to use this as a
precedent for spending every year.
-----No Trust Fund -- Don’t allow the Greens to create a
huge land acquisition trust fund that threatens rural America. Congress needs
to cut the deficit and the debt, not buy private land and turn it into Federal
land.
-----The Greens plan to use the huge trust fund money now
in the Senate version of the LWCF Highway bill as a precedent to increase the
amount of money Congress gives the LWCF EVERY YEAR. They want to make it a
Trust Fund like CARA. Don’t let it happen.
Don’t let down. Call, Fax and e-mail at least once a day.
The LWCF funds are taken right from the taxpayer. The 1.4
billion dollars comes right out of your pocket.
-----The "willing buyer, willing seller procedure of
acquiring land touted by park officials is 'meaningless' and a more proactive
method is generally used," said William Kriz, chief of Land Acquisition
for the Park Service, in an article in the Concord Journal
(Massachusetts) in 1988.
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*Keep calling until June 30th.* It could go beyond that.
We’ll keep you informed. Call any Senator at (202) 224-3121. Call any Congressman
at (202) 225-3121. You must make his or her phone come off the hook.
No land acquisition funds (LWCF) should be included in
the Highway Bill.
The LWCF is a constant attack on Rural America. It is the
attempt by the greens to drive rural people out of their homes and into the
cities.
You do not want the Park Service, Forest Service, Fish
and Wildlife Service and BLM to get these billions of dollars to buy millions
of acres of private land and convert it to government ownership.
The land acquisition funding (LWCF) in the Senate Highway
Bill threatens all private property owners, ranchers, farmers, miners, forestry
and other users of both private as well as Federal land.
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- - - You must bury these Conferees with calls, faxes and e-mails. We’ve listed
an e-mail address for a staff person on the staff of each of the Congressmen
and Senators on the Conference Committee.
For the Senators you can see how they voted on the
original LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Fund). Yea means they voted YES.
That means if there is a Yea by your Senators name, he or she voted not to
protect your. Her or she voted for a massive expansion of Federal spending to
buy private land.
Don’t forget when sending to the staff of a Senator that
there is an underscore between the first and last names. Example:
ryan_Jackson@
Republican Senators on the Conference Committee:
Notice when one voted for the LWCF. That means that
without your calls, faxes and e-mails, they are likely to support the LWCF in
the Conference Committee.
James Inhofe (R-OK) (Yea) --Fax: (202) 229-0380 – Staff
E-mails:
ryan_Jackson@inhofe.senate.gov
<mailto:ryan_Jackson@inhofe.senate.gov>
; luke_Holland@inhofe.senate.gov
<mailto:luke_Holland@inhofe.senate.gov>
David Vitter (R-LA) (Yea) – Fax: (202) 228-5081 -- Staff
E-mails:
bryan_zumwalt@vitter.senate.gov
<mailto:bryan_zumwalt@vitter.senate.gov>
;
Orrin Hatch (R-UT) (No) – Fax: (202) 224-6331 – Staff
E-mails:
jared_brown@hatch.senate.gov<mailto:jared_brown@hatch.senate.gov>
; john_tanner@hatch.senate.gov<mailto:john_tanner@hatch.senate.gov>
Richard Shelby (R-AL) (Yea) – Fax: (202) 224-3416 – Staff
E-mails:; andrew_newton@shelby.senate.gov<mailto:andrew_newton@shelby.senate.gov>
;
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) (Yea) – Fax: (202) 224-0776 –
Staff
E-mails: dana_barbieri@hutchison.senate.gov
<mailto:dana_barbieri@hutchison.senate.gov>
;
david_davis@hutchison.senate.gov
<mailto:david_davis@hutchison.senate.gov>
; jenifer_healy@hutchison.senate.gov
<mailto:jenifer_healy@hutchison.senate.gov>
; troy_lyons@hutchinson.senate.gov
<mailto:troy_lyons@hutchinson.senate.gov>
John Hoeven (R-ND) (Yea) – Fax: (202) 224-7999 – Staff
E-mails:
don_larson@hoeven.senate.gov<mailto:don_larson@hoeven.senate.gov>
; ryan_bernstein@hoeven.senate.gov
<mailto:ryan_bernstein@hoeven.senate.gov>
;
josh_carter@hoeven.senate.gov<mailto:josh_carter@hoeven.senate.gov>
; emily_tryon@hoeven.senate.gov
<mailto:emily_tryon@hoeven.senate.gov>
;
jessica_yearous@hoeven.senate.gov
<mailto:jessica_yearous@hoeven.senate.gov>
Other Democrats on the Conference Committee: Barbara
Boxer (D-CA)(Yea), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) (Yea), Richard Durbin (D-IL) (Yea),
Tim Johnson (D-SD) (Yea), Charles Schumer (D-NY) (Yea), Bill Nelson (D-FL)
(Yea), Robert Menendez (D-NJ) (Yea). Notice they all voted for the giant LWCF
land acquisition spending amendment.
Key Republicans who will influence the Committee and
appear to be getting soft on the LWCF.
Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) malisah.small@mail.house.gov<mailto:malisah.small@mail.house.gov>
; lindsay.slater@mail.house.gov
<mailto:lindsay.slater@mail.house.gov>
Senator Lisa Murkowski (Yea) (R-Alaska)
Nathan_bergerbest@murkowski.senate.gov
<mailto:Nathan_bergerbest@murkowski.senate.gov>
; tara_shaw@murkowsi.senate.gov
<mailto:tara_shaw@murkowsi.senate.gov>
;
frank_gladics@energy.senate.gov
<mailto:frank_gladics@energy.senate.gov>
Key Democrat to contact:
Tim Johnson (D-SD) (Yea). Staff E-mails:
todd_stubbendieck@johnson.senate.gov
<mailto:todd_stubbendieck@johnson.senate.gov>
; megan_descamps@johnson.senate.gov
<mailto:megan_descamps@johnson.senate.gov>
; janelle_diluccia@johnson.senate.gov
<mailto:janelle_diluccia@johnson.senate.gov>
Remember, you can call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.
-----Here are the Congressmen on the LWCF Highway Bill
Conference Committee. You may call any Congressmen at (202) 225-3121. You
should call, fax and e-mail all the Congressmen from your state.
Republicans:
John L. Mica (FL) -- Fax: (202) 226-0821 – Staff E-mails:
brian.waldrip@mail.house.gov<mailto:brian.waldrip@mail.house.gov>
; casey.brinck@mail.house.gov<mailto:casey.brinck@mail.house.gov>
;
Dave Camp (R-MI) – Fax: (202) 225-9679 – Staff E-mails:
rob.guido@mail.house.gov<mailto:rob.guido@mail.house.gov>
Doc Hastings (R-WA) – Fax: (202) 225-1171 – Staff
E-mails:
james.streeter@mail.house.gov<mailto:james.streeter@mail.house.gov>
; jenny.gorski@mail.house.gov<mailto:jenny.gorski@mail.house.gov>
;
Ralph Hall (R-TX) – Fax: (202) 225-3332
–mitzyn.delarosa@mail.house.gov
<mailto:–mitzyn.delarosa@mail.house.gov>
;
Fred Upton (R-MI) – Fax: (202) 225-4986 – michael.beckerman@mail.house.gov<mailto:michael.beckerman@mail.house.gov>
Don Young (R-AK) – Fax: (202) 225-0425 – erik.elam@mail.house.gov <mailto:erik.elam@mail.house.gov>
John J. Duncan, Jr. (R-TN) – Fax: (202) 225-6440 – scott.fischer@mail.house.gov<mailto:scott.fischer@mail.house.gov>
Bill Shuster (R-PA) -- Fax: (202) 225-2486 – stephen.martinko@mail.house.gov<mailto:stephen.martinko@mail.house.gov>
Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) – Fax: (202) 225-7856 – Andrew.stasiowski@mail.house.gov<mailto:Andrew.stasiowski@mail.house.gov>
Rick Crawford (R-AR) – Fax: (202) 225-5602 – greg.michalek@mail.house.gov<mailto:greg.michalek@mail.house.gov>
Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) – Fax: (202) 225-3478 – chad.ramey@mail.house.gov <mailto:chad.ramey@mail.house.gov>
Larry Bucshon (R-IN) – Fax: (202) 225-3294 – teresa.buckley@mail.house.gov<mailto:teresa.buckley@mail.house.gov>
; sarah.whiting@mail.house.gov<mailto:sarah.whiting@mail.house.gov>
Richard Hanna (R-NY) – Fax: (202) 225-1891 – adam.hepburn@mail.house.gov <mailto:adam.hepburn@mail.house.gov>
; andrew.brady@mail.house.gov<mailto:andrew.brady@mail.house.gov>
Steve Southerland (R-FL) – Fax: (202) 226-4183 – blair.mixon@mail.house.gov <mailto:blair.mixon@mail.house.gov>
James Lankford (R-OK) – Fax: (202) 226-1463 – brittnee.preston@mail.house.gov<mailto:brittnee.preston@mail.house.gov>
;
michelle.altman@mail.house.gov
<mailto:michelle.altman@mail.house.gov>
Reid Ribble (R-WI) – Fax: (202) 225-5729 – paul.bleiberg@mail.house.gov<mailto:paul.bleiberg@mail.house.gov>
Pat Tiberi (R-OH) – Fax: (202) 226-4523 – brad.bailey@mail.house.gov <mailto:brad.bailey@mail.house.gov>
Rob Bishop (R-UT) – Fax: (202) 225-5857 – john.newhall@mail.house.gov <mailto:john.newhall@mail.house.gov>
Chip Cravaack (R-MN) – Fax: (202) 225-0699 – paul.blocher@mail.house.gov <mailto:paul.blocher@mail.house.gov>
; ian.foley@mail.house.gov<mailto:ian.foley@mail.house.gov>
Ed Whitfield (R-KY) – Fax: (202) 225-3547 – cory.hicks@mail.house.gov <mailto:cory.hicks@mail.house.gov>
; craley.davis@mail.house.gov<mailto:craley.davis@mail.house.gov>
Democrats:
Nick Rahall (D-WV) – Fax: (202) 225-3121 – aaron.Pritchard@mail.house.gov<mailto:aaron.Pritchard@mail.house.gov>
Peter Defazio (D-OR) – Fax: (202) 225-0032 – mahar-piersma@mail.house.gov<mailto:mahar-piersma@mail.house.gov>
Jerry Costello (D-IL) – Fax: (202) 225-0285 – sarah.blackwood@mail.house.gov<mailto:sarah.blackwood@mail.house.gov>
Tim Bishop (D-NY) – Fax: (202) 225-3143 – mark.copeland@mail.house.gov<mailto:mark.copeland@mail.house.gov>
Henry Waxman (D-CA) – Fax: (202) 225-4099 – zahava.goldman@mail.house.gov<mailto:zahava.goldman@mail.house.gov>
Ed Markey (D-MA) – Fax: (202) 226-0092 – william.spring@mail.house.gov<mailto:william.spring@mail.house.gov>
E.B. Johnson (D-TX) – Fax: (202) 226-1477 – chris.Kelley@mail.house.gov <mailto:chris.Kelley@mail.house.gov>
;
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) – Fax: (202) 225-8941 – tyler.Frisbee@mail.house.gov<mailto:tyler.Frisbee@mail.house.gov>
Additional House staff to e-mail:
jonah.shumate@mail.house.gov<mailto:jonah.shumate@mail.house.gov>
; jacob.melcher@mail.house.gov<mailto:jacob.melcher@mail.house.gov>