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Your Bill - For the Sake of Deficit Reduction

The wheels of Congress have been turning as slowly as usual, but some measures have already been passed. All these measures are presumably to help fight the deficit, but this is what's being done:
  • A budget resolution has already been passed which allows Congress to sell National Parks, without exemptions, to private industry.

  • Another bill that has been passed allows the National Forests to be logged without out regard for existing safeguards.

  • Presently on the block is H.R. 260, which would establish a "National Park Review Commission," the purpose of which is to recomend which parks should be closed. The general public would have no ability to participate in such decisions.
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  • In the House, H.R. 1675 (National Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act) is being considered. It promotes oil drilling and other commmercial exploitation of all 504 National Wildlife Refuges.

  • The Senate will soon be considering a bill that will surrender all land currently overseen by the Federal Bureau of Land Management to the states, which will more than likely open these lands up to various industrial concerns to help pay for their own deficits.
We urge you all to call, fax, or e-mail Representatives and Senators. You can e-mail your representative through:
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Random Fact:
In 1964, a freighter carrying a cargo of sheep sank in the harbor of Kuwait. Afraid that the dead sheep would contaminate drinking water, people fevorishly tried to devise ways of raising the ship. Luckily someone remembered a Disney comic book in which Donald Duck used ping pong balls to raise a sunken ship. So the ship was filled with 27 billion plastic balls and was soon afloat.
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