Talk to Your Congress Member and Senators While They’re Home

by David Swanson

Senators are in their states until April 9, and Congress Members in their districts until April 15. Now’s an ideal time, by yourself or as a small group, to go and meet with your representatives....

You may want to lobby for:

1. Impeachment of Bush and Cheney: Here are resources. You should not allow your congress member or senators to maintain the pretense that any investigation is needed prior to beginning an impeachment hearing. Tell them that the FISA violations have been publicly confessed to, that the signing statements are on the White House website. Tell them that you’re not afraid of President Cheney but interested in restoring the rule of law to all future presidents, and that they can avoid a President Cheney (which the Republicans would never allow anyway) by impeaching him first. If they talk to you about investigations, ask them to investigate the lies that took us to war. Urge them not to back down on subpoenaing Rove, and let them know you’ll be writing letters and making phone calls supporting their effort.

2. Ending the funding of the Iraq War: Here is a House bill, and a Senate bill that they can cosponsor. Let them know that you will not stand for any further weakening of the Supplemental bill, that you expect the exit date to be kept in, moved up, and given actual teeth through the power of the purse. Tell them that you do not believe the nonsense about war funding being for troops, that you know it is for oil and weapons companies and that you want it stopped. Ask them to remove from the Supplemental the requirement that Iraq enact an oil law that, as currently written, would open up much of Iraq’s oil to theft by foreign corporations. Here are talking points from UFPJ.

3. Prohibiting an Aggressive War on Iran: Here is a House bill and a Senate bill that they can cosponsor. Here are more resources.

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