Archive for November, 2009
Health care reform proposal must be stopped dead in its tracks.
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Reid Seeks Critical Votes to Bring the Bill to the Senate Floor |
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| The health care reform proposal released by Majority Leader Harry Reid last night must be stopped dead in its tracks. His bill would lead to the biggest expansion of abortion in thirty years. Tell your Senator to vigorously oppose Reidcare. The bill is a disgrace and should never be allowed onto the floor of the Senate. Here are a few of its problems: – A public option authorized to use taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions – Taxpayer dollars are poured into health plans that cover elective abortions – No protections for insurance firms not wanting to cover abortions Before the legislation can be debated in the Senate, Harry Reid must marshal 60 votes to oppose a filibuster against the motion to proceed. Tell your Senator to vote against the motion to proceed. The bill is the most vulnerable at this early stage of the legislative process. A recent CNN poll found that 61% of Americans strongly oppose allowing their tax dollars to fund abortions while only 37% supported it. Americans simply do not believe that elected officials should violate the consciences of their taxpaying constituents by forcing them to subsidize abortion on demand. It is critical that you take action today. We need to bury this legislation under an avalanche of constituent objections, so, after writing, convince your friends, family, and coworkers to object as well. You are the key to tapping into that 61% of Americans. The way that we can win this is by sending the deafening objections of the American people to the Senate. Tell your friends to go online to voice their objections: www.sba-list.org/stopreidcare For Life, Marjorie Dannenfelser |
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Protect the Poor in Climate Legislation
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
November 2, 2009
Tell Senators on Key Committees: Protect the Poor in Climate Legislation
Take Action Now!
Contact your Senator now (http://actioncenter.crs.org) and urge that the
Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733, the climate change bill) now being considered Fully protect low-income individuals and families in the U.S. from any potential rise in the price of energy and other consumer goods
resulting from the legislation by providing the same level of funding for low-income assistance as in the House bill;
Significantly increase the funding for international adaptation programs
. At a minimum allocate $3.5 billion of funding generated by the bill to international adaptation programs starting in 2012 and increase rapidly to $7 billion annually by 2020 so that people living in poverty around the world can be protected from the effects of climate change.
Why is action important now?
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will likely vote on this climate change legislation this week. This begins a serious and overdue effort to face up to our moral and environmental challenges.
What is the Church’s position?
CRS, CCUSA and USCCB seek climate legislation that achieves two fundamental goals: care for creation and protecting the poor and vulnerable—both at home and abroad—who contribute least to climate change, but suffer its worst consequences. While we are encouraged by language in the Kerry-Boxer bill acknowledging the need to protect poor people worldwide, we are deeply concerned that the level of funding for these provisions is well below what is needed.
What does climate change have to do with my Catholic faith?
The Catholic Church brings a unique voice to the climate change debate by lifting up both the moral dimensions of caring for God’s creation and the needs of the most vulnerable among us. The Catholic bishops’ primary concern is to place the life, dignity and needs of the poor and vulnerable at the center of climate legislation. Poor people should not bear an undue burden of the impacts of climate change or the global adjustments needed to address it. To learn about Catholic teaching on climate change, read the June 2001 statement by the United States Catholic Bishops,
Global Climate Change: A Plea for Dialogue, Prudence and the Common Good. How is the Catholic Church confronting the effects of climate change?
The Church promotes prudent action in the face of the growing impacts of global climate change and is seeking common ground for the common good in a very polarized debate. CRS has already witnessed the tragic consequences of climate change in the daily lives of people living in poverty and is working diligently to help affected communities through health, agriculture, water, and emergency preparedness programs in 100 countries. USCCB, CCUSA and CRS are members of the Catholic Coalition on Climate Change (CCCC) that invites Catholics to join the Catholic Climate Covenant. Through the Catholics Confront Global Poverty initiative, USCCB and CRS are mobilizing one million Catholics to learn, pray and act in support of policies that will help address the effects of climate change on poor people worldwide.
| TAKE ACTION NOWJohn Kerry, MA (sponsor)
Barbara Boxer, CA (sponsor) Richard Lugar, IN Benjamin Cardin, MD Joseph Lieberman, CT Max Baucus, MT Thomas R. Carper, DE Frank R. Lautenberg, NJ Bernard Sanders, VT Amy Klobuchar, MN : Contact your senators (http://actioncenter.crs.org) below who are members of the Environment and Public Works, Foreign Relations and Finance Committees now – through e-mail, phone calls, or FAX letters. |
Sheldon Whitehouse, RITom Udall, NM
Jeff Merkley, OR Kirsten Gillibrand, NY Arlen Specter, PA George Voinovich, OH Lamar Alexander, TN Robert Menendez, NJ Bob Casey, PA
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