Sign the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-mothers-act
(NOTE: CLICK HERE
to get a copy of our press release so you can send it out via fax or email.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE MARCH 3 PRESS RELEASE.)
Many of you may have received and acted on the
e-mail alert below. If so, great. But we also need a very, very important
follow up action. We need to focus our communication to members of the
Health, Education, Labor and Pension (HELP) committee. This is critical.
(************************Note from
Amy: HERE IS ALL
THE CONTACT INFO:
If you go to
congress.org
and click on Congressional Directory
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt, and
go to the Senators' websites, you can also use the web form to pay for a
special hand delivered letter which you can type right there on the
site. It costs $9 per letter to do that but you can send an email for
free. Then you can also check a box to have it go on the congress
website as a Letters To Leaders
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issuesaction/letters/ or
you can post a Soapbox Alert on a specific person.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/soapbox/
Also from the Congress website you can use the Media Guide
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/ to send out
press releases to every major media organization for free. You can do up
to 5 at one time and there is no limit on how many times per day you can
use that feature, as far as I know.
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Cosponsors (and the date that they signed on):
http://www.uniteforlife.org/MOTHERpress.htm#currentcosponsors
Senate Sponsor:
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ]
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/395
(introduced 5/11/2007) (The state of NJ has a law like this already
in place - I am certain they have already seen the body count go up.)
DC: Phone:
(202) 224-4744 Fax:
(202) 228-2197
Newark Phone:
(973) 645-3030 Fax:
(973) 645-0502
Barrington Phone:
(856) 757-5353 Fax:
(856) 546-1526
Cosponsors (9)
Latest Major Action: 5/11/2007 Referred to Senate committee. Status:
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor,
and Pensions.
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COSPONSORS(9), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]:
(Sort: by date)
Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 7/24/2007 (there are about a dozen
other offices listed on her profile at
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/358)
DC Phone:
(202) 224-3553 Fax:
(415) 956-6701
Sen Brown, Sherrod [OH] - 5/11/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/472
DC Phone:
(202) 224-2315 Fax:
(202) 228-6321
Cleveland Phone:
(216) 522-7272 Fax:
(216) 522-2239
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 5/11/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/686
DC:
(202) 224-2823
(202) 224-1083 Local:
(860) 258-6940 (860) 258-6958
Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] - 5/11/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/210
DC: Phone:
(202) 224-2152 Fax:
(202) 228-0400 Chicago Phone: (312) 353-4952 Fax:
(312) 353-0150
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 5/11/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/378
DC Phone:
(202) 224-3224 Fax:
(202) 228-4054
Newark Phone: (973) 639-8700 Fax:
(973) 639-8723
Sen Obama, Barack [IL] - 10/23/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/3181
DC:
(202) 224-2854 Fax:
(202) 228-4260 LOCAL:
(312) 886-3506 Fax: (312) 886-3514
Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 6/13/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/594
DC:
(202) 224-5141 Fax:
(202) 228-0776 LOCAL:
(802) 862-0697 Fax: (802) 860-6370
Sen Snowe,
Olympia J. [ME] - 5/11/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/282
DC Phone:
(202) 224-5344 Fax:
(202) 224-1946
Portland Phone: (207) 874-0883 Fax:
(207) 874-7631
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 5/25/2007
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/31753
DC Phone:
(202) 224-2921 Fax:
(202) 228-6362
Providence Phone:
(401) 453-5294 Fax:
(401) 453-5085
Plus,
Hillary Clinton signed on on Feb. 25.
http://www.congress.org/bio/id/10902
DC Phone:
(202) 224-4451 Fax:
(202) 228-0282
New York Phone: (212) 688-6262 Fax:
(212) 688-7444
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The HELP Committee (under
Edward Kennedy who is in favor of the bill) which is considering
this bill right now.
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SENATE HELP COMMITTEE CONTACT LIST |
|
Party |
Name |
Phone (DC) |
Fax (DC) |
Phone (local) |
Fax (local) |
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|
|
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Republican |
Richard Burr (NC) |
(202) 224-3154 |
(202) 228-2981 |
(336) 631-5125 |
(336) 725-4493 |
|
Republican |
Michael Enzi (WY) |
(202) 224-3424 |
(202) 228-0359 |
(307) 682-6268 |
(307) 682-6501 |
|
Republican |
Lamar Alexander (TN) |
(202) 224-4944 |
(202) 228-3398 |
(615) 736-5129 |
(615) 269-4803 |
|
Republican |
Johnny Isakson (GA) |
(202) 224-3643 |
(202) 228-0724 |
(770) 661-0999 |
(770) 661-0768 |
|
Republican |
Lisa Murkowski (AK) |
(202) 224-6665 |
(202) 224-5301 |
(907) 271-3735 |
(907) 276-4081 |
|
Republican |
Orrin Hatch (UT) |
(202) 224-5251 |
(202) 224-6331 |
(801) 524-4380 |
(801) 524-4379 |
|
Republican |
Pat Roberts (KS) |
(202) 224-4774 |
(202) 224-3514 |
(913) 451-9343 |
(913) 451-9446 |
|
Republican |
Wayne Allard (CO) |
(202) 224-5941 |
(202) 224-6471 |
(303) 220-7414 |
(303) 220-8126 |
|
Republican |
Tom Coburn, M.D. (OK) |
(202) 224-5754 |
(202) 224-6008 |
(918) 581-7651 |
(918) 581-7195 |
|
Democrat |
Edward Kennedy (MA) |
(202) 224-4543 |
(202) 224-2417 |
(617) 565-3170 |
(617) 565-3183 |
|
Democrat |
Christopher Dodd (CT) |
(202) 224-2823 |
(202) 224-1083 |
(860) 258-6940 |
(860) 258-6958 |
|
Democrat |
Tom Harkin (IA) |
(202) 224-3254 |
(202) 224-9369 |
(515) 284-4574 |
(515) 284-4937 |
|
Democrat |
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD) |
(202) 224-4654 |
(202) 224-8858 |
(410) 962-4510 |
(410) 962-4760 |
|
Democrat |
Jeff Bingaman (NM) |
(202) 224-5521 |
(202) 224-2852 |
(505) 988-6647 |
(505) 992-8435 |
|
Democrat |
Patty Murray (WA) |
(202) 224-2621 |
(202) 224-0238 |
(206) 553-5545 |
(206) 553-0891 |
|
Democrat |
Jack Reed (RI) |
(202) 224-4642 |
(202) 224-4680 |
(401) 943-3100 |
(401) 464-6837 |
|
Democrat |
Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) |
(202) 224-4451 |
(202) 228-0282 |
(212) 688-6262 |
(212) 688-7444 |
|
Democrat |
Barrack Obama (IL) |
(202) 224-2854 |
(202) 228-4260 |
(312) 886-3506 |
(312) 886-3514 |
|
Democrat |
Bernard Sanders (VT) |
(202) 224-5141 |
(202) 228-0776 |
(802) 862-0697 |
(802) 860-6370 |
|
Democrat |
Sherrod Brown (OH) |
(202) 224-2315 |
(202) 228-6321 |
(216) 522-7272 |
(216) 522-2239 |
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And it will a bit more than a click of the mouse
but I am asking that you take the extra couple of minutes to do this.
It's important or I wouldn't ask.
Go to the HELP committee website. The link is here.
Here you will see the names of the Committee members on the left hand
side of the page. Please go to the individual websites of the Republican
members (this will take just a bit of leg work on your part by putting their
name into
Google) and calling their office or sending a fax to them (email is
the least effective) about S. 1375 The Mother's Act.
Thanks very much.
Bruce Wiseman
YOUR URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED on a bill which has passed the House of
Representatives and is about to be voted on by the key Senate Committee in
charge of this legislation it is called "The Mother's Act" (S. 1375), whose
purpose is, "To ensure that new mothers and their families are educated about
postpartum depression, screened for symptoms, and provided with essential
services...." (Note: The mainstay of treatment of postpartum depression is
antidepressants or other psychiatric drugs). The bill is currently in the Senate
HELP Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions), which is scheduled to
consider the bill
this Thursday, February 14th. If approved, it will go to the floor of the
full Senate for a vote (again, the House has already passed the bill, so this
would be the last chance to stop it).