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The below fax was sent several days ago to John McCain urging him to break out from his energy non-policy. Did the fax make any difference? Did he or his staff read the fax? I believe so, because it was sent directly to his Arlington, Virginia campaign headquarters.



The point is that Congress is not only persuaded by the 35,000 lobbyists who swarm throughout Washington, D.C. with money stuffed in their pockets.

We can also petition Capital Switchboard Toll Free 1-800-828-0498 for such things as demanding Congress to allow drilling up to 200 miles offshore which is currently being requested by "Rep. John Peterson, a Republican from upstate Pennsylvania whose crusade to fix America's broken energy policy has brought him the interplanetary enmity of environmentalists.

Peterson will try again this week [Wednesday, June 18]to lift the congressional moratorium on offshore drilling when the full 66-member House appropriations committee meets. All he needs is a majority of one --and since his similar effort last year lost by only eight votes, he has hope." Pittsburgh Tribune Review.

Please, contact as many of the below Appropriation Committee Demcocrats as possible, asking them to redeem themselves from so very stupid energy policies they have inflicted on the American public in the past thirty years. (You may want to use slightly different language)

Here they are:

Democrats
David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chair

John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania

Norman D. Dicks, Washington

Alan B. Mollohan, West Virginia

Marcy Kaptur, Ohio

Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana

Nita M. Lowey, New York

José E. Serrano, New York

Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut

James P. Moran, Virginia

John W. Olver, Massachusetts

Ed Pastor, Arizona

David E. Price, North Carolina

Chet Edwards, Texas

Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr., Alabama

Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island

Maurice D. Hinchey, New York

Lucille Roybal-Allard, California

Sam Farr, California

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Illinois

Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Michigan

Allen Boyd, Florida

Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania

Steven R. Rothman, New Jersey

Sanford Bishop, Georgia

Marion Berry, Arkansas

Barbara Lee, California

Tom Udall, New Mexico

Adam Schiff, California

Michael Honda, California

Betty McCollum, Minnesota

Steve Israel, New York

Tim Ryan, Ohio

C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger, Maryland

Ben Chandler, Kentucky

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida

Ciro Rodriguez, Texas

Republicans

Jerry Lewis, California, Ranking Member

C.W. Bill Young, Florida

Ralph Regula, Ohio

Harold Rogers, Kentucky

Frank R. Wolf, Virginia

James T. Walsh, New York

David L. Hobson, Ohio

Joe Knollenberg, Michigan

Jack Kingston, Georgia

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey

Todd Tiahrt, Kansas

Zach Wamp, Tennessee

Tom Latham, Iowa

Robert B.Aderholt, Alabama

Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri

Kay Granger, Texas

John E. Peterson, Pennsylvania

Virgil H. Goode, Jr., Virginia

Ray LaHood, Illinois

Dave Weldon, Florida

Michael K. Simpson, Idaho

John Abney Culberson, Texas

Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois

Ander Crenshaw, Florida

Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana

John Carter, Texas

Rodney Alexander, Louisiana

Ken Calvert, California

Jo Bonner, Alabama