Since this comes up a lot:
> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:56:44 -0500 (EST)
> Subject: Senate about to vote again on drilling in
> the Arctic Refuge!
>
> Dear NRDC BioGems Defender,
>
> Last week, the Senate Budget Committee caved in to
> Big Oil and passed a budget
> resolution that includes a provision designed
> exclusively to allow drilling in
> the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
>
> The entire Senate will vote on this resolution as
> early as Thursday! Last
> December, we blocked Arctic drilling by generating
> tens of thousands of phone
> calls to Capitol Hill. It's time to do it again!
>
> Please call your Senators right now:
>
> Senator Dianne Feinstein: (202) 224-3841
> Senator Barbara Boxer: (202) 224-3553
>
> Tell them to:
>
> "Vote NO on the budget because it's bad for the
> Arctic Refuge, bad for the
> environment, and bad for the American people. Vote
> YES on any amendment to
> strip Arctic drilling from this budget bill."
>
> Please reply to this email to let us know that you
> called. Your phone call will
> have the biggest impact, but if you are unable to
> call, then please send
> electronic messages to your Senators by going to
>
http://www.nrdcactionfund.org/arctic/action.asp?step=2&item=53391
> right now.
>
> Senate leaders are using this budget ploy to open
> the Arctic Refuge to drilling
> because they know they can't pass it through the
> legitimate legislative
> process. They aren't even pretending that their
> budget resolution is about
> balancing the budget. In fact, their resolution
> contains only one
> reconciliation instruction: the provision that would
> open the Arctic Refuge to
> drilling.
>
> Please call your Senators today. Let's stop this
> abuse of the budget process
> and stand up for America's Arctic Refuge in its hour
> of greatest need!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Frances Beinecke
> NRDC Action Fund
>
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