Action Alert
November 3, 2005
Starting
Monday, November 7:
the National Call-in Week to Save Vital Services
Call your U.S. Representative
toll-free:
800-426-8073
Click here for pdf
flier with this information:
www.chn.org/pdf/novembercallin.pdf.
The House of
Representatives is expected to vote during the week
of November 7 on proposals to slash assistance for
some of the most vulnerable people in America –
families lacking health insurance; abused and
neglected children; single mothers trying to collect
child support; working families relying on food
stamps; people with severe disabilities; and others.
Why is the House
making billions in cuts? To pay towards the cost of
tax breaks for the wealthy.
It’s easy to
call.
Step
1: On Monday,
November 7 or any day that week, call
1-800-426-8073 to be connected toll-free to
the Capitol Switchboard. Ask to speak to your
Representative. (If you don’t know who your
Representative is, the people at the Capitol
Switchboard can tell you, or you can visit
www.congress.org where you
can insert your home address and identify your
member of the House.)
Step 2:
After you are connected to your Representative’s
office, say:
“My name is
_______________ and I live in (your town/city). I
would like Representative [name] to vote NO on the
reconciliation bill to cut $50 billion in vital
services to vulnerable people, including Medicaid,
SSI, foster care, Food Stamps, and child support.
These cuts are the wrong priorities. Vote
against cuts that hurt the poor and sick and
vote against more unfair, unwise, and
unaffordable tax breaks for the well-heeled.”
So far, the
right wing has been unable to collect enough votes
to pass such drastic cuts – because of people like
you! They’re trying again, and they’re very serious
about it. But we
can strengthen the hand of House members who do not
agree with these dangerous choices - if
we and all
our networks call!
For
more information, contact Deborah Weinstein at the
Coalition on Human Needs (dweinstein@chn.org);
202-223-2532. Many thanks to American Friends
Service Committee for donating the toll-free
number.
AFSC welcomes groups to circulate and use the
toll-free number in support of the non-partisan
budget goals towards which CHN always works and
without linking the alert to a website soliciting
donations or actions which may be used to support
partisan lobbying or work.
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