Act For Change Petitions

[InjaYew]

http://www.workingforchange.com/acti...?categoryid=13

There are several good ones on this page.

Demand a New Prescription for Medicare
Urge your senators to quickly pass new legislation to allow for Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices for its members and to allow for drugs from Canada to be imported.

Tell Your Senators: Protect Freedom of Choice
Urge your senators and representative to support the Freedom of Choice Act to secure the right to choose for future generations by establishing a federal law that will guarantee reproductive freedom to all women in all 50 states.

Oppose Writing Intolerance into Our Constitution
Urge your senators and representative to oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment.

John Ashcroft, Stay Out of Our Medical Records
Call on Attorney General John Ashcroft to drop his effort to subpoena the medical records of doctors challenging the late term abortion ban. His job is to ensure safety and justice for the American people, not intimidate doctors who disagree with the current administration by invading patients' medical privacy.

Thank Gavin Newsom For Standing Up for Gay Marriage
Civil marriage is a civil right. Thank San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for standing up for inclusion and civil rights for all.

Leave No Cow Behind
E-mail your senators and representative today.

Censure President Bush
Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally reprimand him for betraying the nation's trust. If ever there was a time for this, it's now. Call on Congress to censure President Bush.

Investigate Halliburton
Urge Congress to immediately begin hearings on these charges and to put all further reconstruction contracts and payments with Halliburton on hold until these matters can be fully investigated.

Keep the Door Closed on Damaging Energy Legislation
Urge your senators and representative to block all efforts to pass the energy bill.

End War Profiteering in Iraq
Urge your senators and representative to support, and if they don't already, to co-sponsor the War Profiteering Prevention Act.

Restore Honor to the White House: It's Time for Mr. Bush to Apologize
Urge President Bush to apologize for overstating the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, to form an independent commission with a strong mandate and subpoena powers, and to offer to be the first witness about what he knew and when he knew it.

Oppose Judicial Nominee William Myers
Please urge your senators to block the confirmation of former Interior Solicitor William Myers to a lifetime position on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Defeat Extremist Judicial Nominees
Please urge your senators to oppose the nominations of Carolyn Kuhl, Priscilla Owen, and Janice Rogers Brown, including continuing to support filibusters if needed.

Tell Yamaha to Stop Making Noise
Tell Yamaha to stop making noise. Urge them to clean up their snowmobiles and other noisy, polluting thrillcraft.

Jumpstart Ford
Urge Ford to change its business practices and lead the American auto industry in clean vehicle technologies now.

Support New Legislation to Fix the PATRIOT Act
Urge your senators to support the "Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act" (S. 1552).

New Yorkers, Increase Access to Emergency Contraception
Urge Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno to support the Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Act, S. 3339 that would allow New York's women to obtain EC directly from a pharmacist.

[ 03-09-2004, 07:39 AM: Message edited by: InjaYew ]

[Timber Loftis]

Thank Gavin Newsom For Standing Up for Gay Marriage
Civil marriage is a civil right. Thank San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom for standing up for inclusion and civil rights for all.

- Thank him for breaking the law? No thank you. Civil disobedience may have its time and place, but sit-ins and mayorial misbehavior are a bit premature on this one. Additionally, it is reprehensible to use your position of power in the government to break laws and ram through governmental legal acts (performing marriages) that will simply be obliterated once judicial review comes around. Go to a sit in or a protest, but don't abuse the office of mayor by allowing illegal marriages to continue.

Censure President Bush
Congress has the power to censure the President -- to formally reprimand him for betraying the nation's trust. If ever there was a time for this, it's now. Call on Congress to censure President Bush.

- [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] Not worth a retort.

Tell Your Senators: Protect Freedom of Choice
Urge your senators and representative to support the Freedom of Choice Act to secure the right to choose for future generations by establishing a federal law that will guarantee reproductive freedom to all women in all 50 states.

- Absolutely not. If ever there was a topic where the federal government should stay out, it's this one. Morality laws should be determined by the state. The affect on interstate commerce is too attenuated, and if it doesn't affect commerce between the states or is not a power otherwise specifically granted by the Constitution, state law should govern. I agree with the theory, mind you, but it's not really for the feds to control. And, yes, I realize I'm undercutting Roe v. Wade.

Oppose Judicial Nominee William Myers
Please urge your senators to block the confirmation of former Interior Solicitor William Myers to a lifetime position on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

- From what I can tell William Myers comes down on the opposite side of me on almost all environmental issues. He is a right wingnut. However, the namby-pamby far left wingnut liberal idiots that generally comprise the 9th Circuit (the most overturned Circuit of them all) are known for their "wacky" judicial opinions. Change and progress is one thing, but these loonies can't get over the extreme leftism long enough to undertake and honest legal look at issues. William Myers, therefore, would be a welcomed balancing viewpoint. He could help even out the keel of this radical nutty circuit. So, please urge your Senators to support the confirmation of William Myers.

I only addressed ones I disagreed with, not all of them. Why argue what I tend to agree with?

[ 03-10-2004, 07:12 PM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

[InjaYew]

So far I've done Mad Cow, Ford, Halliburton, War Profiteering, and Energy Legislation. I am still in ponderance of some of the others.

I also still ponder whether petitions actually do any good, but I figure it couldn't hurt.