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ANOTHER HOUSE VOTE ON RIDER POSSIBLE IN SEPTEMBER

     Rep. Elizabeth Furse (D-OR) is expected to offer an amendment to halt
funding for the logging rider as part of the Continuing Resolution (CR).  A
CR is passed when the regular appropriations bills needed to keep the
government open have not been completed.  A CR is very likely this year due
to the large amount of unfinished work Congress has to complete on the
thirteen appropriations bills that fund the government.  In addition there is a
strong prospect that the President will kill some of these appropriations bills
with a veto due to more riders and destructive budget cuts.  The Furse
amendment was recently offered on the House Interior Appropriations bill and
was narrowly defeated by a vote of only 209-211, so we know that this is a
vote we can win.

     The Furse amendment will have to be cleared by the House Rules
Committee, which is controlled by Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), to be
brought to the House floor for a vote.  The Committee denied two previous
requests to allow a vote on H.R. 2745, Rep. Furse's bill to repeal the rider. 
Please contact Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, and urge him to reverse
the anti-environmental policies of the 104th Congress and to support an end
the logging rider by supporting the Furse amendment.  Call the Speaker at
202/225-4501, fax 202/225-4656 or write, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington, D.C. 20510


MEMBERS TO SIGN LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON AGAINST
RIDER

     In addition to attempting another vote in the House, Rep. Furse is
sponsoring a letter to President Clinton for Representatives to sign-on
calling on the President to insist the rider be halted as part of the
Continuing Resolution.  We are hoping that all of the co-sponsors plus
many of the Members who voted for the Furse amendment will sign-on. 
This will send a strong signal to the Administration, that they must insist
on an end to the rider as part of the funding agreement with Congress. 
Please call your Representative and urge them to 1) vote in favor of the
Furse amendment to halt the rider if it is offered; and 2) sign-on to the
letter sponsored by Rep. Furse, asking the President to stop the rider. 
Call the Capitol Switchboard at 202/225-3121 or write, U.S. House of
Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20510.