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To:  ALL ACTIVISTS
From: Jim Jontz and Steve Holmer
Date: June 17, 1996
 
 
            RIDER REPEAL VOTE WEDNESDAY OR THURSDAY
 
It is likely that the best opportunity we will have to repeal the rider
will be this week.
 
There will be at least one amendment rider repeal amendment
offered when the Interior Appropriations bill hits the floor
Wednesday or Thursday.
 
Rep. Elizabeth Furse will go to the Rules Committee last tomorrow
to ask to offer a straight rider repeal amendment.  We hope there
will be Republicans there to help her.
 
If she fails to get a rule allowing her to offer the amendment as a
straight repeal, she will still be able to offer an amendment to the
bill to cut off funding for the rider effective October 1, 1996.  
 
We are hopeful that there will be one or more Republicans who will
sponsor or cosponsor the amendment with Rep. Furse.  Following is
a list of some of the most prominent Republicans who have
cosponsored the Furse bill (HR 2745) so far.  They need to be
encouraged to sponsor and/or speak on behalf of a rider repeal
amendment.
 
MEMBER              FAX       PHONE  (Area Code 202)
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert   225-1891       225-6101
Rep. Tom Campbell   225-6788       225-2631
Rep. Wayne Gilchrest     225-0254       225-5311
Rep. Porter Goss         225-6820       225-2536
Rep. Steve Horn          226-1012       225-6676
Rep. John Kasich                        225-5355
Rep. Connie Morella 225-1389       225-5341
Rep. John Porter         225-0157       225-4835
Rep. Peter Torkildsen    225-8037       225-8020
Rep. James Walsh    225-4042       225-3701
 
All Representatives need to hear from their constituents in support
of repeal of the rider.  
 
We now have 147 cosponsors for the Furse bill.  We are very close
to winning a vote, which will have an enormous impact in pushing
the White House and changing the dynamics in the Senate.
 
Thanks in advance for everything you have been doing, and can do
this week to repeal the rider.