🚀 go-pugleaf

TO:       All Forest Activists
FROM:     Steve Holmer & Jim Jontz
DATE:     March 27, 1996
 
SUBJECT:  President Considers Compromise With Sen. Hatfield
 
 
     We have just learned that the Clinton Administration is
having discussions with Sens. Mark Hatfield (R-OR) and Slade
Gorton (R-WA) about the rider extension language that is included
in the Omnibus Spending bill.  The discussion has focused on the
provisions dealing with replacement volume rather than rider repeal. 
As currently written, the Hatfield/Gorton language says that all
replacement volume will be under the terms of the rider and
exempt from all environmental laws and citizen appeal.  
 
     Has the President abandoned his public statements in support
of full repeal?  
 
     The time is now to tell the White House that the only way to
undo the damage he caused by signing the rider is to insist on a
full repeal as part of the Omnibus spending bill and to terminate
the contracts of all rider sales.  
 
     To date the White House has taken little or no concrete action
to reverse destructive sales, or bring the full weight of his
Presidency (i.e. a veto) down on the rider.  Please call the President
and remind him of the tremendous destruction being caused by the
rider he signed, including the clearcutting of thousand year old
Ancient Forests.  
 
     You can reach the White House best by calling Chief of Staff
Leon Panetta's comment line at 202/456-6797 or by calling 202/456-
1111 (9-5 EST).  Also please send in more Smokey faxes to 202/456-
2883, 456-7044 (VP), 456-2710 (McGinty) and 496-4849 (re-election
office).  Emails can also be sent to president@whitehouse.gov and
vicepresident@whitehouse.gov