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Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 10:41 AM

Subject: Demand Plame Leak Investigation

 

  

 

Support Holt's Plame Investigation Bill
The BackBone Campaign and the After Downing Street Coalition are asking their members, allies, and all U.S. citizens to urge your Congress Member to Co-Sponsor Congressman Rush Holt's bill (H. Res. 363), calling for a Congressional investigation into the dangerous outing of Valerie Plame. Tell them that you want a discharge petition to overcome the stonewalling of the Republican leadership. (A discharge petition, if signed by a majority of House members, forces a resolution to the floor of the full House.)

Republican-controlled committees in the House defeated four separate Resolutions of Inquiry in September that were targeted at Bush as well as Secretaries Rumsfeld and Rice, along with AG Gonzalez. The next step is to get enough support for H. Res. 363 to generate a discharge petition and thus a vote on the full House floor. 

In recent months, our coalition lobbied hard for a Resolution of Inquiry into the Bush Administration's lies that launched the war, H. Res. 375. While the Resolution lost by one vote in the International Relations Committee, we created debate, united the Democrats, persuaded a few Republicans to break ranks, and built an organization of grassroots lobbyists that took us from 39 co-sponsors to 83 in six weeks.

Unlike H. Res. 375, H. Res. 363 can be kept alive with a discharge petition. We need all 202 Democrats and 16 Republicans to not merely cosponsor, but to sign a discharge petition to force a vote on the floor. There is no excuse for any Democrat not to sign onto this petition, and though Republicans will be pressured by the administration, it would be unethical for them to refuse as well. 

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