Tea Party WDC <http://teapartywdc.ning.com/> Tea Party WDC A message to all members of Tea Party WDC
Dear Patriots, The lead up to the Lame duck session is about to begin. This Tuesday, Republican Senators who will serve during the next session of Congress (including current Senators whose terms do not expire in 2011 and the new Senators elected on November 2, 2010) will vote in a closed session of the Senate Republican Conference on a resolution to ban earmarks, offered by Senators Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn. Here is a list of Senators and where they stand. Please call on banning earmarks and killing the three Bills S3815, S3772 and S510. See the Bill descriptions below. http://endingspending.com/earmark-ban/ We are having a Rally tomorrow at the Capital. Please see the details for the Rally and the Virtual Rally if you can't be here in person. This is just the beginning and we are charged up and ready to go!! See details here www.NovemberSpeaks.com Scheduled Weeks Monday thru Friday: November 15-19th (House and Senate*) Monday thru Friday November 3rd to December 3rd (House and Senate*) * The Senate has 3 cloture votes for the week of November 15th 1) S3815 the Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Bill 2) S3772 the Paycheck Fairness Bill 3) S 510 the Food Safety Bill (Recommend killing all three Bills) Must Pass - Appropriations Omnibus (CR expires December 3) (CR=Continueing Resolution) (Can we reduce this by a percentage?) - Doc Fix - Unemployment Insurance (Return to States) - TANF (expires December 4th) - FAA (Expires December 31st) - Highway (Expires December 31st) Reduce to 20% of State spending) Taxes 2001, 2003 (Individual, cap gains, dividends, exemptions, credits) - Extenders (R&D, State and Local etc..) - AMT Patch (additional 15 million taxpayers) - Death Tax Reinstatement and Retroactivity (return to 55%) - Offsets (carried interest, S Corps, international, etc) Deficit Commission Recommendations - 14 of 18 members must agree - Republicans Ryan, Camp, Hensarling, Gregg, Crapo, Coburn - Due December 1st Some suggestions..Return Unemployment to the States, reduce Continuing Resolution, reduce Highway Bill, Remove from Tax package business/jobs oriented funding for an over all lower across the board tax reduction. Hope to see you at www.NovemberSpeaks.com tomorrow. In Liberty, Lisa Miller Tea Party WDC www.TeaPartyWDC.ning.com PS: For those that want to call freshman Congressman, please email this to them as a means of them retaining their power and responsibility in the coming Congress: The following reforms can be enacted at the Party caucus level. Additional reforms can be adopted via House rule changes when a new Congress convenes in January. To balance power between Congressional leaders and non-leadership - and encourage greater responsiveness to the American people - rank and file Representatives should stop surrendering so much power to party leaders. THis can be accomplished as follows: - The Steering committee, rather than party leaders, should select all committee chairman and members (including Rules, Administration, "select" and "joint" committees) - Party leaders should no longer dominate or control the steering committee. In practice, this would dispense with the allotment of multiple steering committee slots to party leaders and would allowrank and file Representatives to nominate and elect the controlling votes on each steering committee. - Term limits should apply to all House and party leaders, including the Speaker, as well as the committee chairman and ranking members. - A cap should be placed on an overall size of each committee - such as a 50-member maximum - to avoid scenarios where committees wield a disproportionate amount of influence over the House. We recommend these reforms for BOTH parties. THey are pre-requisites to further reforms that could be accomplished via the House rules, which are not covered in this paper. An extra benefit from these reforms might be a less partisan Congress. Reducing the leverage held by party leaders could increase the ability of all Members to work across the aisle to seek solutions. Visit Tea Party WDC at: http://teapartywdc.ning.com/?xg_source=msg_mes_network To control which emails you receive on Tea Party WDC, click here<http://teapartywdc.ning.com/profiles/profile/emailSettings?xg_source=msg_mes_network> -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more.
