Sedona AZ (September 23, 2010) – The SedonaEye.com received this Letter to the Editor regarding pending HR 4823 in the United States Congress sponsored by Arizona Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick, CD-1:
Dear Members and Friends! URGENT REQUEST TO HELP SAVE THE NSA BILL
Yesterday, the NSA Designation (HR 4823) was debated on the floor of the House of Congress, under rules of suspension. This was the only way our Congressional Representative, Ann Kirkpatrick, would have been able to move the Bill within the timeframe of this Congress. If the Bill does not move before the end of this Congress, it dies and the whole process has to be re-started. Under the rules of suspension, non-controversial bills can be debated with restricted discussion time and need to be passed by a two-thirds majority. Ann, together with support from the NSA Coalition, has set out from the start to show that this Bill had vast bipartisan support. It was hoped that the Bill, already passed unanimously out of committee, would be able to get the support it needed to pass. All was well, until yesterday evening when the Republicans requested a postponement of vote so that a full recorded vote could be taken. This can happen anytime now (today or tomorrow). At the same time, the Republican Leadership has asked its membership to vote against the Bill – to kill it.
I am asking each and every one of you to pick up your phone and call at least one of the following Republican Congressional Representatives in neighboring states and urge them to support this bi-partisan effort here in Sedona and the surrounding areas to protect the wonder of the Red Rocks. Let them know that we have been fighting for years to get an NSA Designation which would just do that – stop land exchanges within the National Forest Area! Tell them that it does NOT affect private lands and is just making permanent what already exists in the current National Forest Management Plan. Such a designation will encourage tourism and will help the economy of Sedona and the surroundings area.
Here is the list. I hope you can take a few moments today or early tomorrow and call some of these Republican Representatives.
Thank you,
Marlene Rayner
marlenerayner@yahoo.com
ARIZONA
Senator John McCain (R- AZ) | 202-224-2235 | 202-228-2862 | http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm? FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm |
Senator Jon Kyl (R- AZ) | 202-224-4521 | 202-224-2207 | http://kyl.senate.gov/contact.cfm |
Representative Trent Franks (R – 02) | 202-225-4576 | 202-225-6328 | https://franks.house.gov/contacts/new |
Representative John Shadegg (R – 03) | 202-225-3361 | 202-225-3462 | http://johnshadegg.house.gov/Contact/ContactForm.htm |
Representative Jeff Flake (R – 06) | 202-225-2635 | 202-226-4386 | https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml |
Colorado Delegation
Member Name | DC Phone | DC FAX | Electronic Correspondence |
Representative Doug Lamborn (R – 05) | 202-225-4422 | 202-226-2638 | http://lamborn.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=129 |
Representative Mike Coffman (R – 06) | 202-225-7882 | 202-226-4623 | http://forms.house.gov/coffman/webforms/issue_subscribe.htm |
CALIFORNIA
Wally Herger (202)225-2076
Daniel Lungren (202)225-5716
Tom McClintock (202)225-2511
George Radanovich (202)225-4540
Davin Nunes (202)225-2523
Kevin McCarthy (202)225-2915
Elton Gallegly (202)225-5811
Howard McKeon (202)225-1956
David Brelow 202-225-2305
Edward Royce 202-225-4111
Jerry Lewis 202-225-5861
Ken Calvert 202-225-1936
Mary Bono Mack 202-225-5330
Dana Rohrbacher 202-225-2415
John Campbell 202-225-5611
Darrell Issa 202-225-3906
Brian Bilbray 202-225-0508
Duncan Hunter 202-225-5672
NEVADA
District 2: | Dean Heller (R) | |
Phone Number: | DC: 202-225-6155 | District: 775-686-5760 |
E Mail: | http://heller.house.gov/zipauth.shtml | |
Address: | 125 Cannon – House Office Building | |
UTAH
Jason Chaffetz
Washington Office:
1032 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-7751
Fax: (202) 225-5629
Web site: http://chaffetz.house.gov/
Rob Bishop
Washington Office:
124 Cannon Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-0453
Fax: (202) 225-5857
I have called both of my Senators, again. I have expressed my reasons for their NO vote to the passage of NSA Designation (HR 4823). We don’t need any more Federal Govenment management of anything in our lives!
I am confident that HR- 4823 will die, and hopefully have a stake thought it’s heart.
Ed Hanley
Sedona