Rep Rush Holt's H.Res 363: Plame investigation bill -- please support

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Support Holt's Plame Investigation Bill


The BackBone Campaign (http://www.backbonecampaign.org) 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.

Current Co-Sponsors
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List of cosponsors as of 1120 PDT, October 3, 2005

Rep Abercrombie, Neil - 7/21/2005 Rep Ackerman, Gary L. - 7/22/2005
Rep Allen, Thomas H. - 7/21/2005 Rep Andrews, Robert E. - 7/14/2005
Rep Becerra, Xavier - 7/14/2005 Rep Berkley, Shelley - 7/21/2005
Rep Berman, Howard L. - 7/14/2005 Rep Bishop, Timothy H. - 7/14/2005
Rep Blumenauer, Earl - 7/14/2005 Rep Boswell, Leonard L. - 7/14/2005
Rep Capps, Lois - 7/14/2005 Rep Capuano, Michael E. - 7/14/2005
Rep Carson, Julia - 7/21/2005 Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 7/14/2005
Rep Clyburn, James E. - 7/14/2005 Rep Conyers, John, Jr. - 7/14/2005
Rep Cummings, Elijah E. - 7/21/2005 Rep Davis, Susan A. - 7/14/2005
Rep DeFazio, Peter A. - 7/14/2005 Rep Delahunt, William D. - 7/22/2005
Rep Doggett, Lloyd - 7/14/2005 Rep Doyle, Michael F. - 7/26/2005
Rep Eshoo, Anna G. - 7/14/2005 Rep Farr, Sam - 7/22/2005
Rep Frank, Barney - 7/21/2005 Rep Grijalva, Raul M. - 7/14/2005
Rep Gutierrez, Luis V. - 7/25/2005 Rep Hastings, Alcee L. - 7/14/2005
Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. - 7/21/2005 Rep Inslee, Jay - 7/14/2005
Rep Johnson, Eddie Bernice - 7/14/2005 Rep Kennedy, Patrick J. - 7/14/2005
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 7/22/2005 Rep Lantos, Tom - 7/14/2005
Rep Larson, John B. - 7/14/2005 Rep Lee, Barbara - 7/21/2005
Rep Maloney, Carolyn B. - 7/14/2005 Rep Markey, Edward J. - 7/14/2005
Rep Matsui, Doris O. - 7/14/2005 Rep McCarthy, Carolyn - 7/14/2005
Rep McCollum, Betty - 7/14/2005 Rep McDermott, Jim - 7/14/2005
Rep McGovern, James P. - 7/14/2005 Rep McNulty, Michael R. - 7/22/2005
Rep Meehan, Martin T. - 7/21/2005 Rep Miller, George - 7/14/2005
Rep Moran, James P. - 7/14/2005 Rep Nadler, Jerrold - 7/22/2005
Rep Neal, Richard E. - 7/22/2005 Rep Olver, John W. - 7/22/2005
Rep Owens, Major R. - 7/14/2005 Rep Pallone, Frank, Jr. - 7/14/2005
Rep Payne, Donald M. - 7/14/2005 Rep Price, David E. - 7/14/2005
Rep Rangel, Charles B. - 7/14/2005 Rep Reyes, Silvestre - 7/14/2005
Rep Ryan, Tim - 7/14/2005 Rep Sabo, Martin Olav - 7/21/2005
Rep Sanders, Bernard - 7/25/2005 Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 7/21/2005
Rep Schiff, Adam B. - 7/14/2005 Rep Scott, Robert C. - 7/14/2005
Rep Serrano, Jose E. - 7/14/2005 Rep Slaughter, Louise McIntosh - 7/21/2005
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 7/14/2005 Rep Tauscher, Ellen O. - 7/14/2005
Rep Thompson, Mike - 7/22/2005 Rep Tierney, John F. - 7/14/2005
Rep Udall, Mark - 7/22/2005 Rep Udall, Tom - 7/14/2005
Rep Van Hollen, Chris - 7/14/2005 Rep Visclosky, Peter J. - 7/22/2005
Rep Waters, Maxine - 7/14/2005 Rep Waxman, Henry A. - 7/14/2005
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 7/14/2005 Rep Wu, David - 7/14/2005

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