Call your Senators, Harry Reid & Durbin,& tell them:Stop the Real ID Act

[genius]

Capitol Switchboard 202-224-3121

Leaders
Harry Reid's Las Vegas Office 702-388-5020
Dick Durbin's Illinois Office 312-353-4952


Swing votes
While your at it, call Lieberman and tell him all Jewish organizations oppose this Act. Hartford: 860-549-8463

Also, Chafee's number is 312-353-4952

Jefford's number is : 802-223-5273

Ben Nelson is at 402-441-4600

Ken Salazar is at 303-455-7600

Mary Landrieu is at 504-589-2426

From Patrickhenrythinktank.org, these are some of the organizations opposing the ACT. When the Garden Club of America knows more about legislation than our legislators, that's pretty bad.

The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

Association of the Bar of New York City

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

American Immigrant Lawyers Association

Amnesty International

Anti-Defamation League

Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee

The Bill of Rights Defense Committee

B’Nai B’Rith International

Catholic Charities USA

Center for Community Change

Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law

Church World Service

The Civil Rights Coalition for the 21st Century

The Council of State Governments

The Episcopal Church

Episcopal Migration Ministries

Fair Immigration Reform Movement

Families for Freedom

The Garden Club of America

Gun Owners of America

The Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

HIAS and Counsel Migration Service of Philadelphia

Human Rights First

Immigrant Solidarity Network

Institute on Religion and Public Policy

Jesuit Refuge Service

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

Jewish Labor Committee

Jubilee Campaign

Korean Resource Center (KRC)

Labor Council for Latin American Development

League of United Latin American Citizens

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights

Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Midland Alliances

Midland Association of Churches

Midland Ministerial Alliance

National Korean American Service and Education Consortium (NAKASEC)

The National Conference of State Legislatures

National Council of Jewish Woman

National Council of La Raza

The National Governors Association

National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

National Resources Defense Council

National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium

National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

National Association of International Educators

National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund (NALEO)

The National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

New York Immigration Coalition

National Immigration Forum

Patrick Henry Democratic Club

People for the American Way

Progressive Democrats of America

Project for International Religious Liberty

Religious Freedom Coalition

Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico

Rights Working Group2

Sierra Club

September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Women’s Commission for Refuge Women and Children

Working Families Activist Network

Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring

World Relief


One group has already asked Reid to stop act or resign his leadership position (From patrickhenrythinktank.org):

RESOLUTION FOR HARRY REID TO STOP PATRIOT III (AKA THE REAL ID ACT, THE REAL DEATH CAMP ACT, HR 418) OR RESIGN



WHEREAS, Harry Reid ignored the wishes of millions of Democrats throughout America and led the Senate Democrats in backing John Negroponte, a man connected to death squads that killed nuns and children in Central America; Reid also ignored concerns about Yucca Mountain when he backed Samuel Bodman as Secretary of Energy, ignored concerns about Michael Chertoff’s support for water-board torture, when he backed Chertoff for Secretary of Homeland Security, and ignored Condoleezza Rice’s false statements that helped leads to a war that killed over 1300 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, when Reid backed Rice for Secretary of State, and



WHEREAS, Harry Reid put the interests of the credit card companies ahead of the welfare of the elderly, the disabled, children, the unemployed, and those in need of medical attention when he voted for the bankruptcy bill, and



WHEREAS, Harry Reid has stated that the Real ID Act (aka Patriot III, the Real Death Camp Act, HR 418), a law that guts the Constitution by placing the Secretary of Homeland Security above the Constitution and the law, endangers the health, safety and very lives of all Americans, effectively ends all future grants of political asylum and creates the basis for a national ID card, similar to the ones issued in NAZI Germany,



THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club calls on Harry Reid to stop backing the extremist policies of George W. Bush, a man committed to destroying the Constitution and to establishing an aristocracy and calls on Harry Reid instead to protect the American people from the kind of tyranny and terrorism planned by George W. Bush and the Republicans.



THEREFORE BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Patrick Henry Democratic Club calls on Harry Reid to mount a successful opposition to the Real ID Act (aka Patriot III, the Real Death Camp Act, HR 418) or to resign his Senate leadership position and back one of the Democratic Senators who has shown the courage to oppose the Bush agenda for minority leader.



Passed unanimously on April 26, 2005.

[dbeach]

1. Chafee phone is 202 224-2951

Thanx for psoting this ..I called Durbin and Chaffee and said this real ID is a police state that wants to happen and its not going to protect any of us..I get punished with losing my freedoms cuz terrist hit us on 9/11.I further said that the real ID is designed to enrich bush and his pals by taking more money from the middle class..
I also said that I am an honorably discharged VN Combat Veteran who does have ALL his official documents unlike this pres who can't seem to produce any military records of importance.

I also said that I intend to surf my way through the Apocalypse and see ya at the beach!! HA HA![My home is 2 miles from a great beach in RI}

[genius]

2. Also, Bill Nelson could be a swing vote

407-872-7161

[Mass]

3. I am not sure there are swing votes on this issue

From what I heard, most Senators consider voting for the supplemental conference report, that includes the supplemental. Are there any senators who have said otherwise at this point.

The point being that it is important to call everybody, starting by Reid and Durbin, to make clear this is a problem.