(Lake Tuscaloosa Specific)
11 messages
Updated 11/6/2023 3:02:24 AM
Lakes Online Forum
83,645 messages
Updated 5/30/2024 11:45:00 PM
Lakes Online Forum
5,195 messages
Updated 5/31/2024 4:36:53 AM
(Lake Tuscaloosa Specific)
6 messages
Updated 6/30/2008 7:08:16 PM
Lakes Online Forum
4,169 messages
Updated 4/15/2024 11:05:05 PM
Lakes Online Forum
4,261 messages
Updated 5/28/2024 6:31:10 AM
Lakes Online Forum
2,976 messages
Updated 3/20/2024 11:53:43 PM
Lakes Online Forum
98 messages
Updated 4/15/2024 1:00:58 AM
|
|
|
This link will connect you to each US senators web page or phone number. Do not be discouraged if the number is busy or full. Look at their web pages and you will see additional numbers for each of their district offices. You will be able to reach one of these and let them know how you feel.
Today's favorite choices are: Snowe, Specter and Collins.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
|
| Name: |
lotowner
- 
|
|
| Subject: |
Need to contact a senator?
|
|
Date:
|
2/9/2009 10:33:40 AM
|
Thanks so much for this information. We all need to use the power of the internet to make sure that our thoughts are at least registered.
|
| Name: |
MrHodja
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Specter's Doesn't Work
|
|
Date:
|
2/9/2009 12:08:49 PM
|
But I did email Collins and Snowe letting them know my strong objections to the bill as written.
If anyone knows how I can email Specter, please let me know.
|
| Name: |
au67
-
|
|
| Subject: |
Specter's Doesn't Work
|
|
Date:
|
2/9/2009 1:33:40 PM
|
I think he's shut things down due to the heavy traffic today.
|
His site crashed. The other two you can access and either e-mail or call. It is working. they are announcing it on fox news that they are being flooded with calls. I called the independents as well.
|
Contact
Office Locations
Home
Washington DC
711 Hart Building
Washington , DC 20510
Main: 202-224-4254
Fax: 202-228-1229
Map this | Directions To
Lehigh Valley
504 W. Hamilton
Suite 3814, Federal Building
Allentown, PA 18101
Main: 610-434-1444
Fax: 610-434-1844
Map this | Directions To
Erie
17 South Park Row
Federal Building, Suite B-120
Erie, PA 16501
Main: 814-453-3010
Fax: 814-455-9925
Map this | Directions To
|
The mailboxes are full, but the fax works if you wish to fax them your comments.
|
If you type in www.specter.senate.gov his page will open and you can send an e-mail this way.
|
Specter Comments on the Stimulus Package Substitute
Washington, D.C.
Friday, February 6, 2009 -
U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) today made the following comments on the floor of the United States Senate concerning a substitute proposal to the stimulus package:
Madame President, I begin with the enormously serious economic problems facing the United States: an unemployment rate which is rising, 2.8 million jobs lost last year, thousands of people losing their jobs every day, and recognizing the very heavy psychological factor which is at work, cited for the destruction of consumer confidence. The eyes and the ears of the world are on the United States, on the United States government, and on the United States Senate tonight to see whether we will be able to respond to the magnitude of the problem. The psychological impact if we were to reject some activist approach, I think, would be devastating not only on Wall Street and Main Street but all across the face of the globe.
Based on the telephone calls which I’ve gotten in my office, this is a very unpopular vote. Perhaps the tide will turn, but the calls are mounting from one end of the political spectrum saying there are too many expenditures, and the calls are mounting on the other end of the political spectrum saying that there is not enough money being spent on proposals which we are advancing here tonight. Perhaps the tide will turn upon reflection and on analysis of the program which we’re setting forth here.
Perhaps the tide will turn as exemplified by a letter issued today from the United States Chamber of Commerce, a principal spokesman for corporate America and a principal spokesman for conservative America. The Chamber says this: they’re for this legislation because the economy continues to deteriorate. The Chamber is for the bill because it supports pro-growth tax initiatives. The Chamber is for the bill because it applauds the inclusion of tax relief. The Chamber is for the bill because many of the spending-side provisions in the legislation will also provide stimulus to get Americans back to work, focusing on infrastructure spending for roads, rails, public transportation, aviation, inland waterways and ports.
I have already noted certain grave concerns which I have. One is the rush to judgment which we’re a part of. And perhaps a necessary part, when President Obama came to speak to the Republican caucus recently, when my turn came to ask a question, I said “why are you wedded to February 13th? That’s too fast to digest a bill of this magnitude.” I said that we had passed a $700 billion bailout bill, TARP, where we didn’t know what was in the bill, and we didn’t have regular order, hearings, questions, cross-examination, or committee work on the markup line-by-line of the committee report. We didn’t even have floor debate. We made a lot of mistakes. They were compounded by the administration carrying it out.
I voted against the release of the second $350 billion. I said, Mr. President, let’s not do it again. There is nothing magical about February 13th before we start the week of recess for President’s Day. The President responded, emphasizing the severe nature of the problem and telling us all, which he has told us privately, about the serious problems which he sees, which his advisors see with any delay at all. So we are responding to his timetable. I don’t like it, but I’m responding to it.
There are other aspects of this bill which give me heartburn. There is a lot in this bill which ought to be part of the regular Appropriations process. I served for 10 years as Chairman of the subcommittee funding the Departments of Health and Human Services and Education. I have fought hard for many of the items that are in this bill that ought not to be in this bill. They ought to be part of the regular appropriations process where we set an overall budget and we fight it out on priorities. But they’re here because the administration and the bill proposed by the Committee has seen fit to include them.
What have we accomplished here in the amendment which is being offered now? This bill coming to the floor, and these figures are pretty close - they’re hard to be exact - but the bill starts with $885 billion. There are add-ons on the floor of $29.5 billion. The bill as it’s being reported is $781, perhaps $780. So we have reduced the expenditures by $105 billion. That’s a lot of money. And that is something which makes everybody angry.
But that’s the position you’re in if you’re a United States Senator. People are unhappy because they didn’t get the full amount from the Committee report, although absent this bill they get zero additional. People are unhappy about spending too much money, but it is imperative, as I see it, that we do something very, very substantial.
There are reasons to argue that this is a bad bill. I’m not saying it’s a bad bill; I’m saying there are reasons to argue that it’s a bad bill. But I do not believe that there is any doubt that the economy would be enormously worse off without it. That’s the kind of a choice we have to make.
Personally I would prefer not to be on the edge of the pin as so frequently is the case in this body. But I do believe that we have to act, and I believe that under all of the circumstances, this is the best we can do and we ought to do it.
|
|
|
New Post
Search
Off-Topic Forum
Reply
»
Alabama Lakes
»
Lake Tuscaloosa
Login
|
Home
