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Climate Debate
Blocked May Washington
Newsletter: Addressing Climate Change in
Congress
Dear
On June 6, a minority
of senators blocked efforts to bring legislation
to address harmful climate change to a vote. Find
out how your senators voted. As a result, the scheduled
Senate debate on climate change has ended before it even really
started.
Please also take a
moment to read the May
2008 FCNL Washington Newsletter,
which contains information you can use to communicate with Congress
about the urgent need for federal legislation to address harmful
climate change. The earth can't wait.
In the May newsletter
we at FCNL argue that "The
Phone is Ringing Now: Who Will Answer It?".
The call isn't about a terrorist attack, the emergency is climate
change. And it isn't just the responsibility of the next president to
answer; lawmakers, candidates, and voters alike need to pick up the
receiver and take action.
The
legislation the Senate tried to debate this week,
which was originally introduced by Senators Joe Lieberman (CT) and John
Warner (VA) (S. 2191), takes small steps against climate change but it
needs to go further. This
chart shows
how greenhouse gas emissions would be affected by
this legislation and other measures.
As always, you can
find updates on these and other issues at www.fcnl.org
Paul Collier:4 ways to improve the lives of the
"bottom billion"
Around the world right now, one billion people live in poverty because
of a simple piece of bad luck: they were born in
a poor or failing
country. What can be done? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold,
compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor -- and
makes the case that we must. Watch this talk >>
Seyi Oyesola:Rich hospital, poor hospital
Dr. Seyi Oyesola takes a searing look at health care in underdeveloped
countries. His photo tour of a Nigerian teaching hospital -- all
low-tech hacks and donated supplies -- drives home the challenge of
doing basic health care in poor countries. Watch this talk >>
'545 People' By Charlie Reese Politicians are the
only people in the world who create problems and
then campaign against them. Have you ever
wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans
are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever
wondered why, if all the politicians are against
inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes? You
and I don't propose a federal budget. The president does. You
and I
don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The
House of Representatives does. You and I don't write the tax code,
Congress does. You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does. You
and I don't control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank
does. One hundred senators,
435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme
Court justices -
545 human beings out of the 300 million - are directly, legally,
morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that
plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve
Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913,
Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency
to a federally chartered but private central bank. I excluded all the
special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal
authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a
president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if
they offer a
politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to
accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the
legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes. Those 545 human
beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is
not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive
amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker,
who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The
president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to
accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the
land,
gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for
originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is
the speaker
of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She
and fellow
House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If
the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree
to. It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million
can not
replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts - of
incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic
problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you
fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the
federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they
want to exist. If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it
unfair. If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the
red. If the Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement
plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
Contact: Craig Aaron, Free Press,(202)
265-1490 x 25,
Jen Howard, (202) 265-1490, x 22
WASHINGTON -- According to numerous press reports, Rupert
Murdoch’s
News Corp. is close to completing a $580 million deal to purchase the
Long Island daily Newsday from Tribune Company. S.
Derek Turner, research director of Free Press, made the following
statement:
"Completion
of this backroom deal between Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell would give
one company, News Corp., control of Newsday, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal,
and two TV stations in the New York market. And
that doesn't even take
into account Murdoch’s ownership of the Fox network, Fox News
Channel,
and all of his other holdings in cable TV, movies, local TV stations
and newspapers worldwide. That’s too much power in
too few hands.
“The
sale of Newsday to News Corp. is a clear
violation of
even the severely weakened FCC limits on how
much media one company can
own in one market. This sale should not be permitted under any
circumstances. New York, like the rest of America, needs more media
choices, viewpoints and competition -- not more
consolidation.”
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