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The latest battle in the healthcare war is being waged using a new strategy — the circumvention of the intent, spirit, and true definition of the legislative process by supplementing the already-passed Senate health care bill with a second bill to modify the Senate bill as per President Obama’s most recent health care proposal. Congressional Democrats propose that the House pass the Senate bill, then have both houses pass this second bill by means of the budget reconciliation process. The 1974 reconciliation method is the perfect vehicle to navigate around certain obstacles like a Republican filibuster. Besides, the budget reconciliation process only requires a 51-vote majority in the Senate and limits debate to 20 hours.

The President’s Proposal has had no official cost analysis completed but the White House estimates that the plan would cost about $950 billion over 10 years. The plan would extend coverage to more than 31 million Americans by 2019. And the excise tax to help pay for this latest unconstitutional, healthcare budget buster would be delayed for insurers and employers until 2018.

The role of federal regulators, czars and overseers would be expanded in order to review and block premium increases by private companies. The federal government would be able to supersede the authority of the states if it so chooses, which is another intrusion into what has historically and constitutionally been reserved to the states.

The broad language pertaining to abortion funding in the Senate version remains in the president’s version as government officials “believe they cannot make changes to the Senate language on abortion” when using budget reconciliation.

Nonetheless, passage of Obama’s personal plan for the nation’s health care may not be achieved as easily as originally planned, given the political climate and the resurgence of constitutional awareness.

This is a crucial issue at a crucial time and it is up to each and every one of us to relentlessly persevere in contacting our elected representatives to insist they vote “no” on any unconstitutional, government-run healthcare plan, no matter how many times it is presented and re-presented to us.

Send an email opposing Obama’s health care plan to your senators and representative. Click here for contact information for visiting, phoning, and faxing them. (Click here for how your senators voted on their health care bill on December 24. Click here for how your representative voted on the House health care bill on November 7.)

Thank you,

Your friends at The John Birch Society

FOXNews.com

The head of C-SPAN has implored Congress to open up the last leg of health care reform negotiations to the public, as top Democrats lay plans to hash out the final product among themselves.

C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb wrote to leaders in the House and Senate Dec. 30 urging them to open “all important negotiations, including any conference committee meetings,” to televised coverage on his network.

“The C-SPAN networks will commit the necessary resources to covering all of the sessions LIVE and in their entirety,” he wrote.

In a Tuesday afternoon press conference on health legislation negotiations, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared to object to the premise behind the request.

“There has never been a more open process for any legislation in anyone who’s served here’s experience,” she said.

However, Republican leaders sided with C-SPAN’s calls for transparency.

“As House Republican leader, I can confidently state that all House Republicans strongly endorse your proposal and stand ready to work with you to make it a reality,” Minority Leader John Boehner wrote in response to the letter. “Hard-working families won’t stand for having the future of their health care decided behind closed doors. These secret deliberations are a breeding ground for more of the kickbacks, shady deals and special-interest provisions that have become business as usual in Washington.”

Democratic leaders could bypass the traditional conference committee process, in which lawmakers from both parties and chambers meet to reconcile differences between the House and Senate versions of a bill. Top Democrats in the House, Senate and White House were meeting Tuesday evening to figure out the final product in three-way talks before sending it back to both chambers for a final vote.

“We don’t even know yet whether there’s going to be a conference,” Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen said responding to a question about the C-SPAN request. “It’s not clear whether or not that’s going to happen yet.”

This format would seem ideal for closed-door meetings, which congressional Democrats have used many times to figure out sensitive provisions in the health care bill — though President Obama pledged during the campaign to open up health care talks to C-SPAN’s cameras.

“That’s what I will do in bringing all parties together, not negotiating behind closed doors, but bringing all parties together, and broadcasting those negotiations on C-SPAN so that the American people can see what the choices are,” Obama said at a debate against Hillary Clinton in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2008.

Asked about the request to Congress, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he hadn’t seen the letter.

“I know the president is going to begin discussions today on health care to iron out differences between the House and Senate bills,” he said.

Lamb urged Congress in his letter to fling open the doors in the final stretch of the negotiations.

“President Obama, Senate and House leaders, many of your rank-and-file members, and the nation’s editorial pages have all talked about the value of transparent discussions on reforming the nation’s health care system,” he wrote. “Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the chambers, we respectfully request that you allow the public full access, through television, to legislation that will affect the lives of every single American.”

Lamb said his network would use “the latest technology” to be “as unobtrusive as possible” during the talks.

Next week, Congress will vote on President Obama’s plan to escalate the war in Afghanistan. These wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been going on almost a decade. There are first and second graders in this country who have never known an America at peace. To them, America is always at war.

President Obama inspired us in his run for President with his message of peace. He told Iowans about his courageous stance against the war in Iraq, “I opposed this war from the beginning. I opposed the war in 2002. I opposed the war in 2003. I opposed it in 2004 and 2005 and 2006.”

This is why Obama was elected: to bring peace and prosperity to our country.

Obama told the people in Illinois who elected him to the Senate, that “the consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not – we will not – travel down that hellish path blindly.”

He told us that we should “not stay the course or take the conventional path because the other course is unknown.” These are the words of a man of peace, and I believe that we can remind the President that he can be that man of peace.

Help me remind the President of something very basic: Peace is good, and war is bad. I’ve set up a site at www.TiredOfWar.com where you can send the White House a message, written using his own words and some of your own, that peace is good.

We do not want to join a battle to occupy a foreign country indefinitely, no matter how much the military-industrial establishment may press for it. General Petraeus already said in May that Al Qaeda doesn’t even operate in Afghanistan any more, and President Karzai agreed.

But we do want to join the battles that President Obama told us about before he became President, the battles, he said, “against ignorance and intolerance, corruption and greed, poverty and despair.” Those are the battles that, “we willingly join.”

Click here to send your message to the White House now.

www.TiredOfWar.com

We will end these wars. It’s going to take time, but we will bring peace to America.

Mr. President, be the President that we voted for, the President that you promised to be. We agree with you that we should not “travel down this hellish path blindly.”  It is time to come home.

Regards,

Alan Grayson
Member of US Congress

Statement of Congressman Ron Paul
United States House of Representatives

Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act

December 9, 2009

Madame Speaker, I rise to introduce the Free Competition in Currency Act of 2009. Currency, or money, is what allows civilization to flourish. In the absence of money, barter is the name of the game; if the farmer needs shoes, he must trade his eggs and milk to the cobbler and hope that the cobbler needs eggs and milk. Money makes the transaction process far easier. Rather than having to search for someone with reciprocal wants, the farmer can exchange his milk and eggs for an agreed-upon medium of exchange with which he can then purchase shoes.

This medium of exchange should satisfy certain properties: it should be durable, that is to say, it does not wear out easily; it should be portable, that is, easily carried; it should be divisible into units usable for every-day transactions; it should be recognizable and uniform, so that one unit of money has the same properties as every other unit; it should be scarce, in the economic sense, so that the extant supply does not satisfy the wants of everyone demanding it; it should be stable, so that the value of its purchasing power does not fluctuate wildly; and it should be reproducible, so that enough units of money can be created to satisfy the needs of exchange.

Over millennia of human history, gold and silver have been the two metals that have most often satisfied these conditions, survived the market process, and gained the trust of billions of people. Gold and silver are difficult to counterfeit, a property which ensures they will always be accepted in commerce. It is precisely for this reason that gold and silver are anathema to governments. A supply of gold and silver that is limited in supply by nature cannot be inflated, and thus serves as a check on the growth of government. Without the ability to inflate the currency, governments find themselves constrained in their actions, unable to carry on wars of aggression or to appease their overtaxed citizens with bread and circuses.

At this country’s founding, there was no government controlled national currency. While the Constitution established the Congressional power of minting coins, it was not until 1792 that the US Mint was formally established. In the meantime, Americans made do with foreign silver and gold coins. Even after the Mint’s operations got underway, foreign coins continued to circulate within the United States, and did so for several decades.

On the desk in my office I have a sign that says: “Don’t steal – the government hates competition.” Indeed, any power a government arrogates to itself, it is loathe to give back to the people. Just as we have gone from a constitutionally-instituted national defense consisting of a limited army and navy bolstered by militias and letters of marque and reprisal, we have moved from a system of competing currencies to a government-instituted banking cartel that monopolizes the issuance of currency. In order to reintroduce a system of competing currencies, there are three steps that must be taken to produce a legal climate favorable to competition.

The first step consists of eliminating legal tender laws. Article I Section 10 of the Constitution forbids the States from making anything but gold and silver a legal tender in payment of debts. States are not required to enact legal tender laws, but should they choose to, the only acceptable legal tender is gold and silver, the two precious metals that individuals throughout history and across cultures have used as currency. However, there is nothing in the Constitution that grants the Congress the power to enact legal tender laws. We, the Congress, have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, but not to declare a legal tender. Yet, there is a section of US Code, 31 USC 5103, that purports to establish US coins and currency, including Federal Reserve notes, as legal tender.

Historically, legal tender laws have been used by governments to force their citizens to accept debased and devalued currency. Gresham’s Law describes this phenomenon, which can be summed up in one phrase: bad money drives out good money. An emperor, a king, or a dictator might mint coins with half an ounce of gold and force merchants, under pain of death, to accept them as though they contained one ounce of gold. Each ounce of the king’s gold could now be minted into two coins instead of one, so the king now had twice as much “money” to spend on building castles and raising armies. As these legally overvalued coins circulated, the coins containing the full ounce of gold would be pulled out of circulation and hoarded. We saw this same phenomenon happen in the mid-1960s when the US government began to mint subsidiary coinage out of copper and nickel rather than silver. The copper and nickel coins were legally overvalued, the silver coins undervalued in relation, and silver coins vanished from circulation.

These actions also give rise to the most pernicious effects of inflation. Most of the merchants and peasants who received this devalued currency felt the full effects of inflation, the rise in prices and the lowered standard of living, before they received any of the new currency. By the time they received the new currency, prices had long since doubled, and the new currency they received would give them no benefit.

In the absence of legal tender laws, Gresham’s Law no longer holds. If people are free to reject debased currency, and instead demand sound money, sound money will gradually return to use in society. Merchants would have been free to reject the king’s coin and accept only coins containing full metal weight.

The second step to reestablishing competing currencies is to eliminate laws that prohibit the operation of private mints. One private enterprise which attempted to popularize the use of precious metal coins was Liberty Services, the creators of the Liberty Dollar. Evidently the government felt threatened, as Liberty Dollars had all their precious metal coins seized by the FBI and Secret Service in November of 2007. Of course, not all of these coins were owned by Liberty Services, as many were held in trust as backing for silver and gold certificates which Liberty Services issued. None of this matters, of course, to the government, which hates competition. The responsibility to protect contracts is of no interest to the government.

The sections of US Code which Liberty Services is accused of violating are erroneously considered to be anti-counterfeiting statutes, when in fact their purpose was to shut down private mints that had been operating in California. California was awash in gold in the aftermath of the 1849 gold rush, yet had no US Mint to mint coinage. There was not enough foreign coinage circulating in California either, so private mints stepped into the breech to provide their own coins. As was to become the case in other industries during the Progressive era, the private mints were eventually accused of circulating debased (substandard) coinage, and with the supposed aim of providing government-sanctioned regulation and a government guarantee of purity, the 1864 Coinage Act was passed, which banned private mints from producing their own coins for circulation as currency.

The final step to ensuring competing currencies is to eliminate capital gains and sales taxes on gold and silver coins. Under current federal law, coins are considered collectibles, and are liable for capital gains taxes. Short-term capital gains rates are at income tax levels, up to 35 percent, while long-term capital gains taxes are assessed at the collectibles rate of 28 percent. Furthermore, these taxes actually tax monetary debasement. As the dollar weakens, the nominal dollar value of gold increases. The purchasing power of gold may remain relatively constant, but as the nominal dollar value increases, the federal government considers this an increase in wealth, and taxes accordingly. Thus, the more the dollar is debased, the more capital gains taxes must be paid on holdings of gold and other precious metals.

Just as pernicious are the sales and use taxes which are assessed on gold and silver at the state level in many states. Imagine having to pay sales tax at the bank every time you change a $10 bill for a roll of quarters to do laundry. Inflation is a pernicious tax on the value of money, but even the official numbers, which are massaged downwards, are only on the order of 4% per year. Sales taxes in many states can take away 8% or more on every single transaction in which consumers wish to convert their Federal Reserve Notes into gold or silver.

In conclusion, Madame Speaker, allowing for competing currencies will allow market participants to choose a currency that suits their needs, rather than the needs of the government. The prospect of American citizens turning away from the dollar towards alternate currencies will provide the necessary impetus to the US government to regain control of the dollar and halt its downward spiral. Restoring soundness to the dollar will remove the government’s ability and incentive to inflate the currency, and keep us from launching unconstitutional wars that burden our economy to excess. With a sound currency, everyone is better off, not just those who control the monetary system. I urge my colleagues to consider the redevelopment of a system of competing currencies and cosponsor the Free Competition in Currency Act.

SCHRODER ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY FOR CONGRESS

State Representative Curt Schroder running to serve the 6th Congressional District

Downingtown, PA –State Representative Curt Schroder today announced that he is seeking the Republican nomination for the 6th Congressional District that includes portions of Chester, Berks, Lehigh, and Montgomery counties.

“I have decided to enter this race to ensure that the values that built our country remain for our children, that we encourage the policies of entrepreneurism, limited government and to preserve the economic future of our nation,” said Curt Schroder.

Schroder added, “America’s greatness comes from free enterprise and hard working families, not government bailouts and bureaucracy. I will bring my passion for public service and Pennsylvania values to Washington to better our community and nation.”

As a life long resident of Chester County, Curt grew up in the Downingtown area and now raises his family in East Brandywine Township. Curt and his wife Deanna have two kids, Mark and Kristen. Curt’s life long devotion to Chester County motivates him to be a zealous advocate for the best interests of his community.

Raised in a blue collar, middle class family, Curt Schroder understands the pressures of raising a family and making ends meet on a limited budget. After graduating from Downingtown High School in 1979, Curt attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP). Summers were spent working in the steamy environs of the Davey Paper Company where he earned money for the next year of college. After graduating from IUP in 1983, Curt went to Widener School of Law’s evening division in Wilmington Delaware at night while working for the Philadelphia law firm German, Gallagher and Murtagh during the day. Schroder practiced law with German, Gallagher after graduating
law school and passing the bar exam.

First elected to the State House in 1994, Schroder has been an effective advocate for legislative issues and a champion for our communities in Harrisburg. During his time in the legislature, Curt has been a leader in many issues including healthcare and government reform. Schroder lead efforts to reform medical malpractice and preserve our healthcare system. Schroder also spearheaded efforts to reform the PA General Assembly and preserve the secret ballot rights of workers.

Schroder believes strongly in community service and serves in a number of community organizations. He serves on the Boards of Brandywine Hospital and Brandywine YMCA. He previously served on the Chester County Drug and Alcohol Advisory Board and as a
member of the East Brandywine Township Planning Commission.

Curt Schroder has received numerous honors for his work in the House and here at home. He was presented with Leadership Awards from both the Hospital and Healthcare Association of Pennsylvania (HAP) and the Delaware Valley Health Care Council, the 2004 Friend of Family Medicine Award from the Academy of Family Physicians, and
Legislator of the Year from the Pennsylvania Orthopedic Society.

Curt received the first Matthew J. Ryan Legislator of the Year Award in 2004 from the Chester County Chamber Foundation. He was named Legislator of the Year by the TriCounty Chamber of Commerce in 2002 and again in 2006. Schroder was honored as the Outstanding Citizen of the Year in 1998 by the Downingtown Chamber of Commerce
for his work in revitalizing the Borough. In 2007, Curt was named the first recipient of the Sen. Robert. J. Thompson Public Service Award by the Exton Region Chamber of Commerce and was also presented with the Citizenship Award from the Pennsylvania VFW for his commitment to fostering patriotism. More recently Curt Schroder received recognition from the Upper Uwchlan and West Vincent Township Police Departments for his work on the Route 100 Safety Corridor Project.

As our next Congressman Curt looks to continue to work for responsible budgets, low taxes, and limited government so that our country and community can encourage job creation and retain the liberty and freedom for our children’s future.

Curt Schroder believes that government must live within its means and unleash the productive forces of the private sector to lead the way to economic recovery. “This binge of bailouts and borrowing will come to an end if I have anything to say about it!” concluded Schroder.

http://www.vote4curt.com/

Pelosi Rams ObamaCare Down America’s Throat!

Higher Premium Costs And Taxes Are The ONLY Sure Thing!
Obama, Pelosi and the Democrats have shut Americans out of the Healthcare debate and ready or not THEY ARE PUSHING FOR A FINAL OBAMACARE VOTE THIS WEEK without debate.

The Final Bill Announced Monday November 2, 2009 is scheduled for a vote just 3 days later on Thursday November 5, 2009.

The 3 DAY LEGISLATION is calculated to buy off as many Congressmen as possible to win a bare majority of 218 votes. Pelosi is determined that she will Ram ObamaCare Down America’s Throat!

But the legislation leaves unanswered many of questions that will determine perhaps dozens of votes. The final timing and outcome of the vote is in question.

We must STOP Pelosi and her dangerous and destructive plan NOW!

Pelosi is giving the Rules Committee the bums rush and it has yet to meet to consider the structure for the healthcare bill debate, They call it a “manager’s amendment” and it will SERVE AS THE VEHICLE FOR THOSE LAST-MINUTE DEALS NEGOTIATED TO GUARANTEE ADDITIONAL VOTES.

It is all a big game to Pelosi to rollout the 1,900-page bill not even reviewed by the CBO that has produced even more questions about its costs and its ability to reduce the deficit. Initial REPORTS FROM CAPITAL HILL SHOW DISAPPOINTMENT FROM LIBERAL AND CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS alike about what is in the bill and what’s been left out.

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The House Republican Conference has compiled the following list of 111 NEW BOARDS, bureaucracies, commissions, and programs created in H.R. 3962, Speaker Pelosi’s government takeover of health care:
* Retiree Reserve Trust Fund (Section 111(d), p. 61)
* Grant program for wellness programs to small employers (Section 112, p. 62)
* Grant program for State health access programs (Section 114, p. 72)
* Program of administrative simplification (Section 115, p. 76)
* Health Benefits Advisory Committee (Section 223, p. 111)
* Health Choices Administration (Section 241, p. 131)
* Qualified Health Benefits Plan Ombudsman (Section 244, p. 138)
* Health Insurance Exchange (Section 201, p. 155)
* Technical assistance to employees of small businesses buying Exchange coverage (Section 305(h), p. 191)
* Insurance risk pooling to be established by Health Choices Commissioner (Section 306(b), p. 194)
* Health Insurance Exchange Trust Fund (Section 307, p. 195)
* State-based Health Insurance Exchanges (Section 308, p. 197)
* Grant program for health insurance cooperatives (Section 310, p. 206)
* “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321, p. 211)
* Ombudsman for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 321(d), p. 213)
* Account for receipts and disbursements for “Public Health Insurance Option” (Section 322(b), p. 215)
* Tele health Advisory Committee (Section 1191 (b), p. 589)
* Demonstration program providing for “culturally and linguistically appropriate services” (Sec 1222, p. 617)
* Demonstration program for shared decision making using patient decision aids (Section 1236, p. 648)
* Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicare (Section 1301, p. 653)
* Independent patient-centered medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302, p. 672)
* Community-based medical home pilot program under Medicare (Section 1302(d), p. 681)
* Independence at home demonstration program (Section 1312, p. 718)
* Center for Comparative Effectiveness Research (Section 1401(a), p. 734)
* Comparative Effectiveness Research Commission (Section 1401(a), p. 738)
* Patient ombudsman for comparative effectiveness research (Section 1401(a), p. 753)
* Q/A and performance improvement program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(1), p. 784)
* Q/A and performance improvement program for nursing facilities (Section 1412 (b)(2), p. 786)
* Special focus facility program for skilled nursing facilities (Section 1413(a)(3), p. 796)
* Special focus facility program for nursing facilities (Section 1413(b)(3), p. 804)
* Independent monitor pilot program for skilled nursing facilities and nursing facilities (Section 1422, p. 859)
* Demonstration program for approved teaching health centers for Medicare GME (Section 1502(d), p. 933)
* Pilot program to develop anti-fraud compliance systems for Medicare providers (Section 1635, p. 978)
* Special Inspector General for the Health Insurance Exchange (Section 1647, p. 1000)
* Medical home pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1722, p. 1058)
* Accountable Care Organization pilot program under Medicaid (Section 1730A, p. 1073)
* Nursing facility supplemental payment program (Section 1745, p. 1106)
* Demonstration program for Medicaid medical conditions for mental diseases (Sec 1787, p. 1149)
* Comparative Effectiveness Research Trust Fund (Section 1802, p. 1162)
* “Identifiable office or program” for “coordination between Medicare and Medicaid” (Section 1905, p. 1191)
* Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Section 1907, p. 1198)
* Public Health Investment Fund (Section 2002, p. 1214)
* Scholarships for service in health professional needs areas (Section 2211, p. 1224)
* Program for training medical residents in community-based settings (Section 2214, p. 1236)
* Grant program for training in dentistry programs (Section 2215, p. 1240)
* Public Health Workforce Corps (Section 2231, p. 1253)
* Public health workforce scholarship program (Section 2231, p. 1254)
* Public health workforce loan forgiveness program (Section 2231, p. 1258)
* Grant program for innovations in interdisciplinary care (Section 2252, p. 1272)
* Advisory Committee on Health Workforce Evaluation and Assessment (Section 2261, p. 1275)
* Prevention and Wellness Trust (Section 2301, p. 1286)
* Clinical Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1295)
* Community Prevention Stakeholders Board (Section 2301, p. 1301)
* Grant program for community prevention and wellness research (Section 2301, p. 1305)
* Grant program for research and demonstration projects for wellness incentives (Section 2301, p. 1305)
* Grant program for community prevention and wellness services (Section 2301, p. 1308)
* Grant program for public health infrastructure (Section 2301, p. 1313)
* Center for Quality Improvement (Section 2401, p. 1322)
* Assistant Secretary for Health Information (Section 2402, p. 1330)
* Grant program to support the operation of school-based health clinics (Section 2511, p. 1352)
* Grant program for nurse-managed health centers (Section 2512, p. 1361)
* Grants for labor-management programs for nursing training (Section 2521, p. 1372)
* Grant program for interdisciplinary mental and behavioral health training (Section 2522, p. 1382)
* “No Child Left Unimmunized Against Influenza” demonstration grant program (Section 2524, p. 1391)
* Healthy Teen Initiative grant program regarding teen pregnancy (Section 2526, p. 1398)
* Grant program for interdisciplinary training, education, and services for autism (Section 2527(a), p. 1402)
* University centers for excellence in developmental disabilities education (Section 2527(b), p. 1410)
* Grant program to implement medication therapy management services (Section 2528, p. 1412)
* Grant program to promote positive health behaviors in underserved communities (Section 2530, p. 1422)
* Grant program for State alternative medical liability laws (Section 2531, p. 1431)
* Grant program to develop infant mortality programs (Section 2532, p. 1433)
* Grant program to prepare secondary school students for health care training (Section 2533, p. 1437)
* Grant program for community-based collaborative care (Section 2534, p. 1440)
* Grant program for community-based overweight and obesity prevention (Section 2535, p. 1457)
* Grant program for reducing the student-to-school nurse ratio (Section 2536, p. 1462)
* Demonstration project of grants to medical-legal partnerships (Section 2537, p. 1464)
* Center for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p. 1478)
* Council for Emergency Care (Section 2552, p 1479)
* Grant program to support demonstration programs for regionalized emergency care (Section 2553, p. 1480)
* Grant program to assist veterans who wish to become EMT’s (Section 2554, p. 1487)
* Interagency Pain Research Coordinating Committee (Section 2562, p. 1494)
* National Medical Device Registry (Section 2571, p. 1501)
* CLASS Independence Fund (Section 2581, p. 1597)
* CLASS Independence Fund Board of Trustees (Section 2581, p. 1598)
* CLASS Independence Advisory Council (Section 2581, p. 1602)
* Health and Human Services Coordinating Committee on Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1610)
* National Women’s Health Information Center (Section 2588, p. 1611)
* Centers for Disease Control Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1614)
* Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Office of Women’s Health Research (Section 2588, p. 1617)
* Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1618)
* Food and Drug Administration Office of Women’s Health (Section 2588, p. 1621)
* Personal Care Attendant Workforce Advisory Panel (Section 2589(a)(2), p. 1624)
* Grant program for national health workforce online training (Section 2591, p. 1629)
* Grant program to disseminate best practices on implementing health workforce (Section 2591, p. 1632)
* Demonstration program for chronic shortages of health professionals (Section 3101, p. 1717)
* Demonstration program for substance abuse counselor educational curricula (Section 3101, p. 1719)
* Program of Indian community education on mental illness (Section 3101, p. 1722)
* Intergovernmental Task Force on Indian environmental and nuclear hazards (Section 3101, p. 1754)
* Office of Indian Men’s Health (Section 3101, p. 1765)
* Indian Health facilities appropriation advisory board (Section 3101, p. 1774)
* Indian Health facilities needs assessment workgroup (Section 3101, p. 1775)
* Indian Health Service tribal facilities joint venture demonstration projects (Section 3101, p. 1809)
* Urban youth treatment center demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1873)
* Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for diabetes prevention (Section 3101, p. 1874)
* Grants to Urban Indian Organizations for health IT adoption (Section 3101, p. 1877)
* Mental health technician training program (Section 3101, p. 1898)
* Indian youth telemental health demonstration project (Section 3101, p. 1909)
* Program for treatment of child sexual abuse victims and perpetrators (Section 3101, p. 1925)
* Program for treatment of domestic violence and sexual abuse (Section 3101, p. 1927)
* Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1966)
* Committee for the Native American Health and Wellness Foundation (Section 3103, p. 1968)
Obamacare which does nothing to cut costs and improve care or even guarantees a reduction in premiums must be stopped just look at what it will do!

Seniors lose $500 Billion from Medicare – O NO ObamaCare!

You pay TAXES on Employer health care plans – O NO ObamaCare!

Uninsured forced to spend 20% of income to be insured – O NO ObamaCare!

Retired Union Members healthcare benefits get TAXED – O NO ObamaCare!

NEW TAXES on Americans earning less than $250,000/yr – O NO ObamaCare!

Americans PAY an additional estimated $3500/yr for coverage – O NO ObamaCare!

Cancer patient care rationing – O NO ObamaCare!

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What will STOP “ObamaCare”… is the ObamaCare CHART.

House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republicans asked the Joint Economic Committee to draw up another chart the ObamaCare Chart.

To the average American, it looks like a maze that they’ll have to navigate before receiving medical care. AND IT IS — the parts in white already exist, and the colored boxes are the new entities, offices, requirements, reports, and subsidies the Democrats’ bill would create.

Don’t hold your breath. Once again, the Democrats are using their majority power like they’re dictators, trying to keep the TRUTH from the American people and their Representatives in Congress. We MUST not let them succeed! That’s why we’ve set up our site to enable you to send “blast faxes” to every single Senator and Representative on Capitol Hill, demanding that they read every line of the ObamaCare bill, look at every single detail exposed by this new chart, and KILL this new attempt at a government takeover of American healthcare!

Please don’t delay — Congress is in session right now, and if we don’t stand up and FIGHT against the radical Left, there might be nothing left of the America we know and love for our children! Take action now!

Sincerely,

Alan M. Gottlieb
Chairman, AmeriPA

Let’s be realistic. We know that President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress want to bring about a government takeover of health care. We know that a majority of Americans don’t want this. And, many of us already know that a deceptive bipartisan compromise bill is being prepared by the Senate Finance Committee that would appear to prevent a government takeover by replacing Obama’s “public option” with “health care cooperatives,” but would actually provide a Trojan horse for a government takeover.

In this environment of deception and power politics, voters must not encourage members of Congress to work on a compromise health care reform bill, no matter what President Obama proposes in his next address to the public after Labor Day. All that President Obama needs is a bill with an embryo of a public option. He could take it from there to develop a completely government-run health care system over time.

What we need is for Congress to just drop health care reform!

This would provide the time to get many constitutionalists nominated and elected to Congress in 2010 and 2012. Once we have a majority of fiscally responsible constitutionalists in Congress, that would be the time to consider health care reform.

Click here to take immediate action to email your representative and senators to “just drop health care reform.”

Be sure to keep the heat on your representative and senators with phone calls, personal visits, attendance at town halls, and partaking in other public meetings and rallies.

Thanks.

Your friends at The John Birch Society

Dear Friend of Liberty,

Turn on the TV . . . pick up a paper . . . surf the news sites . . . even visit Youtube.

Everywhere you look, Congressmen are catching heat in their own backyards.

They thought going back to their districts during August recess would be a breath of fresh air and a time to unwind. Boy, were they wrong!

Now they can’t wait to run off back to Washington, D.C. to escape the mobs of outraged constituents in their home districts.

So that’s why we need to make their return to D.C. as politically unpleasant as some of these townhall meetings.

Campaign for Liberty is launching a mass action movement, and we need you to be a part of it.

Starting right away, it is time to double down on collecting signatures for S 604, the Senate Audit the Fed Bill.

While Congress is still on recess, townhall meetings are a great place to gather tons of petition signatures.

To make things interesting, Campaign for Liberty is upping the stakes. The person who gathers the most signatures in each state will win a pocket Constitution and a copy of Dr. Paul’s new book End the Fed, both autographed by Dr. Paul himself.

And whichever state collects the most signatures (as a percentage of population) will win a $1,000 gift certificate to the Campaign for Liberty store.

A recent Rasmussen poll shows that 75% of Americans support a thorough audit of the Federal Reserve, so there are plenty of willing signers out there just waiting to be asked.

With 3 out of every 4 people a supporter, you could gather hundreds of petitions just hitting a few blocks door-to-door!

But collecting the petitions is just the first step.

When the Senators return to D.C. on September 8th, we want to let them know right away that we haven’t let up. We want them sweating as soon as they get back.

So, for the first week (September 8th – 15th), let’s keep their phones ringing off the hook about Audit the Fed. Let’s keep at least one staffer in every office busy from morning to night.

If everyone makes just one call a day, they will be overwhelmed. And believe me, they will get the message.

And that’s when we hammer it home.

On Tuesday, September 15th at 4PM, it’s finally time to deliver those petitions!

Your local leaders are already developing a strategy for the most effective petition drops, so please check your state page for plans and updates.

Similar pressure brought almost two-thirds of the House of Representatives on board with Audit the Fed, and it’s high time the Senate shaped up.

Can you imagine the reaction at each Senate office to hundreds of patriots delivering thousands of petitions, all on the back of a week of non-stop calls and a month of townhall protests?

The effects of displays like these are two-fold, because in addition to putting political pressure on your Senators, they generate local media coverage and help spread the Audit the Fed message to more voters.

Which in turn puts more pressure on your Senators.

So let’s turn up the heat. Gather as many S 604 petition signatures as you can. Hit up the townhall protests and any other liberty-minded rallies.

Remember, the winning signature-gatherer in each state wins a copy of End the Fed and a pocket Constitution, both autographed by Ron Paul.

Not to mention the winning state gets a $1,000 Campaign for Liberty shopping spree!

When the Senators finally retreat to Washington, D.C. on September 8th, call their office daily to ratchet up the pressure for Audit the Fed.

And then, on Tuesday, September 15th at 4 PM local time, we’ll really let ‘em have it! We’ll deliver those thousands of petitions simultaneously, in front of news camera and the public eye.

Check your state page for specific petition drop plans for your state.

This Mass Action Movement will be critical in getting Audit the Fed passed in the Senate. I hope you will take the time to join in this winning fight.

In Liberty,

John F. Tate
President