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URGENT: Must Stop CARA! Senate to vote next Wednesday, May 25!
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>From the American Policy Center
Tom DeWeese, President
American Policy Center
50A South Third St., Suite 2
Warrenton, VA 20186
540-341-8911
FAX: 540-341-8917
apcmail@americanpolicy.org
May 20, 2005
Action Alert! Action Alert! Action Alert!
*** URGENT: Must Stop CARA! Senate to vote next Wednesday, May 25!
>From the American Land Rights Association…
CARA-LWCF Vote Set For Wednesday, May 25, In Senate Energy Committee
Congratulations. You did a great job.
You prevented the CARA-LWCF from even coming up for a vote on the House Floor on
Thursday. The bill was completed and voted on with CARA-LWCF left out. Land grab
advocates gave up . . . for now.
NOW WE MUST STOP CARA IN THE SENATE!
Urgent Action Required – Senate Energy Vote Wednesday, May 25th.
Make your Calls, send those faxes and e-mails now, today, Monday, Tuesday and
Wednesday of next week.
The big battle in the Senate has arrived.
***Liberal Lamar Alexander (R-TN) will try to amend his giant land grab bill S
964 into the Energy Bill now under consideration in the Senate. They will be
considering options for the OCS (Outer Continental Shelf) oil exploration and
Lamar wants a big chuck of that money.
Votes began this week in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on
the giant Energy Bill now working its way through Congress. The mark up could
take most of next week. These may be the most important days of the year.
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will face an attempt by Lamar
Alexander to sneak his new CARA-LWCF bill (S 964) into the Energy Bill
Wednesday, May 25th.
* Action to Take *
-----1. Call, fax and e-mail your two Senators to urge them to oppose S 964, the
new CARA – LWCF Land Grab bill. This is especially important if one or both of
them are on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The number for any
Senator at the Capitol Switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
-----2. You need to call, fax and e-mail members of the Energy and Natural
Resources Committee every day between now and Wednesday (not Saturday and
Sunday) next Wednesday to keep Senators from adding CARA-LWCF (S 964) to the
Energy Bill. The Energy Committee is listed below. They must be deluged with
calls, faxes and e-mails.
-----3. This is an urgent call to action. Call and e-mail your friends,
neighbors and business associates to urge them call your Senators.
New Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
(If they only have a website listed, you can usually send e-mail from there)
Republicans:
Pete Domenici (R-NM)
(202) 224-6621
FAX: (202) 228-3261
http://www.domenici.senate.gov
Larry Craig (R-ID)
(202) 224-2752
FAX: (202) 228-1067
http://www.craig.senate.gov
Craig Thomas (R-WY)
(202) 224-6441
FAX: (202) 224-1724
http://www.thomas.senate.gov
Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
(202) 224-4944
FAX: (202) 228-3398
http://www.alexander.senate.gov
Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
(202) 224-6665
FAX: (202) 224-5301
http://www.murkowski.senate.gov
Richard Burr (R-NC)
(202) 224-3154
FAX: (202) 228-2981
http://www.burr.senate.gov
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
(202) 224-3041
FAX: (202) 228-5171
http://www.martinez.senate.gov
James Talent (R-MO)
(202) 224-6154
FAX: (202) 228-1518
http://www.talent.senate.gov
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
(202) 224-2644
FAX: (202) 224-8594
http://www.burns.senate.gov
George Allen (R-VA)
(202) 224-4024
FAX: (202) 224-5432
http://www.allen.senate.gov
Gordon Smith (R-OR)
(202) 224-3753
FAX: (202) 228-3997
http://www.gsmith.senate.gov
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
(202) 224-4343
FAX: (202) 228-1373
http://www.bunning.senate.gov
Democrats:
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
(202) 224-5521
FAX: (202) 224-2852
E-mail: senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov
Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
(202) 224-6361
FAX: (202) 224-2126
E-mail: senator@akaka.senate.gov
Byron Dorgon (D-ND)
(202) 224-2551
FAX: (202) 224-1193
E-mail: senator@dorgan.senate.gov
Ron Wyden (D-OR)
(202) 224-5244
FAX: (202) 228-2717
http://www.wyden.senate.gov
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
(202) 224-5842
FAX: (202) 228-5765
http://www.johnson.senate.gov
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
(202) 224-5824
FAX: (202) 224-9735
http://www.landrieu.senate.gov
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
(202) 224-3841
FAX: (202) 228-3954
http://www.feinstein.senate.gov
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
(202) 224-3441
FAX: (202) 228-0514
http://www.cantwell.senate.gov
Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
(202) 224-4744
FAX: (202) 228-2197
http://www.corzine.senate.gov
Ken Salazar (D-CO)
(202) 224-5852
FAX: (202) 228-5036
http://www.salazar.senate.gov
Background:
Liberal Lamar Alexander is back.
His Billion Dollar Boondoggle is back in another form.
S 964 was recently introduced by Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Mary Landrieu
(D-LA), David Vitter (R-LA) and Tim Johnson (D-SD). It’s a smaller version of
the giant Conservation and Reinvestment Act (CARA).
This bill, entitled Americans Outdoors Act (S.964), would allocate over $2
billion in outer-continental shelf revenues from 2006-2011 (Guaranteed
off-budget trust fund) to buy more federal land.
This would provide the new CARA – LWCF (Land and Water Conservation Fund) with
$450 million over 6 years. An additional $350 million would be spent on wildlife
restoration, $125 million for the Urban Park and Recreation Recovery program,
and $450 million to help with the impact on coastal areas that produce oil and
gas.
The House Appropriations Committee didn't provide funding in the fiscal '06 bill
for the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) that would allocate money
between the federal, state and tribal governments for land acquisition. In FY
'05, $255 million was allocated to the LWCF.
You need to ask your Senators to oppose any attempt to make the LWCF (Land and
Water Conservation Fund) into a trust fund. It must go through the normal
appropriations process every year. It must compete with other important
priorities like health care, military needs and much more. Under S 964 only
Social Security would have a higher standing. We call the new bill CARA-LWCF.
CARA - LWCF on the Senate side is a smaller version of CARA and sets a precedent
for setting up a real trust fund for land acquisition. If it passes it appears
it will get $450 million for six years. Added to the other amounts, this bill
looks like more than $2 billion. Lamar Alexander continues his billion dollar
boondoggle.
Senator Alexander introduced his bill last year that would have eventually lead
to the enactment of CARA, a $3 billion per year guaranteed off-budget land
acquisition trust fund. The new CARA-LWCF is really just the camels nose under
the tent. Once they get a trust fund, it will get bigger and bigger every year.
It must be stopped now.
Massive guaranteed land acquisition is the death knell for rural America.
Liberal Lamar is grabbing two billion dollars now, and he will go for more
later. Stop this land-grabbing raid on the public treasury before it starts!!
The green extremists will not stop until they have grabbed your land!
They are setting aside over $450 million per year - guaranteed every year!!!!!
And it is land acquisition and also administrative costs when land sales are
closed, so it finances their operations as well as grabbing land.
It is a guaranteed, permanent, annual pile of cash for the greens. This will
permanently finance the environmental movement with $450 million every year to
finance their operations and seize property.
However, there is good news and more bad news: Congratulations to you who worked
so hard to keep CARA-LWCF out of the Budget bill.
Earlier this year, Liberal Lamar spelled out exactly what his latest CARA scheme
will do. “This money would be used by states, cities and communities to create
neighborhood parks, greenways, and land trusts,” says Alexander. “This would
help build state parks and greenways and land trusts, closer to where people
live, near their homes.”
Got that?! Lamar’s land grabs will be coming closer to where you live -- near
your homes. His envisioned massive new parks and greenways will be comprised of
your private property.
Liberal Lamar is using parks and land acquisition to build power in the Senate.
An old saying could be applied to him about the use of parks as political
trading stock, “If the only tool he had was a hammer, everything thing he saw
would begin to look like a nail.”
With Alexander’s focus on land acquisition and parks, all your property begins
to look like a park.
It is a new kind of park, what we call an “ego political park,” having less to
do with resource values and more about pure political power and doing the work
of the giant multi-national green industrial complex special interest groups
that support him.
***PLEASE SEND THIS URGENT ALERT TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE***
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