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 What You Can Do About D.C. Vouchers

Latest!!!  Nov. 18 (since Oct. 25).  Congressional voucher proponents plan to contravene rules and will of the American people through parliamentary backdoor push of vouchers.   Update here!

  Call your Senator now to tell them to vote AGAINST school vouchers for Washington D.C. at (202)225-3121.

Senate Committee has approved Vouchers for D.C. 

 

It is not over yet.  Please call Congress Now! Please Email Your Senator Now!!

Urge a Filibuster!!!

 

Action Needed as of Wednesday November 26, 2003

1.  Call Members of Congress:    New!!! Email Your Senator!!

2.  Call Members of the City Council

3.  Email the D.C. City Council

4.  Email Congressman Tom Davis (R- Va - 11)

5.  Email Congressman Jeff Flake (R- Ariz.-6)

6.  Sign the Petition

7.  Fax or Snail Mail the D.C City Council and Congress

 

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Please Contact Members of Congress.

 

U.S. Senate Call Now!

Proponents in Congress plan to ignore the majority of Americans and push vouchers using underhanded tactics. The House passed the bill while Black members attended a scheduled presidential candidates debate!!!

 

Nov. 18  Call the Senate and urge a filibuster of the federal budget bill to oppose school vouchers.

Oct. 27.  Call these Members.  They can be reached through the Capital switchboard at 202-224-3121 or 225-3121.  Please focus on Republicans, who are listed in the left column.

 

Full committee appointments—January 15, 2003.
UNITED STATES SENATE  COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS  ONE HUNDRED EIGHTH CONGRESS

Republicans:

TED STEVENS, Alaska, Chairman    (202) 224-3004
THAD COCHRAN, Mississippi     202-224-5054
ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania   202-224-4254
PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico   202-224-6621
CHRISTOPHER S. BOND, Missouri   202-224-5721
MITCH MCCONNELL, Kentucky   202-224-2541
CONRAD BURNS, Montana   202-224-2644
RICHARD C. SHELBY, Alabama  202-224-5744
JUDD GREGG, New Hampshire   202-224-3324           

ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah  (202) 224-5444
BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL, Colorado (202)224-5852
LARRY CRAIG, Idaho  202/224-2752
KAY BAILEY HUTCHISON, Texas  202-224-5922
MIKE DEWINE, Ohio  (202) 228-4429
SAM BROWNBACK, Kansas  (202) 224-6521

 

Democrats:

ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia, Ranking
DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii
ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, South Carolina
PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont
TOM HARKIN, Iowa
BARBARA A. MIKULSKI, Maryland
HARRY REID, Nevada
HERB KOHL, Wisconsin
PATTY MURRAY, Washington
BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota
DIANNE FEINSTEIN, California
RICHARD J. DURBIN, Illinois
TIM JOHNSON, South Dakota
MARY L. LANDRIEU, Louisiana


 

 

Please call these Senators to Show Opposition to School Vouchers.  They sit on the Appropriations committee and have votes key to defeating the amendment to the D.C. budget bill that funds a $13 million voucher program.  While the Committee has cleared this bill; they will remain the key negotiators of the legislation as it proceeds through Congress.

 

Sept. 9 Call these Members.

 

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) at 202-224-3841

Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) at 202-224-3954

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) at 202-224-5824,

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mt.) at 202-224-2644,

Sen. Christopher Bond (R-Mo.) at 202-224-5721

Sen. Ben Campbell (R-Co) at 202-224-5852

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) at 202-224-4254.

 

 

Urge all Senate Appropriations members to oppose vouchers.

 

Urge Senate Democrats and Sen. Arlen Specter (R- Pa) to steadfastly oppose the voucher plan.

 

Urge the Senate to support Senator Durbin's amendments to eliminate the voucher plan for D.C.. 

 

Urge Senator Feinstein to reject vouchers and stand behind her 30 year record, D.C. residents and the Democratic colleagues who oppose vouchers.

 

- U.S. House of Representatives 

 

Urge Members of the House to support the Norton and all amendments to oppose vouchers.

 

 

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Is California GOVERNOR DAVIS' RECALL Helping the Push for a Voucher Plan in D.C.?

 

Sadly, long-time opponent of school vouchers, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has become the swing vote in the Senate Appropriations committee considering the voucher legislation. One opinion is that her decision may be influenced by the shifting political climate in California, where Californians are for the first time recalling a governor who is Democratic. California by the way has rejected school vouchers twice in ballot measures - first in 1993 and second in 2000.  See more discussion here, http://www.lobbyline.com/voucheranalysis.htm

 

Republican Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) has joined the side of those seeking public funding only for public schools, rejecting public subsidies for private and parochial schools in part out of concern for discrimination on religious grounds.  He is opposing school vouchers for D.C..

 

 

 

 

 

(The voucher proposals for Washington, D.C. all originate in the United States Congress.  There has been no local legislation to implement the taxpayer funded private school subsidy plan.  The are two major congressional plans in Congress to institute school vouchers for D.C. Both pieces of legislation would provide taxpayer funded grants to D.C. students to attend private schools.   The private schools are not required to accept school vouchers; private schools are free to choose or reject students with vouchers just as they are those without.  Voucher plans typically permit discrimination in admissions on gender, sexual orientation, disability bases and use federal funds to pay for religious instruction.)

Related Links:

Congressman Jeff Flake and D.C. Vouchers

Senator Diane Feinstein and D.C. Vouchers

The Voucher Proposal for D.C.

See the Legislative Background of the DC voucher plans in Congress.