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Eagle Forum Urges an Unconditional NO on Cloture Motion... |
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 19:53 |
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November 19, 2009
Eagle Forum Urges an Unconditional NO Vote on the Cloture Motion to Proceed to the Anti-Life Senate Health Care Bill
Washington, DC - Last evening, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unveiled his 2,074-page
health care bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care
Act. Not only is less strict, less-than-Stupak abortion funding
language contained in Reid's bill, but there is still nothing in place
to remedy the problem that is the underlying mechanism for carrying out
single-payer, government-run health care — the rationing of life-saving
medical treatments and placing the most intimate health decisions of
every American in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.
Eagle Forum urges the U.S.
Senate to cast an unconditional NO vote on the cloture vote on the
motion to proceed, which requires a 60-vote threshold and will likely
occur sometime on Saturday, November 21st.
"This bill in its entirety is
an attack on life at all stages," said Eagle Forum president and
founder Phyllis Schlafly. "The presence of the end-of-life counseling
provisions in this bill and the Democrats' rejection of all offered
amendments to ban the practice of rationing is not a fluke. It is the
foundation around which this legislation has been written."
"Regardless of any tweaks made
to the abortion language in the bill, one thing is for sure. A YEA
vote for cloture on the motion to proceed is not only a vote in favor
of government-run health care, but it is also a vote for
government-sanctioned euthanasia," said Schlafly. "Just think 'Terry
Schiavo' on a massive scale."
Defending life has been a top
priority for Eagle Forum since Mrs. Schlafly began battling the radical
pro-abortion feminists in the 1970s.
"We all know that being
pro-life is more than just being anti-abortion," said Schlafly. "This
week, the pro-life community must unite to defend not only the unborn,
but the lives of those who rose up all across America in town hall
meetings and revealed this bill for what it really is — anti-American
socialism."
"There is no cleaning up this
bill. Supporting cloture and just hoping for the best is not an
acceptable strategy," concluded Schlafly. "The American people's
overwhelming opposition deserves to be recognized, and they'll be
watching as their Senators cast their votes this week. I urge every
Senator who values the will of their constituents to vote NO on this
motion."
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About the Cloture Motion to Proceed: Some "on the fence" Senators have recently released statements
trying to frame the cloture vote on the motion to proceed as merely
procedural and technical and that this vote does not amount to an
endorsement of the bill or of government-run health care. When you
make your calls, some staffers may give you this excuse — Do not accept
it. Here is some background information for you to use while discussing
this topic:
According to an analysis conducted for this office by the non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS), between the 106th and 110th Congress, there were 41 cases in which the Senate approved the motion to proceed to a bill that the Senate eventually held a vote on final passage. Of those 41, 40 of the bills received Senate approval (S. 1805 in the 108th Congress was the lone exception). Based on these numbers, when the Senate votes to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed to a bill, that bill has a 97.6 percent chance of inevitably passing the Senate.
As we wade through all of the details of the new legislation for you, please begin taking action right now by calling your Senators and urging them to vote NO on the cloture motion to proceed.
Please call (phone calls are best!) both their district offices and Capitol Hill office.
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
If
you live in a state with one of these following Senators who is a key
target and is currently "on the fence" about how they will vote, please
know that your action is very valuable in pressuring these Senators to
vote according to the will of his constituents:
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