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If the nuclear undustry (not a typo) gets this $50 billion subsidy, even
if no nuke is ever built, the money will somehow be spent, and taxpayers
will take a hit.<br><br>
The letter I wrote is below this NIRS alert, fyi.<br><br>
Don<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Subject: Action needed now on
Energy Bill and Loan Guarantees<br>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:33:25 -0500<br>
From: "Michael Mariotte" <nirsnet@nirs.org><br>
To: <done7777@sbcglobal.net><br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=5>ACTION ALERT!<br>
<br>
</font><font size=4>THIS THANKSGIVING, TALK TURKEY TO YOUR
CONGRESSMEMBERS!<br>
<br>
STOP $50 BILLION IN NUCLEAR POWER LOAN GUARANTEES!<br>
<br>
DEMAND AN ENERGY BILL THAT PROMOTES RENEWABLES<br>
AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY!<br>
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Dear Friends:<br>
<br>
Members of Congress will be coming home to their districts Saturday,
November 17, 2007 for a 2-week Thanksgiving break. This year, because the
energy bills are likely to be addressed immediately after the break, it
is especially important for grassroots groups and even individuals to try
to meet with them and/or to ask questions at public meetings. It’s also
important right now to send letters to the editor, op-eds, and otherwise
act to bring the issue of taxpayer loan guarantees for new nuclear
reactors further into the public eye. It won’t happen unless you make it
happen!<br>
<br>
*</font>Tell your Members not to support the provision in the recent
Senate energy bill that could allow over $50 billion in loan guarantees
for new nuclear reactors. This provision not only would help finance new
nuclear reactors, but would allow money to be appropriated without annual
congressional budgetary oversight.<br>
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*</font>A specific ask you can make of your Members: Ask House Members to
send a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating that they oppose the
loan guarantees. Senators should be asked to send a similar letter to
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Those of you who live in Pelosi and
Reid’s districts should demand that they stand firm and not allow the
loan guarantee language in the final energy bill.<br>
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*</font>Members on an Appropriations Committee (list below) should
receive your special attention. These Members have the most to lose
politically from the loan guarantees: a) they would lose power if the
guarantees are removed from the annual appropriations process; b) they
will be the first to be blamed if utilities default on the loansand
remember that the Congressional Budget Office predicts 50% of the loans
in this program will default, which would cost taxpayers billions of
dollars.<br>
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To find out how to contact your <b>House of Representative</b> member
when he/she is in their home district go to
<a href="http://www.house.gov/" eudora="autourl">http://www.house.gov</a>
(once on the front page of the website there is a drop down scroll of all
the Representatives’ individual websites that will have their local
contact information). Or call the Congressional Switchboard at
800-839-5276 or 202-224-3121.<br>
<br>
To find out how to contact your state’s <b>Senators</b> go to
<a href="http://www.senate.gov/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.senate.gov/</a> (once on the front page of the website there
is a drop down scroll of all Senators’ personal websites with their local
contact information). Or call the Congressional Switchboard at
800-839-5276 or 202-224-3121.<br>
<br>
*Background information and fact sheets on the loan guarantees are
available on the front page of NIRS website
(<a href="http://www.nirs.org/">www.nirs.org</a>) in the Hot News and
Actions section with additional materials available in our Nuclear
Economics section at
<a href="http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/neconomics/neconomicshome.htm">
http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/neconomics/neconomicshome.htm</a><br>
<br>
While speaking to your Members, also urge them to ensure that any energy
bill includes strong provisions to support renewable energy and energy
efficiency, and increased vehicle mileage standards. The nuclear power
and other polluting industries are working hard to remove these important
sections and to water down as many sustainable energy provisions as they
can. <br>
<br>
We all need to fight back now! Please activate phone trees and e-mail
lists, and reach out to as many people as you can. This two-week period
when Congress is in recess is critical.<br>
<br>
As always, please call upon NIRS to help you in any way we can.<br>
<br>
Michael Mariotte<br>
for all of us at <br>
Nuclear Information and Resource Service<br>
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 340<br>
Takoma Park, MD 20912<br>
301-270-6477<br>
<a href="mailto:nirsnet@nirs.org">nirsnet@nirs.org</a><br>
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House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations<br><br>
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Democrats<br>
</b>David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chair<br>
John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania<br>
Norman D. Dicks, Washington<br>
Alan B. Mollohan, West Virginia<br>
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio<br>
Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana<br>
Nita M. Lowey, New York<br>
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Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr., Alabama<br>
Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island<br>
Maurice D. Hinchey, New York<br>
Lucille Roybal-Allard, California<br>
Sam Farr, California<br>
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Illinois<br>
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Michigan<br>
Allen Boyd, Florida<br>
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Jersey<br>
Sanford</font> Bishop, Georgia<br>
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Barbara Lee, California<br>
Tom Udall, New Mexico<br>
Adam Schiff, California<br>
Michael Honda, California<br>
Betty McCollum, Minnesota<br>
Steve Israel, New York<br>
Tim Ryan, Ohio<br>
C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger, Maryland<br>
Ben Chandler, Kentucky<br>
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida<br>
Ciro Rodriguez</font>,
Texas <br>
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<b>Republicans<br>
</b>Jerry Lewis, California<br>
C.W. Bill Young, Florida<br>
Ralph Regula, Ohio<br>
Harold Rogers, Kentucky<br>
Frank R. Wolf, Virginia<br>
James T. Walsh, New York<br>
David L. Hobson, Ohio<br>
Joe Knollenberg, Michigan<br>
Jack Kingston, Georgia<br>
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey<br>
Roger F. Wicker, Mississippi<br>
Todd Tiahrt, Kansas<br>
Zach Wamp, Tennessee<br>
Tom Latham, Iowa<br>
Robert B.Aderholt, Alabama<br>
Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri<br>
Kay Granger, Texas<br>
John E. Peterson, Pennsylvania<br>
Virgil H. Goode, Jr., Virginia<br>
Ray LaHood, Illinois<br>
Dave Weldon, Florida<br>
Michael K. Simpson, Idaho<br>
John Abney Culberson, Texas<br>
Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois<br>
Ander Crenshaw, Florida<br>
Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana<br>
John Carter, Texas<br>
Rodney Alexander, Louisiana<br>
Ken Calvert, California<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times">Senate Committee on
Appropriations<br>
</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2> <br>
Democrats<br>
</b>Robert Byrd, West Virginia<br>
Daniel Inouye, Hawaii<br>
Patrick Leahy, Vermont<br>
Tom Harkin, Iowa<br>
Barbara Mikulski, Maryland<br>
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin<br>
Patty Murray, Washington<br>
Byron Dorgan, North Dakota<br>
Dianne Feinstein, California<br>
Richard Durbin, Illinois<br>
Tim Johnson, South Dakota<br>
Mary Landrieu, Louisiana<br>
Jack Reed, Rhode Island<br>
Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey<br>
Ben Nelson, Nebraska<br>
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Republicans<br>
</b>Thad Cochran</font>, Mississippi<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>Ted Stevens, Alaska<br>
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania<br>
Pete Domenici, New Mexico<br>
Kit Bond, Missouri<br>
Mitch McConnell, Kentucky<br>
Richard Shelby, Alabama<br>
Judd Gregg</font>, New Hampshire<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times" size=2>Robert Bennett, Utah<br>
Larry Craig, Idaho<br>
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas<br>
Sam Brownback, Kansas<br>
Wayne Allard, Colorado<br>
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee<br>
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</font></blockquote><br>
November 15, 2007<br>
<br>
Nancy Pelosi, Office of the Speaker<br>
H-232, US Capitol<br>
Washington, DC 20515<br>
<br>
Dear Speaker Pelosi:<br>
<br>
I urge you to oppose the subsidies proposed in the current National
Energy Bill to the nuclear power industry that would help in the
development of that technology.<br>
<br>
This proposal not only would help finance new nuclear reactors, but would
allow money to be appropriated without annual congressional budgetary
oversight.<br>
<br>
Then there is the issue of loan defaults, and the devastating effect that
will have on taxpayers. Remember that the Congressional Budget
Office predicts 50% of the loans in this program will default, which
would cost taxpayers billions of dollars.<br>
<br>
Nuclear power’s long-term safety and sustainability are still unproven,
and there is no place for the wastes, and none likely in the near future
based on recent events.<br>
<br>
Please oppose the guarantees and instead fund renewable technologies from
wind and solar, and aggressive energy conservation, including substantial
increases in auto fuel mileage.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your support and leadership on this issue.<br>
<br>
Sincerely,<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Don Eichelberger<br>
628 Lyon St. #1<br>
San Francisco, Ca, 94117<br>
<br>
Cc:<br>
<br><br>
Barbara Lee,<b> </b>California Member, <b>House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations <br>
Oakland District Office, </b>1301 Clay Street Suite 1000-N, Oakland, CA
94612, Phone: (510) 763-0370 Fax: (510) 763-6538 <br>
<b> <br>
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Don Eichelberger<br>
DJ Fix Independent Productions<br><br>
Green Uprising Blog<br>
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www.greenuprising.blogspot.com<br><br>
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1843:<br><br>
"Human emancipation wll only be complete when the real, individual
man (sic) is absorbed into himself the abstract citizen; when as an
individual man, in his every day life, in his work and in his
relationships, he has become a <i>species-being</i> (<b>politically
accountabe to the whole</b>); and when he recognizes and realizes his own
power as <i>social</i> powers, so that he no longer separates this
<i>socia</i>l power from himself as <i>political </i>power."<br>
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