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AFA of PA ACTION ALERT
June 26, 2008
1.) Fairness Doctrine
2.) First ever Congressional hearing on transgender issues
1.) In a stunning admission Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi – without hesitation –said she wants to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. This will silence Secular and Christian conservative radio.
Pelosi on 'Hush Rush,' and Filibustering FISA
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27185
by John Gizzi
Posted 06/25/2008 ET
…At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year. “No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation. She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”… “So I don’t see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor,” Pelosi said. “Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’ “I asked. “Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation.
On October 17, 2007, a motion was filed to discharge the Rules Committee from consideration of H.Res. 694, which provides for the consideration of H.R. 2905. A discharge petition requires 218 signatures for further action.
Click here to view the names of the Congressmen who have signed onto Discharge Petition No. 110-3.
Four Pennsylvania Congressmen who supported a one-year moratorium on the Fairness Doctrine have not signed the discharge petition. These Congressmen are Jason Altmire, Tim Holden, Patrick Murphy and Allyson Y. Schwartz.
Eight Pennsylvania Congressman have signed the discharge resolution: Joe Pitts, Charles Dent, Bill Shuster, Jim Gerlach, Phil English, Todd Russell Platts, John Peterson and Tim Murphy.
2.) This morning the Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee (Chairman Robert Andrews, D-N.J.) of House Education and Labor Committee held the first ever hearing on discrimination against transgendered people in the workplace. This is a hearing on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which if it passes will require employers to permit male employees who think they are women to use the women’s restroom and workplace dressing and shower facilities. It will also give extra protection to homosexuals simply because of the sexual activity in which they engage. The Pennsylvanians on that committee are Congressmen Jason Altmire, Joe Sestak (he is also on the actual subcommittee where the hearing was held) and Todd Russell Platts.
ACTION NEEDED:
1.) If your Congressman is one of the four (Jason Altmire, Tim Holden, Patrick Murphy and Allyson Y. Schwartz) who supported the one-year moratorium on the Fairness Doctrine, but have not signed the discharge resolution, please contact them today and ask that he or she sign onto Discharge Petition No. 110-3.
2.) If your Congressman has signed the discharge resolution, please contact him to say ‘thanks.’ Click here for contact information for all Pennsylvania Congressmen.
3.) Contact your Congressman and ask that he or she oppose the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.
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