Posted on 03/11/2004 6:32:20 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
Co-Sponsors to Date (for a list of organizational endorsements, click here)
U.S. House of Representatives- there are currently 50 co-sponsors
Check to see if your Representative is a co-sponsor, and then check out our action page to see how you can take action to support this legislation.
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A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-J-K-L-M-N-O-P-Q-R-S-T-U-V-W
read Rep's names in alphabetical order
Alabama
None at this time
Alaska
None at this time
Arkansas
None at this time
Arizona
Grijalva , Raol (D-AZ, 7th)
California
Farr, Sam (D-CA, 17th) Filner, Bob (D-CA, 51st) Honda, Michael (D-CA, 15th) Lee, Barbara (D-CA, 9th) Miller, George (D-CA, 7th) Solis, Hilda (D-CA, 32nd) Stark, Fortney (D-CA,13th) Waters, Maxine (D-CA,35th) Watson, Diane (D-CA, 33rd) Woolsey, Lynn (D-CA,6th)
Colorado
Udall, Mark (D-CO,2nd)
Connecticut
None at this time
Deleware
none at this time
Florida
None at this time
Georgia
Lewis, John (D-GA, 5th)
Hawaii
Abercrombie, Neil (D-HI, 1st)
Idaho
None at this time
Illinois
Davis, Danny (D-IL, 7th) Evans, Lane (D-IL, 17th) Gutierrez, Luis (D-IL, 4th) Jackson, Jesse (D-IL, 2nd) Schakowsky, Janice (D-IL, 9th)
Indiana
Carson, Julia (D-IN, 7th)
Iowa
None at this time
Kansas
None at this time
Kentucky
None at this time
Louisiana
none at this time
Maine
None at this time
Maryland
Cummings, Elijah (D-MD, 7th)
Massachusetts
McGovern, James (D-MA, 3rd) Olver, John (D-MA, 1st)
Michigan
Conyers, John (D-MI, 14th)
Minnesota
Oberstar, James (D-MN, 8th)
Mississippi
Thompson, Bennie (D- MS 2nd)
Missouri
Clay William (D-MO, 1st)
Montana
None at this time
Nevada
None at this time
New Hampshire
None at this time
New Jersey
Holt, Rush D. (D- NJ) Payne, Donald (D-NJ,10th)
New Mexico
None at this time
New York
Hinchey, Maurice (D-NY, 22nd) Maloney, Carolyn (D-NY, 14th) Meeks, Gregory (D-NY, 6th) Nadler, Jerrold (D-NY, 8th) Owens, Major (D-NY, 14th) Rangel, Charles (D-NY,15th) Serrano, Jose (D-NY, 16th) Towns, Edolphus (D-NY, 10th) Velazquez, Nydia (D-NY,12th)
North Carolina
None at this time
North Dakota
none at this time
Ohio
Brown, Sherrod (D-OH, 13th) Kucinich, Dennis (D-OH, 10th) Ryan, Tim (D-OH, 17th) Tubbs Jones, Stephanie (D-OH, 11th)
Oregon
DeFazio, Peter (D-OR, 4th)
Pennsylvania
None at this time
Rhode Island
none at this time
South Carolina
none at this time
South Dakota
none at this time
Tennessee
None at this time
Texas
Jackson-Lee (D-TX, 18th) Johnson, Eddie Bernice (D-TX, 30th)
Utah
None at this time
Vermont
Sanders, Bernard (I-VT)
Virginia
Scott, Bobby (D-VA, 3rd)
Washington
McDermott, Jim (D-WA, 7th)
Washington DC
Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC)
West Virginia
Rahall, Nick (D-WV, 3rd)
Wisconsin
Baldwin , Tammy (D-WI, 2nd)
(Excerpt) Read more at dopcampaign.org ...
-Hold peace as an organizing principle in our society;
-Endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights;
-Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking;
-Work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in non-violent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict;
-Address matters both domestic and international in scope;
-Submit to the President recommendations for reductions in weapons of mass destruction, and make annual reports to the President on the sale of arms from the United States to other nations, with analysis of the impact of such sales on the defense of the United States and how such sales effect peace;
-Encourage the development of initiatives from local communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations;
-Facilitate the development of peace summits at which parties to a conflict may gather under carefully prepared conditions to promote non-violent communication and mutually beneficial solutions;
-Develop new programs that relate to the societal challenges of school violence, guns, racial or ethnic violence, violence against gays and lesbians, and police-community relations disputes;
-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas;
-Provide for the training of all United States personnel who administer postconflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn societies;
-Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas; http://www.dopcampaign.org/campaign_oview.htm
Isn't that just sweet. They can be in charge of planting sunflowers on top of missile silos.
How about a Dept.of Rainbows, or Dept. of Unicorns?
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH PEOPLE?
I was thinking Ministry of Peace and Nightwatch from the Babylon 5 series.
Now isn't that better, can't you feel the love energy returning to us from the terrorist groups? Everything is all better now! Aren't we good people? Aaahhhhhhh......
No doubt run by the 'Pod People'.
Translated from libspeak:
Cut the balls off the U.S. military.
Gotta remind these idiots of one of their idols' (Mao) favorite sayings.....
"peace comes out of the barrel of a gun"
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