At the urging of Democratic leaders in Congress, a few political campaign veterans have formed Americans United to Protect Social Security. The nonprofit organization with close ties to organized labor plans to raise $25 million to $50 million to pressure lawmakers to vote against Bush's proposal.
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• Social Security
Friday's Question:
President Bush's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin is just the most recent meeting between representatives of the two countries. Which of the following people, who would go on to become president, was the first official representative of the United States to travel to Russia?
John Quincy Adams
James Buchanan
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
"At Americans United to Protect Social Security, we are going to run a national campaign to defeat the president's privatization plan," said Brad Woodhouse, the group's spokesman and the former communications director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "The president and his supporters in Congress are messing with the third rail
; we're going to make sure they get zapped."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51517-2005Feb24.html?referrer=email
THANK GOD some groups that either have or can get $$ are jumping on this!!!