Toll-free number for calling Congress?

[Feanorcurufinwe]

I know there is one, but I can't find it. Anybody?

[KoKo]

1. 1 (800) 839 - 5276!! Hope you want to use it to call Dem Itelligence

Committee Members about Holding their OWN Investigation into Pre-Iraq War Intelligence! See kskiska's post about this in LBN:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=188659&mesg_id=188659

[Feanorcurufinwe]

2. Climate Stewardship Act, S.139

From the MoveOn alert:

This is a bi-partisan bill, co-sponsored by Senators McCain (R-AZ)
and Lieberman (D-CT). It would cap U.S. emissions of heat-trapping
gases at year 2000 levels starting in 2010. It would also "establish
a market-based system of emissions trading, modeled on the successful
1990 acid rain program, to encourage innovation and help polluting
industries meet their targets at the lowest possible cost," according
to a New York Times editorial, excerpted below.

This historic vote will take place first thing Thursday morning.
Please make your call right away.

General information:
http://www.undoit.org/what_is_gb.cfm and
http://www.undoit.org/whatsnew_spot6.cfm

How global warming affects you:
http://www.undoit.org/what_is_gb_affect_1.cfm

A report showing that the U.S. suffered almost $20 billion in economic
losses in 2002 due to extreme weather events, a cost that could
increase if the U.S. does nothing to curb global warming:
http://uspirg.org/uspirg.asp?id2=10915&id3=USPIRG&

P.P.S: Here are excerpts from the New York Times Editorial, Jan. 15th:

New Players on Global Warming

Given the Bush administration's inert approach to global warming, the
best hope for getting a start on the problem this year lies with the
Senate....

The (McCain-Lieberman) bill provides an economywide approach to cutting
emissions of greenhouse gases, mainly carbon dioxide, that threaten to
disrupt the earth's climate in environmentally destructive ways. It
would require industrial sources to scale back emissions and would also
establish a market-based system of emissions trading, modeled on the
successful 1990 acid rain program, to encourage innovation and help
polluting industries meet their targets at the lowest possible cost.

These targets are more modest than America's obligations under the
Kyoto Protocol, the agreement on climate change signed by the Clinton
administration in 1997 and rejected as too costly by President Bush.
Kyoto has since been ratified by about 100 countries. But given the
administration's hostility, even the most aggressive environmentalists
in this country would be happy just to establish clear goals and
provide incentives for all the big polluters to begin getting a grip
on their emissions.

The McCain-Lieberman initiative is a good place to start....
enjoys the support of the major advocacy groups on this issue, as well
as that of dozens of progressive companies like Alcoa and British
Petroleum that are making emissions reductions in advance of what they
are certain will eventually be mandatory targets....

Though it's hard to predict how this will play out, there has clearly
been a major attitudinal change, even among Republicans, since 1997,
when the Senate approved a resolution expressing doubts about the
direction the Kyoto talks were then taking. Many legislators are
deeply troubled by reports of shrinking glaciers, dying coral reefs
and other ecological changes linked to warming. And many of these
same lawmakers - not least Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a co-sponsor
of the 1997 resolution - have lost patience with Mr. Bush's let's-wait-for-more-research stance.
The time for the McCain-Lieberman approach may well be at hand.

(End of excerpt. For the full editorial, see: )
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50C15FA38550C768DDDA80894DB404482