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A half-dozen constituents of Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner, in
the 5th Congressional District from Milwaukee County, Waukesha
County and Ozaukee County, visited Congressman Sensenbrenner's
office at 120 Bishops Way, Room 154 in Brookfield, WI 64006-6294 to
personally deliver a message to him.
With cameras from Fox 6 and WISN 12 rolling, we walked in to
Congressman Sensenbrenner's office to tell him how appalled we were
that he would choose this time to claim to be fiscally responsible.
He didn't do it during the Bush tax cuts, and he didn't do it when
he voted for Bush's Energy Bill with its over 6,000 cases of "pork"
projects, but he did stand against providing immediate and
significant help to hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast Survivors
who've already suffered because of the Federal Government's
incompetence.
This was our statement to him:
In the light of the poor Federal response in assisting the Gulf
Coast Survivors, which has clearly delayed medical assistance and
vitally needed food and water, causing additional unnecessary
deaths, Congress stepped in to legislate assistance where Bush,
Homeland Security and FEMA utterly failed.
The Katrina Relief Bill passed in the Senate 97-0, and in the House
410-11. You, Congressman Sensenbrenner were one of the 11 who voted
against the bill.
You have been cited as claiming that the reason for your opposition
was because there wasn't enough oversight of the money being spent.
While that, on the surface, may be a concern, considering FEMA has
been so incompetent in its handling of this National Emergency so
far, and is being given the responsibility for the distribution of
these funds, isn't it the responsibility of Congress to oversee the
distribution of these funds? Why is it that you would block this
aid to the survivors, and turn your back on them at this critical
time when this funding is so desperately needed? This is
unconscionable.
We are constituents of the 5th Congressional District, which you are
supposed to represent, and we are appalled and ashamed that you
would vote in our name, to hold back such critical funding to
Americans, who are survivors of a government failure, in their time
of need, when hundreds are dying and many more may very well end up
with chronic diseases or death because of the widespread exposure to
biological toxins on American soil. This is a National Disgrace of
a Federal Responsibility, and Americans shouldn't have to hold out a
tin-cup and beg to Congressional Representatives that are supposed
to represent them.
While the cameras taped the exchange, neither Channel 6 (FOX), nor
WISN Channel 12 ran the footage during their 6:00 evening news.
If you believe that Congressman Sensenbrenner should be more
representative of his constituents in making sure that PEOPLE come
ahead of "Pork" projects, please take this around to anyone in your
community and get them to sign it and send it on to Congressman
Sensenbrenner. Please send us a copy so that we can keep track of
who you are, where you are and how many of you don't care for
Sensenbrenner's priorities.
NGU.
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