Fellow Fee Demo Opponents Please Respond

[CrackMaster]

Dear Fee-Demo Opponent -

 

The House of Representatives will begin debate on the Fiscal Year 2004

Interior Appropriations Bill at 3:00 PM (EST) today, July 16th. Contained

within that legislation is language that would, unless it is removed, extend

the Recreation Fee-Demonstration Program for yet another two years. That is

not only ridiculous, it is unacceptable. In 1996, Congress authorized

Fee-Demo as be a THREE year test. The time has come for this unpopular and

ineffective program to be recognized, once and for all, as a failure and for

fee-demo to end.

 

Fortunately, a bipartisan effort has come together within the House of

Representatives for the purpose of removing the offending language from the

Appropriations Bill and to allow Fee-Demo to peacefully terminate next year.

 

Within the next 24 hours, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Jeb

Bradley (R-NH) will introduce an amendment to remove the Fee-Demo extension

language. Your help is urgently needed to help pass that amendment.

 

HERE'S WHAT TO DO:

 

Please call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and asked to be

connected with the office of your Representative. When connected, ask to

speak with the Public Lands Staffer. If that person is unavailable, then

speak directly to the receptionist.

 

Tell him or her that you strenuously oppose the Recreation Fee Demonstration

Program and that you encourage your Representative to vote in SUPPORT of the

DeFazio / Bradley amendment that will strike the two-year extension of

Fee-Demo from the Interior Appropriations Bill.

 

This call is IMPORTANT.

Thanks you for your help.

 

Scott and Bob

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Scott Silver and Bob Bartsch

Wild Wilderness Free Our Forests LA

 

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Thanks for the head's up.

 

You can also write to Jim McDermott (Seattle Folks) on his website here