[SusDet Announce] Action needed now on Energy Bill and Loan Guarantees

Wed Nov 14 17:13:47 EST 2007

 ACTION ALERT!

THIS THANKSGIVING, TALK TURKEY TO YOUR CONGRESSMEMBERS!

STOP $50 BILLION IN NUCLEAR POWER LOAN GUARANTEES!

DEMAND AN ENERGY BILL THAT PROMOTES RENEWABLES

 AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY!

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Dear Friends:

Members of Congress will be coming home to their districts Saturday,
November 17, 2007 for a 2-week Thanksgiving break. This year, because the
energy bills are likely to be addressed immediately after the break, it is
especially important for grassroots groups and even individuals to try to
meet with them and/or to ask questions at public meetings. It's also
important right now to send letters to the editor, op-eds, and otherwise act
to bring the issue of taxpayer loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors
further into the public eye. It won't happen unless you make it happen!

*Tell your Members not to support the provision in the recent Senate energy
bill that could allow over $50 billion in loan guarantees for new nuclear
reactors. This provision not only would help finance new nuclear reactors,
but would allow money to be appropriated without annual congressional
budgetary oversight.

*A specific ask you can make of your Members: Ask House Members to send a
letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stating that they oppose the loan
guarantees. Senators should be asked to send a similar letter to Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid. Those of you who live in Pelosi and Reid's
districts should demand that they stand firm and not allow the loan
guarantee language in the final energy bill.

*Members on an Appropriations Committee (list below) should receive your
special attention. These Members have the most to lose politically from the
loan guarantees: a) they would lose power if the guarantees are removed from
the annual appropriations process; b) they will be the first to be blamed if
utilities default on the loans—and remember that the Congressional Budget
Office predicts 50% of the loans in this program will default, which would
cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

To find out how to contact your *House of Representative* member when he/she
is in their home district go to http://www.house.gov (once on the front page
of the website there is a drop down scroll of all the Representatives'
individual websites that will have their local contact information).  Or
call the Congressional Switchboard at 800-839-5276 or 202-224-3121.

To find out how to contact your state's *Senators* go to
http://www.senate.gov/ (once on the front page of the website there is a
drop down scroll of all Senators' personal websites with their local contact
information).  Or call the Congressional Switchboard at 800-839-5276 or
202-224-3121.

*Background information and fact sheets on the loan guarantees are available
on the front page of NIRS website ( www.nirs.org) in the Hot News and
Actions section with additional materials available in our Nuclear Economics
section at http://www.nirs.org/nukerelapse/neconomics/neconomicshome.htm

While speaking to your Members, also urge them to ensure that any energy
bill includes strong provisions to support renewable energy and energy
efficiency, and increased vehicle mileage standards. The nuclear power and
other polluting industries are working hard to remove these important
sections and to water down as many sustainable energy provisions as they
can.

We all need to fight back now! Please activate phone trees and e-mail lists,
and reach out to as many people as you can. This two-week period when
Congress is in recess is critical.

As always, please call upon NIRS to help you in any way we can.

Michael Mariotte

for all of us at

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 340

Takoma Park, MD 20912

301-270-6477

nirsnet at nirs.org

www.nirs.org

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*House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations*
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*Democrats*

David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chair

John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania

Norman D. Dicks, Washington

Alan B. Mollohan, West Virginia

Marcy Kaptur, Ohio

Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana

Nita M. Lowey, New York

José E. Serrano, New York

Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut

James P. Moran, Virginia

John W. Olver, Massachusetts

Ed Pastor, Arizona

David E. Price, North Carolina

Chet Edwards, Texas

Robert E. "Bud" Cramer, Jr., Alabama

Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island

Maurice D. Hinchey, New York

Lucille Roybal-Allard, California

Sam Farr, California

Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Illinois

Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Michigan

Allen Boyd, Florida

Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania

Steven R. Rothman, New Jersey

Sanford Bishop, Georgia

Marion Berry, Arkansas

Barbara Lee, California

Tom Udall, New Mexico

Adam Schiff, California

Michael Honda, California

Betty McCollum, Minnesota

Steve Israel, New York

Tim Ryan, Ohio

C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger, Maryland

Ben Chandler, Kentucky

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida

Ciro Rodriguez, Texas

*Republicans*

Jerry Lewis, California

C.W. Bill Young, Florida

Ralph Regula, Ohio

Harold Rogers, Kentucky

Frank R. Wolf, Virginia

James T. Walsh, New York

David L. Hobson, Ohio

Joe Knollenberg, Michigan

Jack Kingston, Georgia

Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey

Roger F. Wicker, Mississippi

Todd Tiahrt, Kansas

Zach Wamp, Tennessee

Tom Latham, Iowa

Robert B.Aderholt, Alabama

Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri

Kay Granger, Texas

John E. Peterson, Pennsylvania

Virgil H. Goode, Jr., Virginia

Ray LaHood, Illinois

Dave Weldon, Florida

Michael K. Simpson, Idaho

John Abney Culberson, Texas

Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois

Ander Crenshaw, Florida

Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana

John Carter, Texas

Rodney Alexander, Louisiana

Ken Calvert, California

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*Democrats*

Robert Byrd, West Virginia

Daniel Inouye, Hawaii

Patrick Leahy, Vermont

Tom Harkin, Iowa

Barbara Mikulski, Maryland

Herb Kohl, Wisconsin

Patty Murray, Washington

Byron Dorgan, North Dakota

Dianne Feinstein, California

Richard Durbin, Illinois

Tim Johnson, South Dakota

Mary Landrieu, Louisiana

Jack Reed, Rhode Island

Frank Lautenberg, New Jersey

Ben Nelson, Nebraska

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*Republicans*

Thad Cochran, Mississippi

Ted Stevens, Alaska

Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania

Pete Domenici, New Mexico

Kit Bond, Missouri

Mitch McConnell, Kentucky

Richard Shelby, Alabama

Judd Gregg, New Hampshire

Robert Bennett, Utah

Larry Craig, Idaho

Kay Bailey Hutchison, Texas

Sam Brownback, Kansas

Wayne Allard, Colorado

Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
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