A Message from Nancy Pelosi
Monday, October 23
Dear Friend,
You know how high the stakes are -- so I'll get right to the point: there's never been a more critical time to highlight the priorities everyday Americans share.
Right now, working families suffer because corporate lobbyists write the laws. Our seniors can't get the drugs they need because the drug companies get everything they want. And President Bush continues to threaten one of our society's greatest accomplishments -- Social Security -- with his risky privatization schemes.
Congress needs to focus on an agenda that benefits the American people:
- Impose new rules and regulations to break the link between lobbyists and legislation
- Allow the government to negotiate with drug companies and fix Medicare Part D
- Stop Social Security and Medicare privatization plans in their tracks
- Raise the minimum wage to $7.25
- Cut the interest rates on student loans in half
- Roll back subsidies to Big Oil and gas companies
- Enact all the recommendations made by the independent 9/11 Commission
And that all needs to be done in the first 100 hours!
Working together, we will make that happen. Please help Americans United For Change today:
http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/100hrs
There's a lot at stake in the coming weeks, but we must never lose focus on the task at hand: building a better country. Your work changes the national debate, raising awareness about the misplaced priorities of the current leadership.
Last year, Americans United For Change led the national media campaign against Social Security privatization -- and won.
Now, with so much more at stake, will you help us win again?
http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/100hrs
Onward to victory.
Nancy Pelosi
Democratic Leader, U.S. House of Representatives
Posted by Americans United For Change Web Team
3 Comments
Dear Nancy: what’s this i’m hearing about you pledging ‘no impeachment’ if Dems get their seats in the senate and in the house? Why?
susan raftery in lynn, massachusetts | Monday, October 23 at 06:13 PM
Just received your fundraising e-mail, and I must say, I’d be much more likely to contribute had you not “taken impeachment off the table.” How could you say such a thing, knowing the depths to which this criminal administration has sunk? I could see saying that it wouldn’t be your first order of business, or that you’d wait to get all the facts before making a decision, but to discount it before ever even taking the office of Speaker? Sorry, I can’t support that.
Karen in Dearborn, MI | Tuesday, October 24 at 06:05 PM
Investigation of this administration’s crimes and Impeachment of both Bush and Cheney should come before anything else. We have got to get them out of office before anything else can proceed.
What does it matter if you pass bills and measures that will help the country, but Bush issues a signing statement and refuses to execute them.
He, Cheney and Rumsfeld are holding Congress hostage. Break free and Impeach them!
Kath in Northern, NJ | Wednesday, October 25 at 06:48 AM