Senators Want Companies to Reveal Where They Keep Their Cash

If you think that multinational corporations take measures to avoid paying your country's taxes, you have two ways to deal with it. You could reform your tax code so that the incentive to avoid taxation disappears. Or, you could go the route of Stuart Smalley. From the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
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JW Gets FBI Report of USSR’s Favorite Members of Congress During Cold War

Ten U.S. Senators and three representatives were the Soviet Union’s favorite members of Congress when the Communist nation was our worst enemy, according to a previously classified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report obtained by Judicial Watch.
The federal lawmakers had repeated contact with Communist diplomats who “cultivated” relationships with them during the Cold War, the records show. JW obtained the information by using the Mandatory Declassification Review process and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The records are from an FBI operation that monitored Soviet officials and establishments in Washington, D.C. and determine that there is a “continuing interest by representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to maintain contacts with and cultivate members or staff personnel of the U.S. Congress.”


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Call your Senators on WEDNESDAY

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION (Via email/hat tip: Pat Wills) - Call Sen. Ron Wyden (202) 224-5244 and Sen. Jeff Merkley (202) 224-3753 urge a 'NO' vote on the Motion to Proceed on Obamacare. ∴ Although Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has refused to allow you or even his fellow Senators to see his version of the health care bill, he has vowed to force the Senate to take it's first vote before the Thanksgiving recess. ∴ That vote will be on a Motion to Proceed on the bill. THIS MOTION REQUIRES 60 VOTES AND IF IT FAILS OBAMACARE IS DEAD IN THE SENATE. Under Senate rules, the earliest this vote can take place is Friday. Reid has even threatened to keep the Senate in over the weekend and into Thanksgiving week until he has the votes he needs. Now is the time to act. We are asking every opponent of government-run health care to call their Senators on WEDNESDAY and ask them to vote "NO" on the Motion to Proceed.

Call Sen. Ron Wyden (202) 224-5244 and Sen. Jeff Merkley (202) 224-3753 urge a 'NO' vote on the Motion to Proceed on Obamacare.

Here's the Liberal strategy to pass this bill: to get the 60 votes to move to the bill, Reid has instructed Democrats to say that this first vote is a procedural vote - but in reality its passage would give Reid the power to cut backroom deals - much more than just procedure.

If this Motion to Proceed on Obamacare passes then Reid will cut backroom deals and add amendments to the bill until he gets the votes to pass Obamacare completely through the Senate. Then when the bill is merged with the House-passed bill, they can change the bill yet again.

Just a few weeks ago, 13 Democrats revolted against a bill to add $250 billion to the deficit by eliminating a reduction in physician reimbursement in Medicare without paying for it. They defeated the bill by voting against the Motion to Proceed. For these same Senators to now say this is not the most important vote is the height of hypocrisy.

The time to act is now! You must contact your Senators and let them know a vote on the Motion to Proceed is a vote in favor of the government takeover of our health-care system.

Call Sen. Ron Wyden (202) 224-5244 and Sen. Jeff Merkley (202) 224-3753 urge a 'NO' vote on the Motion to Proceed on Obamacare.

Even though as of Tuesday afternoon, Reid has not released the text of the bill, we know it will include a government-run health plan, increased taxes, cuts in Medicare and nothing to reduce ever-increasing health care costs. In fact, the Center for Medicare Services run by the Obama administration now says the Midnight bill passed by the House on November 7 will indeed cut benefits and raise premiums. It's no wonder Reid is hiding his version of the bill until the last minute.

Even if Reid gets his way and gets every one of the 60 Democrats to vote for the Motion to Proceed, we will join the battle over amendments and against a second cloture vote to cut off debate. All this will be unnecessary if we can stop the bill now.

JOIN TENS OF THOUSANDS OF OPPONENTS OF OBAMACARE ACROSS THE COUNTRY WEDNESDAY AND CALL YOUR SENATORS TO ASK FOR A "NO" VOTE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO THE HARRY REID HEALTH CARE BILL.

Call Sen. Ron Wyden (202) 224-5244 and Sen. Jeff Merkley (202) 224-3753 urge a 'NO' vote on the Motion to Proceed on Obamacare.

We at the American Conservative Union thank you for all you do to promote conservative, free-market principles. Visit us at http://www.conservative.org and stay informed.

Sincerely,
Larry Hart
Director of Government Relations
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Take action to protect 2nd Amendment Rights

Action Item: NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS ALERT - Ask Your U.S. Senators and Representatives to Sign Amicus Brief Supporting Second Amendment Rights in the States!

As a critical Second Amendment case goes before the United States Supreme Court, U.S. Senators Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) and Jon Tester (D-MT), and Congressmen Mike Ross (D-AR) and Mark Souder (R-IN) are gathering signatures for an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief by Members of Congress. And we need your support for this important effort next week.

The case is McDonald v. City of Chicago, and it will answer the question of whether the Second Amendment applies to the states-as the Congress clearly intended in the 1860s, when it adopted the Fourteenth Amendment to protect constitutional rights against abuse by state and local governments. This brief is an opportunity for today's Congress to show just as clearly that it respects the Second Amendment's importance to all Americans-not just residents of the District of Columbia and other federal territories. (Call MON-THU)

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) - DC (202) 224-3753, Salem (503) 362-8102
Sen. Ron Wyden (D) - DC (202) 224-5244, Salem (503) 589-4555
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D), Oregon, 4th - DC (202) 225-6416, Eugene (541) 465-6732
Rep. Kurt Schrader (D), Oregon, 5th - DC (202) 225-5711, Salem (503) 588-9100

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Tell your Senators to oppose cloture on Judge Hamilton

Action Item: Senator Jeff Sessions is calling on his colleagues to filibuster Judge David Hamilton. Tell your Senator to oppose cloture on David Hamilton and filibuster his nomination to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Judge Hamilton, a district court judge, is Barack Obama's nominee to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. That very court has cited Judge Hamilton for abusing his power as a judge.
  
• In 1994, the 7th Circuit rebuked Judge Hamilton for denying a Rabbi the right to display a Menorah as part of an Indianapolis holiday display.
  
• In 2005, Judge Hamilton prohibited the Indiana House of Representatives from praying if Jesus's name was mentioned, but said praying in Allah's name was perfectly fine.
  
• He also is one of the most lenient judges in America when it comes to crime and criminals.
  
• In United States v. Rinehart, 2007 U.S. LEXIS 19498 (S.D. Ind. Feb 2, 2007), Judge Hamilton used his opinion to request clemency for a police officer who pled guilty to two counts of child pornography. The 32 year old officer had engaged in "consensual" sex with two teenagers and videotaped his activities.
  
• In United States v. Woolsey, 535 F.3d 540 (7th Cir. 2008), the Seventh Circuit faulted Judge Hamilton for disregarding an earlier conviction in order to avoid imposing a life sentence on a repeat offender.

Call your Senators. Tell your Senators to oppose cloture on Judge Hamilton and support a filibuster.

Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) - DC (202) 224-3753, Salem (503) 362-8102
Sen. Ron Wyden (D) - DC (202) 224-5244, Salem (503) 589-4555

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