Name check Action

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There is an immediate opportunity to solve name check delay.

The Senate and The House will have a conference as early as next

week to negotiate each amendment of the appropriation bill on the

Commerce, State, and Justice. Senator Levin's NAME CHECK

AMENDMENT is on the list, which is very effective by itself. But the

amendment is

very likely to pass the Conference. This means that the House will

probably accept the Senate amendment.

To make the House side to modify Levin¡¯s amendment with more

specific terms regarding name check reform, the following

CONFERENCE MEMBERS, as listed at the end of this message, have

been identified. We need at least one member in the Conference to

propose the

modification. To do that, we need name check stories from

corresponding CONSTITUENTS.

If you live in one of the following areas, you story is vital to change

Levin¡¯s amendment. We need at least 10 stories within one district to

volume up our voice. It is our mission to address our

mistreatment. Please be active in reporting your stories, which could

be the last straw we need to push things happen.

Please email your story to renhao09@yahoo. com, ASAP. We need an

organized campaign to have a hit. Please also wake up your friends,

colleagues who also suffer name check delays.

Please check

http://www.census. gov/geo/www/ maps/cd108n/ FF_cd108n_ maps.htm

for district maps.

Alan Mollohan, Chairman, West Virginia, district 1

Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island, district 1

Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania, district 2 (Univ. of Penn)

Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland, district 2 (Johns Hopkins)

Adam Schiff, California, district 29, (Cal Tech)

Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut, district 3, (Yale)

David Price, North Carolina, district 4, (RTP)

Dave Obey, Wisconsin, district 7

Rodney Frelinghuysen, Ranking Member, New Jersey, district 11

John Culberson, Texas, district 7

Hal Rogers, Kentucky, district 5

Tom Latham, Iowa, district 4

Robert Aderholt, Alabama, district 4

Edited November 3, 2007 by The_dip_sticks

[rebeccajo 14]

I thought this already passed..............

[The_dip_sticks 0]

No this will be next week:

"It was posted once before on this list: there is an immediate

opportunity for name check reform in the conference between the House

and Senate on the Commerce, State, Justice appropriations bill.

What was not posted earlier, because it was not known at the time, is

that this conference is expected as early as NEXT WEEK, so the need

for action is IMMEDIATE. We need to make the key decision makers on

the conference aware that this is a constituent issue.

If you are in a critical district listed below, everybody on this list

is depending on you:

Alan Mollohan, Chairman, West Virginia, district 1

Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island, district 1

Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania, district 2

Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland, district 2

Adam Schiff, California, district 29

Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut, district 3

David Price, North Carolina, district 4

Dave Obey, Wisconsin, district 7

Rodney Frelinghuysen, Ranking Member, New Jersey, district 11

John Culberson, Texas, district 7

Hal Rogers, Kentucky, district 5

Tom Latham, Iowa, district 4

Robert Aderholt, Alabama, district 4

Jerry Lewis, California, district 41

Right now, we are collecting stories and they should be emailed to

stories@securecheck alliance. org. We will also be working to arrange

in-person meetings or calls in these key districts.

If you are not in one of these districts, take heart that a lot of

people in these districts have been getting involved. What you can do

to help is try to find others in these districts who have the problem.

Also, we need your financial support now more than ever. Donation

meters for both LIA and AFU, which are together funding this effort,

are up on the securecheckalliance .org web site.

One last note: to ensure that critical emails are not lost in the

flurry of unmoderated questions about individual cases, I have

temporarily changed the settings on the list to allow moderators only

to post. This setting will be changed back once the conference is over.

Randall"

[LaL 418]

I thought this already passed..............

It passed but they are going to conference, and the purpose for lobbying at this time is to strengthen and possibly modify it to make it more comprehensive.

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Today we got some important news from Capitol Hill. The details are a

bit confusing, but bottom line for us is that we have more time to

gather support on the issue. And that is a good thing. Congressmen

will be at home on recess through December 4th, which gives us the

opportunity to set up local meetings or attend town hall meetings. If

you are interested in this, please let us know and we will try to help

you coordinate with other people in your areas. You can reach us at

stories [at] securecheckalliance [dot] org.

THE STORY ON THE CJS BILL:

The CJS conference has been postponed indefinitely because of issues

unrelated the name check reform effort. Having said that however, the

CJS appropriations bill served a critical purpose -- to fund several

government agencies. We don't expect a shutdown of the FBI and other

agencies over a political fight. Instead, the CJS provisions

(probably without the controversial issues that have caused the

legislative log jam) are expected to be rolled into an "Omnibus"

appropriations bill with a larger scope of provisions than were

included in the CJS bill alone.

DIFFERENT BILL, SAME OPPORTUNITY:

The Levin amendment is expected to stay when CJS provisions are rolled

into the Omnibus appropriations bill. The Levin amendment passed on a

voice vote with widespread support in the Senate. Like the CJS

appropriations bill, the Omnibus appropriations bill will also have a

conference between the House and the Senate. The same Congressmen

will be in that conference, so we are sill working with the same basic

opportunity for reform and we are working with the same key members of

Congress.

WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOR:

Many people have seen Congresswoman Yvette Clarke's bill, HR 3828 IH,

which was introduced for consideration of the Judiciary Committee on

October 15th. We are working with Congresswoman Clarke to support an

amendment to the Omnibus bill that would expand the scope of HR 2328

to incorporate an individual review process.

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

1. Keep calling your congressman, but with a slightly updated message:

"National security requires that the FBI actually LOOK in the name

check files. We want the House to make that change in the CJS title of

the Omnibus appropriations bill. Please instruct the conferees."

2. Try to get an appointment with your Congressman (check with us --

maybe somebody in your district is already working on this) or go to a

town hall meeting. The single most effective thing you can do is to

speak with a Congressman in person to communicate that this is an

issue for folks at home.

3. Join as a contributing member to American Families United or Legal

Immigrant Association:

http://ameicanfamil iesunited. org/donate

http://legalimmigra nt.org.

4. Keep spreading the word.