From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)
Subject: Latest on DCX and call to action
Organization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow
Distribution: sci
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 22:58:08 GMT


TO: DC-X Proponents
FROM: Tim Kyger
SUBJECT: DC-X -- What Should Now Be Done
 
Cross-posting of this message is _STRONGLY_ encouraged!  Please get
this up on Compu$erve, and Prodigy, and any and all BBSs or systems!
Memorandum
 
Friday, July 24th, 1992
 
1. The House Appropriations Committee ("HAC") and its Defense
Subcommittee Chair, Representative John Murtha, will take the position
in conference with the Senate on the FY '93 Defense Appropriations
Bill (H.R. 5504) that SSRT funding should be restored (said conference
occurring probably sometime in early September).  Nevertheless,
the prejudicial language terminating SSRT contained in the HAC's
Committee Report H. Rpt. 102-627 has passed into the outside world,
and the same arguments against SSRT as are presented and justified in
H. Rpt. 102-627 are butrussed by their presence in that report.
 
2. We must assure that there is as much positive support from Congress
for SSRT as is possible before the HAC/SAC ("Senate Appropriations
Committee") conference on the Defense Appropriations Bill.  This will
help to neutralize the "bad" language of H. Rpt. 102-627.
 
3.  The Defense Subcommittee of the SAC will mark up its bill and its
associated report in the next few weeks (I will see that specific data on
this meeting, such as date and time, is posted as soon as I can get it).  
 
4.  Letters, phone calls, faxes, etc., should be made to the Senators
listed following as soon as is possible; they are the members of the SAC
Defense Sub.  Ask that the SSRT DC-X ATD program be supported in the
SAC's Committee Report on their Defense Appropriations Bill (which will
probably be the _Senate's_ version of the House's bill H.R. 5504; their
Committee Report _will_ sport a different number designator than that
on H. Rpt. 102-627).  The more and varied the positive contacts
supporting SSRT these Senators receive, the better.
 
All of the Senators listed below are members, of course, of the full 
Senate Appropriations Committee; in fact, the Chair of the Full
SAC, Senator Byrd (D-WV) is a member of the Defense Subcommittee.
The Ranking Republican of the full SAC, however, is _NOT_ on the
Defense Sub.  I've listed him below anyway.  You should write/call/fax
him too (Mark Hatfield).
 
The full SAC is 29 Senators; the Defense Sub is 18 Senators -- 62%.
 
 
*Senator Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  Chair of the SAC Defense Subcommittee
SH-722
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-1102
202/224-3934
Fax: 202/224-6747
 
*Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-SC) ((Chair of the full NASA Authorization
Committee in the Senate))
SR-125
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4002
202/224-6121
Fax: 202/224-4293
 
*Senator J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA)
SH-136
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-1802
202/224-5824
Fax: 202/224-2952
 
*Senator Robert Byrd (Chair of full SAC) (D-WV)
SH-311
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4801
202/224-3954
Fax: 202/224-4025
 
*Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
SR-433
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4502
202/224-4242
Fax: 202/224-3595
 
*Senator Jim Sasser (D-TN)
SR-363
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4201
202/224-3344
Fax: 202/224-8062
 
*Senator Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
SH-328
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-0302
202/224-4521
Fax: 202/224-2302
 
*Senator Dale Bumpers (D-AR)
SD-229
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-0401
202/224-4843
Fax: 202/224-6435
 
*Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
SH-506
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-3002
202/224-4744
Fax: 202/224-9707
 
*Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
SH-531
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-1502
202/224-3254
Fax: 202/224-7431
 
*Senator Ted Stevens (Ranking Minority Member of the Defense Sub) (R-AK)
SH-522
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-0201
202/224-3004
Fax: 202/224-2354
 
*Senator Jake Garn (R-UT)
SD-505
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4401
202/224-5444
Fax: 202/224-8791
 
*Senator Robert Kasten, Jr. (R-WI)
SH-110
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-4902
202/224-5323
Fax: 202/224-7700
 
*Senator Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY)
SH-520
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-3202
202/224-6542
Fax: 202/224-5871
 
*Senator Warren Rudman (R-NH)
SH-530
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-2902
202/224-3324
 
*Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)
SR-326
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-2402
202/224-5054
Fax: 202/224-9450
 
*Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA)
SH-303
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-3802
202/224-4254
Fax: 202/224-1893
 
*Senator Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
Hatfield is the Ranking Minority Member of the full SAC.
SH-711
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510-3701
202/224-3753
 
 
 

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