Passage will be one of our legislative priorities for the 106 th Congress. Look beyond your own professional back yard. There are no guarantees that any of these activities will give you the results you want, unless you can garner a whole lot of support. In the meantime, however, you will have gotten involved, you will have become known in your community and to your elected officials, and because of that involvement the next issue might go the way you want it to. Whatever you do, don't get discouraged.
Democracy is messy but at it's best, it is the best system in the world.