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Contact Congress Before Friday Oct 3 Congress has two days left to pass important clean energy bill

posted: October 1, 2008 1:35 pm Print This Post

Yesterday we told you about the bill that passed the U.S. Senate last week on an unprecedented vote of 93-2.  It was HR6049, which would extend clean energy tax credits for eight years.  If it cleared the House, it would sail through the White House and make all the difference in the world to individuals and businesses wanting to invest in clean energy.

All the House had to do was to pass the thing.  True, it wasn't perfect;  the tax credits contained in it were partly but not wholly paid for.  However, it would have led to some 276,000 additional jobs and $232 billion in investment over eight years.  Instead, the House ignored the Senate bill and produced their own  -  HR7060  -   which contained extra revenue sources that House members knew would not be acceptable to the Senate or the White House.

So now we have just two days of business  -  Thursday and Friday  -  to try to rescue this vital bill before Congress recesses for the election.

Can you take a couple of minutes to make a call to your Representative? Visit this link, type in your zip code and get the phone information about your representative. Apart from the shortness of time, there's another reason we're asking you to make phone contact. Because of the financial services bailout bill, Congresspersons' web sites have been crashing all over Washington in the last couple of days.  With a phone call, you can at least get a message through!

http://www.capwiz.com/re-action/callalert/index.tt?alertid=11996976

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