[Peace-discuss] Codepink: ask Reps to co-sponsor NDAA amendment banning cluster bomb transfer

[Robert Naiman]

Codepink is in the House.

In particular: if we could get *one* Republican co-sponsor on this
amendment, the amendment would become "bipartisan." That would likely help
us significantly in the Rules Committee to get a floor vote.

Remember: 40 Republicans voted with us in June 2016
<https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-heeding-close-house_b_10516480> on
the Lieu-Conyers amendment to bar the transfer of cluster bombs to Saudi
Arabia.

Here are the 40 Republicans who voted yes. Burgess and Massie are on the
Rules Committee now <https://rules.house.gov/about/rules-committee-members>
.

Amash, Blum, Brooks (AL), *Burgess*, Clawson (FL), Cramer, Davidson, Dent,
Duncan (TN), Garrett, Gibson, Gohmert, Gosar, Grothman, Huelskamp, Issa,
Jones, Jordan, Knight, Labrador, LoBiondo, Lummis, *Massie*, McClintock,
McKinley, Meadows, Mulvaney, Palmer, Pitts, Poe (TX), Posey, Roe (TN),
Rohrabacher, Rooney (FL), Schweikert, Sensenbrenner, Smith (NJ), Stutzman,
Walker, Yoho.


---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Marcy Winograd
Date: Fri, Jul 7, 2023 at 8:47 AM
Subject: [CODEPINKCONGRESS] Pls ask your House rep to co-sponsor the NDAA
amendment banning cluster bombs. Here's a link to the amendment.

Dear CODEPINK Congress:

 House reps Sara Jacobs (D-San Diego) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) have
introduced an amendment to the NDAA
<https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000189-2cb8-d0a8-a59b-fff85df30000>or
military budget to ban the use and export license for cluster munitions
(see photo attachment).

   *Please call your House rep (202-224-3121) and email, too, urging your
rep to co-sponsor this amendment
<https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000189-2cb8-d0a8-a59b-fff85df30000> and
vote for it*
*when it reaches the floor soon.*

   CODEPINK sent out an alert
<https://www.codepink.org/clusterbombsukraine?utm_campaign=cluster_munitions_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink>
 this morning to mobilize opposition to sending these
internationally-banned weapons, each
one containing hundreds if not thousands of shiny bomblets that often fail
to explode until years later when a child picks up
a bomblet thinking it's a toy, only to have a limb blown off. Please click
on this alert.
<https://www.codepink.org/clusterbombsukraine?utm_campaign=cluster_munitions_2&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepink>

  This morning the Washington Post reported
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/06/biden-cluster-bombs-ukraine/>
 the White House will send Ukraine cluster munitions, bypassing US law
prohibiting the
shipment of cluster bombs with a failure to detonate rate of more than 1
percent. More than 120 countries, according to the Post, have
signed the UN Convention on Cluster Munitions to outlaw their use.

  Peace,

Marcy Winograd
Coordinator, CODEPINK Congress (codepink.org/codepinkcongress)
Co-Chair, Peace in Ukraine Coalition
@MarcyWinograd on twitter

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Marcy Winograd
Coordinator, CODEPINK Congress (codepink.org/codepinkcongress)
Co-Chair, Peace in Ukraine Coalition
@MarcyWinograd on twitter
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