<div dir="ltr"><div>Toll free. Depending on your email program and computer, you can just click on the phone number in the email. Takes fifteen seconds for each one. Durbin's office just asks for your zip code. With Kirk's office, I left a message on a machine. </div><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Robert Naiman<br>Policy Director<br>Just Foreign Policy<br><a href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">www.justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><a href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" target="_blank">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</a><br><div><span style="text-align:left">(202) 448-2898 x1</span><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Cason, FCNL</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jimcason@fcnl.org">jimcason@fcnl.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, May 24, 2016 at 2:02 PM<br>Subject: Stop $17 billion more for war<br>To: Robert Naiman <<a href="mailto:naiman.uiuc@gmail.com">naiman.uiuc@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><u></u>
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<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">Dear Robert Naiman,</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0"><strong>$17 billion <em>more</em> for war.</strong></p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">That's what's at stake in a Senate vote this week. Sen. John McCain (AZ) is planning to amend the annual military policy bill to give the Pentagon even more money above the nearly $600 billion already under consideration.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">Worse, our lobbyists have heard that <strong>a back-room deal is in the works to keep the vote for $17 billion dollars off the record.</strong> This major funding decision could come up for a voice vote — making it impossible to hold senators accountable for their position.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">The vote could happen as soon as Thursday. <strong>Please call the Capitol Switchboard now at <a href="tel:877-429-0678" value="+18774290678" target="_blank">877-429-0678</a> and ask to be connected to your senators' offices.</strong></p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">Here are some talking points to help you make your call:</p>
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<li style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:0">Hi, my name is _______, and I'm a constituent from __________.</li>
<li style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:0">Please oppose any increases to Pentagon spending in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).</li>
<li style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:0">Sen. McCain's $17 billion spending increase is too important for a voice vote. Please call for a recorded vote so we know where the senator stands.</li>
<li style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:12px;margin-top:0">Thank you.</li> </ul>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">The Pentagon's already-bloated budget shouldn't get another $17 billion through a back-room deal. I hope you'll call your senators today.</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0">Sincerely,</p>
<p style="color:#222222;font-family:georgia,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.2em;margin-bottom:1em;margin-top:0"><img align="left" src="http://fcnl.org/images/about/who/staff/jim_cason_sm.jpg" style="margin:0 1em 1em 1em">Jim Cason<br> Legislative Director<br> Foreign Policy</p>
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