Subject: Mobile Chernobyl vote is Wednesday!

The House floor vote on HR 1270 the "Mobile Chernobyl Act will be 
Wednesday afternoon, October 29, 1997. On Tuesday afternoon, the 
House will vote on the rule that accompanies the bill. Debate on 
the bill itself is scheduled to begin at 11 am on Wednesday. The 
Rules Committee, which met last Friday, has allowed eight 
amendments to be considered. There will be 20 minutes debate on 
each amendment and one hour for the bill itself. Thus the process 
should take about 3 1/2 hours or so, perhaps quite a bit longer 
if the amendments receive recorded votes.

Nevada Reps Ensign and Gibbons had wanted to offer nine 
amendments, the Rules Committee only allowed four, and these were 
the four least important to the two Reps. Rep. Markey has an 
amendment, as do Millender-McDonald, Traficant and Kildee.

Ensign and Gibbons will hold a press conference at 1 pm on 
Tuesday at the Capitol to denounce the bill and the Rules 
Committee.

The most important things are these: 

1) Let's take advantage of this little bit of extra time and keep 
getting phone calls, telegrams, e-mails and faxes to the House. 
THE REPRESENTATIVES NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU! Even many typically 
liberal" or "environmental" Members have not yet decided which 
way to vote on this! On the other hand several very conservative 
members will vote against HR 1270 so even if your Member has not 
been cooperative in the past don't be afraid to contact him/her 
now.

2) The message is simple: oppose HR 1270 regardless of whether 
any amendments are approved. The bill cannot be improved 
sufficiently to be supported; it must be stopped.

Thanks!

As always
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Michael Mariotte
NIRS