***ONGOING PROJECT: Petition Congress for support of H.R. 3240***

[M.Capestro]

Great to see! Thanks for posting, Sashia!
 
Just putting a reminder out to everyone that this CONTINUES to be an ongoing effort. Remember, the squeeeeeeaky wheel gets the grease!
 
Even if you've already written your congressman, called, emailed, beaten on their door...PLEASE GO DO IT AGAIN!!
 
This is an important piece of legislation and Congressman Smith needs your help.
 
In addition to reaching out to your own congressman/woman, please also reach out to the Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs. Contact ALL of them. As members of this committee, they represent ALL AMERICANS! Here's the link to their website: http://www.internationalrelations.house.gov/members.asp
 
The Thomas Directory also indicates that the resolution has been referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law. Here's the link to their site: http://judiciary.house.gov/about/subimmigration.html
 
Please folks, let's not sit back and just wait and see what happens.
 
Let's get busy!
 
Let's be heard!!
 
 
Please post here and let us all know what you're doing to support this effort!

[ENR]

Count me in

[lovellboys]

Finally a co-sponsor from NJ. It's about time!!!

 
I am still hoping for Congressman Andrews from NJ.  I asked for a meeting, so I will keep everyone posted.   I am a very impatient constituent!!!

[Candida]

I also posted to the Main Forum.
 
This is an election year and politicians will be robo-calling and sending masses of contribution requests to our homes. This is a good time to hold them ransom. It's a bold move from me and I hope it works, but I just sent my party leader, John Boehner, a letter I will post below.

No matter what party you are affiliated with, I also would like to challenge the members of this organization to make a similar pledge - of course the amount is up to you.

Here is my letter:

[Recent headlines of the David and Sean Goldman story have really touched my heart. It is inconceivable our government took so long to finally act on his behalf, with much thanks to Rep. Chris Smith who helped champion the effort.

I am writing to challenge the Republican Party, of which I am a proud member, to help Chris Smith by co-sponsoring and passing his H.R. 3240 bill. I pledge to contribute:

1. $2.00 for every co-sponsor from the party up to 100 members.
2. $5.00 for every co-sponsor from the party from 101 to 150.
3. $10.00 for every co-sponsor from the party after 150.
4. $250.00 if the bill passes the house.
5. $250.00 if the bill passes the Senate and bill is signed into law.
For now, there are 19 members of the Republican House that have signed on to co-sponsorship. For that I will make an initial $50 to the GOP.com.
Thank you for your attention and I look forward to acting on my commitment.]
Of course I also gave my personal information so they can contact me to hold me to my promises. Wish me luck!

[Chuckles]

Oh, I LOVE this idea!

Contact info:
RNCC Chair is Pete Sessions (TX)
RNCC contact page:  http://www.nrcc.org/about/default.aspx

DCCC Chair is Chris Van Hollen (MD)
DCCC contact page:  http://www.dccc.org/page/s/contact

Gonna give this its own thread in the Main Forum.

[Kimi]

I just sent an e-mail to Congresswoman Markey to support H.R. 3240 and the work Congressman Christopher Smith is doing on behalf of international abduction of children.

[pam.in.ny]

Not sure which thread to put this in but my letter to the editor was finally printed in today's edition of our local paper. Thanks again to James for helping me get close to 200 words. I did notice that they did some editing and misspelled a couple words but that is typical in our paper. Also, I see there are a couple, perhaps interesting, comments already in response to the letter. Now onto trying to get that letter into some other papers.

Pam

[KLG]

I also posted to the Main Forum.
 
This is an election year and politicians will be robo-calling and sending masses of contribution requests to our homes. This is a good time to hold them ransom. It's a bold move from me and I hope it works, but I just sent my party leader, John Boehner, a letter I will post below.
 
No matter what party you are affiliated with, I also would like to challenge the members of this organization to make a similar pledge - of course the amount is up to you.
 
Here is my letter:
 
[Recent headlines of the David and Sean Goldman story have really touched my heart. It is inconceivable our government took so long to finally act on his behalf, with much thanks to Rep. Chris Smith who helped champion the effort.
 
I am writing to challenge the Republican Party, of which I am a proud member, to help Chris Smith by co-sponsoring and passing his H.R. 3240 bill. I pledge to contribute:
 
1. $2.00 for every co-sponsor from the party up to 100 members.
2. $5.00 for every co-sponsor from the party from 101 to 150.
3. $10.00 for every co-sponsor from the party after 150.
4. $250.00 if the bill passes the house.
5. $250.00 if the bill passes the Senate and bill is signed into law.
For now, there are 19 members of the Republican House that have signed on to co-sponsorship. For that I will make an initial $50 to the GOP.com.
Thank you for your attention and I look forward to acting on my commitment.]
Of course I also gave my personal information so they can contact me to hold me to my promises. Wish me luck!

 
I am totally impressed! Why doesn't my brain think like that?

[LDJVR]

Just got a call from Congressman Zack Wamp's office. He has co-signed on HR 3240 YEAH!!!!

[kmoor88]

Great Job LDVR!!!!

[M.Capestro]

Just got a call from Congressman Zack Wamp's office. He has co-signed on HR 3240 YEAH!!!!

Well done, LDJVR!! :clapping::clapping:

[pam.in.ny]

Doing cartwheels here. Great job. How many more do we need? Last time that I looked on the Thomas site there were 27 and Wamp makes 28? We're getting there and I'm not giving up.:cheer::cheer::cheer:

Just got a call from Congressman Zack Wamp's office. He has co-signed on HR 3240 YEAH!!!!

[LDJVR]

Doing cartwheels here. Great job. How many more do we need? Last time that I looked on the Thomas site there were 27 and Wamp makes 28? We're getting there and I'm not giving up.:cheer::cheer::cheer:

 
Took a few days for him to get back to me because he needed time to look it over so maybe this is why we don't have enough co-signers. Maybe some need to be reminded again. Does anyone know how many have been contacted?

[M.Capestro]

YEEEE HAAAW! Congressman Pete Olson of TX 22 is now a co-sponcer to H.R. 3240! :cheer:

The above was posted in another forum. I believe this brings us to 29 co-sponsors. As for how many have been contacted. I would guess 100s.
 
I think a better question may be: "How many have been contacted lately?"
 
HAVE YOU CONTACTED YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVE TODAY? HOW ABOUT THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE??

[KLG]

Is there a list somewhere of the 29 co-sponsors?  Thanks.