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In his two years on the job of protecting America's wildlife and wildlands, Interior Secretary Kempthorne hasn't listed a single new species under the Endangered Species Act - even though federal biologists warn that at least 280 native species could disappear forever without such protections.

In fact, under Secretary Kempthorne, the Department of the Interior has:

• repeatedly delayed protections for polar bears - which could disappear from America in 50 years if we continue to do nothing to save them,
• removed vital federal protections for gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone,
• and denied critical protections for jaguars, wolverines, and other imperiled wildlife.

It is Congress's job to hold the Secretary accountable when he fails to do his job. Please send a message now to urge your U.S. Representative to call for Congressional hearings on Secretary Kempthorne's failure to protect America's wildlife.
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For more than 25 years, Operation Smile has been helping children around the world afflicted with facial deformities such as cleft lips and cleft palates. A child born with a facial deformity is mocked and ridiculed. Eating and speaking are difficult. These children often end up totally dependent on their families who may even shut them away, believing they are cursed. Children who grow up with unrepaired cleft lips and cleft palates have difficulty developing social skills or leading productive lives. Since 1982, Operation Smile's volunteer medical teams have treated more that 115,000 children providing free surgery, medical care and follow up treatment. Now they are going to Madagascar. This is the organization's second medical mission to this country and we are asking that people send messages of hope to the children who will be receiving the corrective surgery. These children are now ostracized and objects of ridicule, but they will soon be able to smile without fear. Won't you help encourage them to smile? Send a message of hope.
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Do you remember Richard Honaker? He was President Bush's pick for a lifetime appointment to a federal district court who tried to outlaw abortion three times in Wyoming.

Now, Bush is at it again! This time, he and his allies in the Senate are pushing for a new anti-choice nominee as judge on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals: Robert Conrad.

Robert Conrad has called Planned Parenthood a "radical, pro-abortion fringe group" that "promotes a radical abortion agenda." What's more, from 1983 to 1986, Conrad served on the board of directors for a so-called "crisis pregnancy center" that provided medically inaccurate information about pregnancy, contraception and abortion.

Clearly, he isn't fair-minded – and he doesn't deserves a lifetime appointment as a federal judge!

Urge your senators to reject the nomination of Robert Conrad today.
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As the five-year war in Iraq rages on and big oil companies report record profits in 2007 - with Exxon Mobil earning a staggering $40.6 billion - American citizens are feeling pain at the gas pump.

Families are facing real hardships as they struggle to make ends meet in a slowing economy - with rising prices for gas and home heating oil. Everything from toilet paper to computer parts is more expensive now that gas is nearly four dollars per gallon.

George W. Bush needs to be reminded that his administration's approach to managing our national economy affects us all!

Send a petition letter to voice your outrage. When you sign, add the cost of gas in your area to receive an online map pin. Your pin will appear on the DCCC's Pain At The Pump map along with thousands of other people’s pins.

Help us tell President Bush how people from all 50 states are getting taken to the cleaners when they go to the gas station!

Note: If you don't see your pin on the map at www.dccc.org/page/s/rrn.com just yet, please check back in a few days.
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Nael al Kurdi was a student by day and sold falafel at night. When he was diagnosed with cancer, he traveled from Gaza to Egypt for treatment. But once the blockade was put in place, even though Nael petitioned the Israeli authorities repeatedly, he was not allowed to leave Gaza. He died as a result - he was only 21. This story comes from a recent article by the BBC that describes life in Gaza as an "open prison". The territory's almost compete isolation is: * destabilizing the food supply so that an increasing number of children suffer from malnutrition; * endangering lives due lack of access to medical care and supplies; and * creating shortages of fuel and electricity so that outages are common and hospitals experience power cuts for 8-12 hours a day. The situation in Gaza is incredibly dire - surely there is a way for Israel to see to its security needs without creating a humanitarian and human rights tragedy! Tell Israel to ease restrictions for medical travel and supplies!
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The debate is over -- the National Academy of Sciences and thousands of scientists agree that the planet is warming. Now it's time to make the effects of global warming real for the presidential candidates. Is global warming putting you and your community at risk for floods or hurricanes? Is it making water more scarce? Sign the petition, and let the presidential candidates know! After a decade of stalling, we need real leadership on climate change: * Job creation in a clean energy economy. * A moratorium on building new coal-fired power plants. * The reduction of emissions levels in scale with what the science demands. Tell the candidates what global warming means to your community and tell them to commit to be climate leaders in 2008 and beyond.
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