If your congressperson has not co-sponsored the Resolution of Inquiry into the Downing Street Minutes Rep. Barbara Lee sponsored, please ask them to support her efforts. It's easy to do and would make a huge difference. As Rep. Lee told a town hall crowd Saturday, July 23 the Resolution of Inquiry is the big first step to compel the Bush Administration answer questions and deliver key information about their rush to war. Rep. Lee and her cosponsors need our support to make this information public. You can help.

Check the list below for your member of Congress. If he or she is on the list, please write and call to offer your thanks and support. If he or she hasn't cosponsored, you should send a hand-written letter asking them to co-sponsor the ROI. Obviously take a constructive tone, because it's possible your Rep is about to support the ROI - or may have since the list was last updated. Please call to discuss or - even more effectively - set up a meeting with him or her to discuss the Downing Street Minutes and related issues.

When you lobby your member of Congress by writing, calling or meeting, you should stress how important this issue is to you , your friends and family. Then, to emphasize this point, contact everyone you know and ask them to do the same. You have a great opportunity to set up a face-to-face meeting during the upcoming Congressional recess. Democracy for America is supporting lobby days in August focused on Downing Street: http://www.DemocracyforAmerica.com

You can get more details about the Downing Street Minutes and ongoing efforts to hold the Bush Administration accountable from the After Downing Street Coalition - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

Find contact information for the media to demand they cover the Resolution of Inquiry, the Downing Street Minutes, and other critically important stories here: Media Watch Project - http://www.democrats.com/media

While you're at it, ask the media to give an articulate, intelligent mom who lost her son in Iraq a chance to tell her compelling story on the air here: CindySheehan.com - http://www.CindySheehan.com

Here are the co-sponsors as of 7/25/05:

  Rep. Barbara Lee
  Rep. John Conyers
  Rep. Tammy Baldwin
  Rep. William Lacy Clay
  Rep. Danny Davis
  Rep. William Delahunt
  Rep. Lane Evans
  Rep. Sam Farr
  Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
  Rep. Luis Gutierrez
  Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey
  Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
  Rep. Dennis Kucinich
  Rep. Carolyn C. Kilpatrick
  Rep. Jim McDermott
  Rep. Jim Oberstar
  Rep. Major R. Owens
  Rep. Frank Pallone Jr.
  Rep. Don Payne
  Rep. Charles Rangel
  Rep. Jan Schakowsky
  Rep. José E. Serrano
  Rep. Pete Stark
  Rep. Bennie Thompson
  Rep. Diane Watson
  Rep. Robert Wexler
  Rep. Lynn Woolsey
  Rep. Maxine Waters
  Rep. Bernie Sanders
  Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones

If your representative is not on here, you should contact them ASAP write this letter. (Where is George Miller? Tauscher? Van Hollen? Pelosi??) You can find contact info for your representative here: http://www.house.gov/writerep/

The following is a simple sample letter that you can use verbatim or use your own words. Hand-written letters are best.

Representative [...]
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Dear Representative [...]

I am writing to respectfully request that you consider co-sponsoring a Resolution of Inquiry regarding the conduct of President George W. Bush, Vice-President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and other designated officials, for specifically making false statements in the execution of their official duties. This Administration has manipulated the media and concealed information vital to public discourse in a democracy.

Therefore I urge you to do what is right and co-sponsor the Resolution of Inquiry.

Sincerely,

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