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Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 08:53:47 -0800
From: David Mozer <[log in to unmask]>
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To: wa-afr <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [wa-afr-network] FW: URGENT ACTION:  Call Congress for Africa Debt
    Supplimental

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Organization: Bread for the World
To: "Dear Friends of Africa" <[log in to unmask]>,
Date sent: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 16:55:38 -0500
Subject: URGENT ACTION ALERT!!!!!
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Priority: urgent

URGENT ACTION ALERT ON DEBT RELIEF

The US House of Representatives will take floor action on the supplemental
request for the Fiscal Year 2000 budget on Thursday, March 16. Congress must
appropriate $210m in supplemental funds RIGHT NOW in order to make good on
the Clinton Administration's pledge at the Cologne Summit of the G-7 rich
countries to start the process of debt cancellation for the Heavily Indebted
Poor Countries (HIPC). Three-fourths of the HIPC countries are in
Sub-Saharan Africa.

In spite of all of the President's commitments at Cologne and all of the
Africa rhetoric in Washington in recent weeks, there is ZERO money for
Africa in the supplemental request that was just sent to the House printer.
At this late date, only action by a few senior Republican members of the
leadership and appropriations committee can change this situation.

We urge you to make the time to check the following list of key
Members of Congress who might be able to still make a change in
this situation before it is too late.

If you or other contacts you can make are in the home state of any of these
Members please CALL their offices not later than Wednesday March 8, 2000 and
tell tham that you want the $210m US contribution for the HIPC Trust Fund
included in the Supplemental. And remind them that every dollar the US
appropriates for multilateral debt relief will bring $20 additional dollars
from other countries.

CALL (202) 225-3121 and ask for the Members office.

Thanks!

KEY MEMBERS ON THIS URGENT DEBT ISSUE

STATE DISTRICT NAME
R-AL 1 Callahan
R-AL 4 Aderholt
R-AZ 5 Kolbe
R-AR 4 Dickey
R-CA 40 Lewis
R-CA 48 Packard
R-CA 51 Cunningham
R-FL 10 Young
R-FL 13 Miller
R-GA 1 Kingston
R-IL 10 Porter
R-IL 14 Hastert
R-IA 5 Latham
R-KS 4 Tiahrt
R-KY 3 Northup
R-KY 5 Rogers
R-MI 11 Knollenberg
R-MS 1 Wicker
R-MO 8 Emerson
RNH 1 Sununu
R-NJ 11 Frelinghuysen
R-NM 2 Skeen
R-NY 25 Walsh
R-NC 11 Taylor
R-OH 7 Hobson
R-OH 16 Regula
R-OK 5 Istook
R-PA 5 Peterson
R-TN 3 Wamp
R-TX 12 Granger
R-TX 22 DeLay
R-TX 23 Bonilla
R-TX 26 Armey
R-VA 10 Wolf
R-WA 5 Nethercutt


Ray Almeida
Bread for the World
1100 Wayne Ave., Suite 1000
Siver Spring, MD 20910
(tel) 301-608-2400 ext. 232
(fax) 301-608-2401
(e-mail) [log in to unmask]
(web site) http://www.bread.org

Reposted by request to the Advocacy Network for Africa (ADNA).




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