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Thank your Senator for saying NO to Medicaid cuts!
Your voice has helped bring a victory in the budget debate! Capitol Hill leaders and staffers have said they have never heard so much from people across the country about the budget. Those efforts paid off today as the Senate voted against reducing Medicaid funding in 2006 by close to $15 billion.
As we give thanks for our partners and this victory, we ask you to let senators who supported this amendment hear your thanks.
Senators who supported amendment and said no to Medicaid cuts!
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT) |
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD) |
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Wyden (D-OR) |
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Subject: Thank you.
Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,
Thank you for standing up for the health care needs of low-income families and kids. Your vote for the amendment to protect funding for Medicaid is consistent with my faith - and with my belief that budgets are moral documents.
Budget priorities should reflect a concern for "the least of these" and the common good. Ensuring the health of our nation's poorest is a major concern for me and should not be cast aside in the name of deficit reduction or budgetary constraint.
Thank you again for your vote to protect the people served by Medicaid. I hope you will continue, on all legislative matters, to "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy." (Proverbs 31:8-9)
Sincerely,
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