Call Congress Today for Impeachment
Just in from AfterDowningStreet's "Impeach Cheney Now!"
We've reached the impeachment moment for Vice President Dick Cheney. We've pushed the cosponsor list for H. Res. 333 up to 14. Chairman John Conyers says that if we get 3 more he'll begin the impeachment proceedings.
And many Congress Members must be recognizing that there is no other path available. Cheney and Bush have repeatedly refused to comply with subpoenas, ordered former staffers not to comply, and announced that the Justice Department will not enforce contempt citations from Congress. When a special prosecutor attempted to hold this administration accountable, Cheney's chief of staff obstructed justice, and Cheney persuaded Bush to commute his sentence. There is no course left for Congress but Impeachment.
On Monday, July 23rd, the fifth anniversary of the meeting that produced the Downing Street Minutes, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Ann Wright, Debra Sweet, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Zeese, and Tina Richards will lead a march to Chairman Conyers office and not leave until he agrees to begin impeachment proceedings.
If you cannot be there, you can take two minutes on Monday and do two things: phone Chairman Conyers at 202-225-5126 and ask him to start the impeachment of Dick Cheney; and phone your own Congress Member at 202-224-3121 and ask them to immediately call Conyers' office to express their support for impeachment. Your Congress Member might be one of the three needed, not just to keep impeachment activists out of jail but to keep this nation from devolving into dictatorship.
Call Congress Today for Impeachment!
Supporting Documents for H Res 333
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 4/24/2007)
Current cosponsors:
- Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - 6/6/2007
- Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 5/1/2007
- Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - 6/28/2007
- Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17] - 7/12/2007
- Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51] - 7/12/2007
- Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [GA-4] - 6/28/2007
- Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - 6/7/2007
- Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 7/10/2007
- Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 7/10/2007
- Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9] - 5/1/2007
- Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35] - 6/12/2007
- Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 6/7/2007
- Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4] - 5/10/2007
Use Congress.orgto find contact info for your congressperson.
See also:
marchtoimpeach's diary from Saturday: "Conyers: 3 More Congress Members and I'll Impeach"
and
jim d's diary from Sunday: "Mon 7/23 Impeachment Sit-in @Conyers w Cindy Sheehan, Journey for Humanity"
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UPDATE: Democratic Members of the Judiciary Committee - we have the right to lobby any of them even if we are not consitutents:
Democrats (23)
Chair: Rep. John Conyers (DEM-MI-14th)
Rep. Howard Berman (DEM-CA-28th)
Rep. Rick Boucher (DEM-VA-9th)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (DEM-NY-8th)
Rep. Bobby Scott (DEM-VA-3rd)
Rep. Melvin Watt (DEM-NC-12th)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (DEM-CA-16th)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (DEM-TX-18th)
Rep. Maxine Waters (DEM-CA-35th)
Rep. William Delahunt (DEM-MA-10th)
Rep. Robert Wexler (DEM-FL-19th)
Rep. Linda Sanchez (DEM-CA-39th)
Rep. Stephen Cohen (DEM-TN-9th)
Rep. Hank Johnson (DEM-GA-4th)
Rep. Betty Sutton (DEM-OH-13th)
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (DEM-IL-4th)
Rep. Brad Sherman (DEM-CA-27th)
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (DEM-WI-2nd)
Rep. Anthony Weiner (DEM-NY-9th)
Rep. Adam Schiff (DEM-CA-29th)
Rep. Artur Davis (DEM-AL-7th)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DEM-FL-20th)
Rep. Keith Ellison (DEM-MN-5th)
Update2: Per ben masel's comment that H Res 333 has been referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, I bolded the names of the Dem members of that subcommittee in the list above.