Marjorie,
No harm in supplementing whatever Sen. Specter will do.  If you have some
e-mail addresses I'll be glad to get a few letters out.  Thank you.  Dolores
-----Original Message-----
From: Marjorie L. Moorefield <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Friday, September 22, 2000 4:42 PM
Subject: Kathrynne,Greg and Delores


>Thanks Kathrynne,
>Its just as Margie Swindler said!!
>But I have news for them, My SIL is an Army Chaplain in Germany,
>and I have had the passage of the S.2015 Bill on his International
>Prayer list for several months now!!!
>Do you think we might confuse God??
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>Greg,
>You are so right, and so is Son number two, who is the Gov.
>of Florida!!
>
>Delores,
>Thanks for your offer, and if you'd like, I will send you the
>address for the major newspapers in Kansas, or better yet,
>most of them have email address for their letters to the editors.
>Right now I'm willing to try anything!! Please let me know, but
>if Senator Specter is calling for "cloture", then he has a better
>chance than we do.
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>Could someone send me the definition of the word "cloture"
>my small Oxford English Dictionary is failing me.
>
>just me,
>Marjorie 67/58/54
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>At 03:13 PM 09/22/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dear Listfriends,
>>This was sent as part of a larger message on a different
>>topic to another listserv I belong to.  It was derived from
>>a "prayer list" of various political matters, and readers
>>were urged:
>>"PRAYER REQUESTED TO BLOCK STEM-CELL BILL". I thought it
>>might be of interest in light of the pending stem cell
>>legislation, and Sen. Brownback's 14 amendments -- it sounds
>>to me as though these amendments are the "filibuster"
>>mentioned below.
>>
>>It occurs to me that letters to congressional leaders
>>asking them to invoke "cloture" would be appropriate.
>>Invoking
>>cloture, it appears, would prevent the filibuster and allow
>>the bill to be voted on while it's on the floor.
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>>------------------------
>>PRAYER REQUESTED TO BLOCK STEM-CELL BILL
>>The Stem Cell Research Act (S. 2015) may come to the Senate
>>floor next week.  The bill would authorize the use of
>>federal research funds for the destruction of human
>>embryos.  A filibuster is planned to prevent its passage,
>>but Senator Arlen
>>Specter (R-PA) has threatened to invoke cloture to bring the
>>bill to a
>>vote.
>>--------------------
>>
>>Best regards,
>>Kathrynne
>>
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>>
>>--
>>Kathrynne Holden, MS, RD
>>Author: "Eat well, stay well with Parkinson's disease"
>>"Constipation and Parkinson's" --  audiocassette & guidebook
>>"Guidelines for Medical Nutrition Therapy for Parkinson's
>>disease"
>>      & Risk Assessment Tools
>>"Risk for malnutrition and bone fracture in Parkinson's
>>disease,"
>>      J Nutr Elderly. V18:3;1999.
>>http://www.nutritionucanlivewith.com/