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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?? > >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. > > >Could someone send me the definition of the word "cloture" >my small Oxford English Dictionary is failing me. > >just me, >Marjorie 67/58/54 > > > > > > > >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. >> >>------------------------ >>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 >> >> >> >> >>-- >>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/