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Hello, All: I guess I look for trouble! After seeing Jim Cordy's posting of 190/49 as the official count, I took a little cyber-trip to HR 3514 (Chris Smith's version of the bill) and noted that 6 congressmen co-signed: Volkmer -(D-MO); withdrew from Udall bill 5/22 Hall, R -(D-TX); withdrew from Udall bill 6/13 Seastrand -(R-CA); withdrew fromm Udall bill 6/13 Flanagan -(R-IL) Hayes - (D-LA) Barton (R-TX) That is a loss to us of 4 (including Smith), plus Rep. Callahan(R-AL)who withdrew from our list of co-signors on 6/19(???) - I wonder why? I want to urge EVERYONE to increase their efforts to reach out and contact not only the 5 (Bilirakis, Bliley, Gingrich,Kassebaum and Lott), but to all of the remaining uncommitted members. We must also keep the ones who have co-signed by letting them know that we are watching and appreciate their loyalty to our cause. As David Booth said: "I'll never find out all I can do until I do all I can to find out" -Anonymous