ACTION ALERT: PHONE CALLS, E-MAILS NEEDED IN OPPOSITION TO McCAIN-FEINGOLD.(Brief Article)

The U.S. Senate will begin debate on the McCain-Feingold bill on March 19. Please take immediate action to encourage calls and e-mails to all U.S. senators -- and especially, Republican senators -- in opposition to the McCain-Feingold bill.

All available means of activating grassroots networks should be utilized to galvanize citizen activity on this issue, including telephone trees, church bulletins, call-ins to appropriate radio talk shows, and letters for publication in local newspapers.

The information in the article above provides basic information on the bill. Additional material on the ways in which the McCain-Feingold bill would harm NRLC and other pro-life groups, including a factsheet on some of the bill's most significant anti-speech restrictions, is available on the NRLC website at www.nrlc.org/Federal/Free_Speech/ index.html.

The NRLC website also contains a detailed analysis of the ways in which the McCain-Feingold bill violates First Amendment rights to free speech and free association, prepared by the James Madison Center for Free Speech. For more information on the work of the Madison Center, see www.jamesmadisoncenter.org.

How to Contact Your Senators

There is no longer time to depend on regular mail to make your voices heard before the Senate takes up the McCain-Feingold bill on March 19. Therefore, phone calls and e-mail should be utilized.

All senators offices may be contacted through the Capitol Switchboard, (202) 224-3121. In addition, calls to senators in-state offices can be especially ...