Who will the Senate Finance Committee Listen to, You or the Lobbyists?

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Wednesday July 01, 2009 · 4:05 PM PDT

2009/07/01 · 16:05

Have you met your Senate Finance Committee?

Give em a call because your Future Health Care, or lack thereof, is in their hands.

Senate Committee on Finance

Members

REPUBLICANS

CHUCK GRASSLEY, IA
ORRIN G. HATCH, UT
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME
JON KYL, AZ
JIM BUNNING, KY
MIKE CRAPO, ID
PAT ROBERTS, KS
JOHN ENSIGN, NV
MIKE ENZI, WY
JOHN CORNYN, TX

DEMOCRATS

MAX BAUCUS, MT
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV
KENT CONRAD, ND
JEFF BINGAMAN, NM
JOHN F. KERRY, MA
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR
RON WYDEN, OR
CHARLES E. SCHUMER, NY
DEBBIE STABENOW, MI
MARIA CANTWELL, WA
BILL NELSON, FL
ROBERT MENENDEZ, NJ
THOMAS CARPER, DE

http://finance.senate.gov/...

Chances are, these good Senators, while they hear us, have some other Constituents, always on their minds.

There are some very special interests who somehow, manage to persuade our Senators, to represent their interests, time and time again.

Can you detect the "means and methods" those special interests, use to make their demands known? ... There MUST be a pattern here, somewhere!

The Republicans - Finance Committee

Jon Kyl-R

Pat Roberts-R

John Cornyn-R

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The Democrats - Finance Committee

Debbie Ann Stabenow-D

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And a few other Democrats, not on the Finance Committee, but pace-setters in their own right.

Dianne Feinstein-D

Harry Reid-D

Funny those special interests seem to be "equal opportunity" influencers-- R or D behind your Name, no matter. Long as you got one of those all important Committee Seats ... the Language of Money, is quite liquid, don't you know.

The expressions of our Citizen Outrage on the other hand, are a "dime a dozen", to our confused and conflicted Leaders.

When will they stand up for What the People want? EVER???

What excuse will those "good" Senators, use next, to avoid, Doing the Right Thing? (to avoid the Fighting for a serious Public Option -- instead of widdling it away.)

I'm sure they'll think of something -- a lot is riding on it. (But hmmm, how to pull the wool over everyone's eyes again? THAT is going to be some trick now, with Al Franken about to be seated.)

Of course there is a wildcard -- you could always drop a dime, give them a call, and then give them a piece of your mind. Maybe remind why we voted them into office, and how we can vote them out too -- if it comes to that.