Preparing for Next Week's Lame Duck Session

A word from Eagle Forum Headquarters:

Dear Friends,

We cannot thank you enough for your role in last week’s historic conservative victory!  We will soon welcome one of the most pro-family, conservative Congresses in recent history.  While we celebrate that victory, we need your continued help as we advance in our quest to elect conservatives to every level of government (click here to give to Eagle Forum PAC) and more immediately to stop the liberals from doing any more damage in this Congress when they return for the lame duck session that will begin next week.

We are watching several issues that could come up in the lame duck session.  We will issue more specific alerts about each once we know it will come to the floor. 

In the meantime, please urge your Senators and Members of Congress not to pass any more jobs killing or spending legislation, but to use the lame duck session only to:

• Stop the automatic tax increases set to go into effect when the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year. 
• Permanently repeal the death tax.  If Congress does not take action, the federal death tax, currently at 0% will jump to 55%.

Other issues of concern include:

• The so-called “Paycheck Fairness Act,” which is a job-killing payback to feminists scheduled to come to the Senate floor next Wednesday, November 17th.
• Efforts to repeal the 1993 law prohibiting homosexuals from openly serving in the military, commonly referenced as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”
• The so-called “DREAM Act,” which would facilitate amnesty for illegal aliens and their extended families.
• New START Treaty — One of Eagle Forum’s greatest concerns is that liberals in the Senate will set a dangerous precedent by attempting to ratify the new START Treaty during the lame duck session.  Eagle Forum was among 33 conservative groups who joined in a memo outlining the concerns with the new START treaty, and urged Congress to refrain from considering it during the lame duck session.  Also, thirteen former U.S. Senators sent a letter to Senate Leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell urging them not to consider the treaty during the lame duck session.

Please stay tuned for further alerts.

Cloture FAILS in Senate Today - Thank Your Senators

From Eagle Forum:

Thank you for your calls and emails to your Senators opposing cloture on the Defense Authorization bill. Cloture failed 56-43. 

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, voted against cloture so that it can be brought up again in the Lame Duck session after the election. His action underscores the plausibility that the three non-germane amendments that would have

• forced taxpayers to pay for abortions on military bases
• provided amnesty to millions of illegal aliens (the Dream Act)
• undermined military readiness by repealing Congress’ 1993 law concerning homosexuals (Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell),

was a political ploy meant to motivate the Democratic base.

Please THANK your Senators who voted “Nay” on cloture on the

Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 (S.3454).