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Congressional Outreach:
Help Save Human Mars Exploration Funding! As a result of cost overruns in the Space Station program, NASA headquarters has issued an order to stop or eliminate all technology development projects supporting human Mars exploration. Without these programs, we cannot lay the ground-work for a human mission to Mars anytime soon. This action must be reversed! Click here for the complete text.
Congressional meetings: The following strategy evolved out of a discussion with Dr. Robert Zubrin on how to set up, present at and run a meeting with a congressman: Making Contact: Call the office. Say you'd like to set up an appointment to talk about the space program/Mars Society/humanity's future in space. You'll be bounced around the office for a while until you come to someone important. Give them the same information about your intent. They will most likely ask you to send them a letter. Have one ready ( I'll try to prepare one) and fax it to them. Follow up with a call about two days later. You should have an appointment by now (it may only be for half an hour, but that's enough). If you can't make the date they've set up, accept anyway. Find people who can attend. What to Bring: Photocopies of Newspaper articles:
Be prepared to discuss what we want - an outline of our goals and why we've asked to speak with them. From the bulletin sent out a few days ago:
As for how to steer the discussion, use your judgement - the approach will be different for a liberal democrat versus a conservative republican. Contact information for the New England Chapter states Full addresses are given below.
Senators
Representitives Click here to utilize the zip code lookup of your congressional representative, from the US House of Representatives. District Name Affiliation Connecticut 1 Barbara B. Kennelly D 2 Sam Gejdenson D 3 Rosa L. DeLauro D 4 Cristoper Shays R 5 James H. Maloney D 6 Nancy L. Johnson R Maine 1 Thomas H. Allen D 2 John Elias Baldacci D Massachusetts 1 John W. Olver D 2 Richard E. Neal D 3 James P. McGovern D 4 Barney Frank D 5 Martin T. Meehan D 6 John F. Tierny D 7 Edward J. Markey D 8 Joseph P, Kennedy, Jr. D 9 John Joseph Moakley D 10 William K. Delahunt D New Hampshire 1 John E. Sununu R 2 Charles F. Bass R Rhode Island 1 Patrick J. Kennedy D 2 Robert A. Weygand D Vermont At Large Bernard Sanders None Purpose: The New England Congressional Outreach branch serves to organize the political actions of the New England Chapter of the Mars Society. Together the members have much more effect than they could acting singularly. The main tool of this organizaton is the letter. Current projects include a letter writing campaign to support the adoption by the US Senate of House Resolution 572, a measure authorizing private reusable vehicles, and letters to each the candidates for legislative office. Future projects include personal visits to congressional offices after the election season. You can read our Founding Declaration by clicking here. |
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