Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Coburn Amendment to Exclude Museums

[Historic NY]

Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Coburn Amendment to Exclude Museums!

Senate Amendment to Bar Museums From Any Economic Recovery Funds
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has introduced an amendment to prohibit any funds in the economic stimulus bill from going to museums.

The language of the amendment, (Amendment No. 175, as filed) is, "None of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act may be used for any casino or other gambling establishment, aquarium, zoo, golf course, swimming pool, stadium, community park, museum, theater, arts center, or highway beautification project, including renovation, remodeling, construction, salaries, furniture, zero-gravity chairs, big screen televisions, beautification, rotating pastel lights, and dry heat saunas."

This amendment may be offered as early as Wednesday, February 4. Call your Senators TODAY and urge them to vote NO on the Coburn "Limitation of Funds Amendment No. 175." To reach your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 and ask for your Senators' offices.

Please call today!

Click HERE to use your zip code to identify your legislators.

http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=aam&entry=search

** hey they are lots of patriotic museums out there that depending on funds to keep the lights on and the doors open. In these tough economic time people stay close to home & these places see more people.

[AlinPA]

1. ..."except dumbass Creation Museums which will be built ASAP"

[Double T]

2. Oh by ALL MEANS, let's SQUASH science and history!!!

coburn is a giant a-hole!

[Telly Savalas]

3. Thank goodness someone has the sense to stand up for us

and try keep the stimulus package from funding zero-gravity chairs. Not to mention the proposed ban on rotating pastel lights.

Thank you, Sen. Coburn.

[Confusious]

4. You know

Somehow I knew it was a ass-backward idiot from oklahoma.

[lapopessa]

5. I would, but

I don't have a senator. I work in a museum in DC.

[snot]

6. K&R'd - and, status as of Thur. Feb. 5?