UPDATE Re: Legislation in Congress

The Friends Committee on National Legislation (a Quaker organization) recently sent out the following as part of an urgent call to action: "If, in the next few weeks, we can persuade at least 100 representatives to cosponsor the McGovern-Jones Exit Strategy bill, they may be able to attach that war-ending provision to the supplemental war funding bill, which Congress will vote on in the next several months.

We oppose the war spending supplemental. We urge representatives to vote against the $33 billion for war. Whether a representative is able to do that or not, however, he or she should be able to cosponsor and vote for the bipartisan McGovern-Jones Exit Strategy bill. We need you to ask your representative to do that now."

(See the Action Alert on the FCNL web site here: http://www.fcnl.org/action/alert.htm

(Please also see my comments about this legislation in my main post, below, directly below the second video in the post.)