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September 22, 2000
Calls Needed to Senator Lott - “Do Not Remove the Inhofe Hold on Clinton Judicial Nominees” 
Life Advocacy Briefing of September 18, 2000 has reported that Oklahoma Republican Senator Jim Inhofe placed a hold Monday on all remaining Clinton judicial nominees. Quoting from the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project (JSMP), the briefing says Sen. Inhofe took the action “because Clinton had ‘acted in deliberate defiance of the Senate’ and ‘trampled on the advice and consent clause of the Constitution” through his abuse of the recess appointment power. Sen. Inhofe did the same thing last year, forcing President Clinton to sign a pledge that he would not appoint controversial nominees while the Senate was in recess; such appointments evade the Senate’s Constitutional power to advise and withhold consent to appointments for posts subject to Senate confirmation. Last November, reports JSMP, the President “broke his pledge, . . . and Sen. Inhofe — with the support of 19 other Senators — followed through on his promise and put holds on all judicial nominees. The move was thwarted by Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) who overruled the holds and proceeded with confirming more Clintonesque judges to the federal bench. Once again, Bill Clinton has made several recess appointments to avoid Senate scrutiny including Bill Lann Lee. Pro-life citizens are needed to phone Senator Trent Lott to express their expectation that he stand behind Senator Inhofe and retain the holds, to insure that no more Clinton judges will be appointed! Capitol Switchboard - 202-224-3121.


Pro-Life Republicans Help Defeat Helms Pro-Life Amendment to China Trade Bill 
From now on, Communist China’s trading status will not be scrutinized by Congress on an annual basis. Instead, China has permanent trading status as well as U.S. approval for its petition to join the World Trade Organization. No longer will China’s persistent human rights abuses and military expansion be a potential obstacle to our consideration of China as a trading partner. Money talks, in this case very loudly. American businesses are making a fortune on the backs of Chinese laborers who manufacture thousands of products dirt cheap which are then imported by the U.S. to be sold at highly inflated prices to American consumers. It is truly becoming difficult to find a product that is not labeled “Made in China.” Pressure for passage of the China trade bill has been so great that an amendment (4128) to HR-4444 expressing the sense of Congress that the President should urge Red China “to cease its forced abortion and forced sterilization policies and practices” and “to cease detention of those who resist abortion or sterilization,” offered by pro-life stalwart Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC) was defeated 53-43. Republican Senators, many of whom have a strong pro-life voting history, who voted against the Helms amendment were: Allard, Bennett, Bond , Brownback, Chafee, Cochran, Craig, Crapo, Domenici, Enzi, Fitzgerald, Frist, Gramm (TX), Grams (MN), Grassley, Hagel, Hatch, Hutchison(TX), Lott, Lugar, Mack, McCain, Murkowski, Nickles, Roberts, Roth, Smith(OR), Stevens, Thomas.

Thank you to Senator Jesse Helms who stands for what is right, no matter what!


Ted Turner, NARAL and Prairie Dogs 
CNN founder Ted Turner has given untold millions of dollars to abortion advocacy groups around the world. Now, he has turned his attention to the upcoming presidential election by funding an effort, run by the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL), to phone 2 million women in key states to persuade them to vote for pro-abortion Democrat Al Gore.

Turner’s advocacy of a mother’s right to kill her unborn baby is in sharp contrast to his defense of the black-tailed prairie dog. On July 17, 2000, USA Today featured Turner in a front page story about his amassing 1.7 million acres of U.S. land in his quest to protect wildlife. According to USA Today, his advocacy for prairie dogs, considered destructive vermin by generations of western cattle ranchers, often puts him at odds with his rural neighbors. But he makes no apologies: “Hey, God put ‘em here for a reason. Who are we to exterminate ‘em?”

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