• Thank them for removing H.R. 5360 from the House "suspension calendar" today.
• Urge them to keep it off of the coming calendars!

Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert    202-225-2976
FAX: 202- 225-0697

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay    202-225-5951
FAX: 202- 226-5241

Majority Whip Roy Blunt    202 - 225-0197
FAX: 202- 226-1115

PLEASE CALL OR FAX YOUR OWN MEMBER OF CONGRESS: Their contact information is listed here.

• Urge them to ask leadership to keep H.R. 5360 off of the calendar.
• H.R. 5360 has had no House hearings.
• No opposition testimony has been heard in the House to this piece of legislation, or to its precursor, H.R. 1078. (See below for talking points.)
• If it comes up, urge them to ask for a roll call vote, to speak against it, and to vote against it.

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2. House ready to prohibit funding for universal mental health screening

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas has championed the effort to prohibit federal funding for universal mental health screening. The Liberty Committee (Cong. Ron Paul is the Chairman) has issued the following alert:

ACTION ALERT

November 17, 2004

Your efforts are paying off!  After over 7,600 messages from us(!), the House leadership supports the Paul language prohibiting the funding of mandatory mental-health screening.  In fact, key members of the House leadership attempted to add Dr. Paul's language to the omnibus spending bill, but some members of the Senate objected.

So now the question of whether your kids can be subjected to forced psychological testing -- and perhaps even forced drugging -- rests in the hands of the U.S. Senate.

We have little time left.  The final version of the omnibus spending bill will likely be agreed upon this Friday morning.  Between now and then, we must convince senators to add Congressman Paul's language to it.

Just as we convinced the House leadership to support the Paul language, we must now go to work to convince the Senate.

Urge your two U.S. senators to support the Paul language to the omnibus spending bill.  The language is as follows:  "None of the funds made available for State incentive grants for transformation should be used for any programs of mandatory or universal mental-health screening that performs mental-health screening on anyone under 18 years of age without the express, written permission of the parents or legal guardians of each individual involved."

Here's the checklist: