CSE Impact Update 2.35

CSE Welcomes Secretaries Gale Norton and Spencer Abraham at CSE’s Board Dinner

On November 7, CSE will host Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham at our fall Board dinner. Both attendees will be recognized for their dedicated work on important issues such as reigning in detrimental environmental regulations with respect to public and private lands, and policies that stifle the production and use of energy so vital to economic prosperity.

Following the Board dinner, on November 8, CSE will conduct its Board meeting in which special guest, Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisors, Glenn R. Hubbard will address attendees.

CSE Key Issues for November

During the month of November, CSE will concentrate on a number of key issues and will turn up the heat on members of Congress by putting our grassroots army to work. CSE activists will call on their senators to pass an economic security bill, which should expedite President Bush’s tax cut and make it permanent, cut the capital gains and Alternative Minimum taxes and provide incentives for investments in new capital. Activists will work to persuade senators that the time is ripe to ensure economic growth by allowing for the increase production of domestic energy sources. On this note, CSE activists will request that senators refrain from passing Senator Jeffords’, Clean Smokestack Act (S. 556), which would essentially limit the production and use of energy. We will continue our campaign to pass Trade Promotion Authority, and insist Congress refrain from pork barrel spending while debating these pieces of legislation and the remaining appropriation bills. For more information on CSE’s November message, visit http://www.cse.org/informed/2051.html.

CSE Key Votes Amendment to Airline Security Act (H.R. 3150)

CSE President and CEO Paul Beckner issued a Key Vote Alert (which determines CSE’s yearly Jefferson Award winners) to members of Congress this week asking them to reject the Oberstar/Ganske Amendment to H.R. 3150, which would federalize 28,000 airline security workers. Beckner wrote, “VOTE NO ON THE OBERSTAR/GANSKE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3150, THE ‘SECURE TRANSPORTATION FOR AMERICA ACT.’ Any amendment to this affect ignores the Israeli and European airport security experience and attempts to mollify public fears by turning airport security over to a stagnant and unresponsive federal bureaucracy.”