White House scrambles to defeat bill to defund NSA program

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Call your representative's office (http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/) and tell him to vote for the Amash Amendment to HR 2397 (citing the bill number signals seriousness) and point out that the data for the call is being recorded by the NSA (seriously: the one blanket metadata warrant we've seen is for Verizon's Business unit, which as the D.C. ILEC we can assume provides the Capital Hill land lines).

The guy who answered the phone this morning groked "including the data about this phone call", said the office had been getting quite a few calls on it, and said he'd add me to the tally.

Here is an even easier way to find and call your representative (with a handy script concerning the amendment): http://defundthensa.com/

I don't recommend that, particularly the script, because our unscripted words have more impact.

That site's script is also, say, twice as long as it needs to be. All you need to say is "Amash amendment" and "HR 2397", and add a personal note. I'm not even sure mentioning the Nugent amendment is a good idea, especially since the tally taker might miss-remember your call and place a mark on it or both.

Hmmm, it just occurred to me that a fixed script on a web site like that is silly. They ought to be generating a large number of different ones....

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