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May 9th, House Armed Services Committee voted to fund the CMRR nuclear bomb plant at Los Alamos
Contact your Representative to OPPOSE funding for this unnecessary nuclear bomb plant.
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Action Alert! -- Action Alert! -- Action Alert!
May 9th, House Armed Services Committee voted to fund the CMRR nuclear bomb plant at Los Alamos
Contact your Representative to OPPOSE funding for this unnecessary nuclear bomb plant.

From the Campaign for a Nuclear Weapons Free World (via Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety in Santa Fe)

On Wednesday, May 9th, the House Armed Services Committee voted to fund the CMRR nuclear bomb plant at Los Alamos. Now we have to take our campaign to the House floor to strip those funds back out.

This bill is going to the floor of the House on Wed, May 16, and Congress has a chance to stop these increases. We could have the votes we need to make cuts, but it is urgent that all representatives hear from their constituents before Wednesday.

Thank you to everyone who got calls into members of the committee this week. Representatives Loretta Sanchez (D-CA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Rob Andrews (D-NJ) and others fought hard to stop the Los Alamos bomb plant and to cut other funding for nuclear weapons, but unfortunately the Republicans had the votes to win. But we've got to do everything we can to make sure they don't get the last word.

Please forward the action alert below to your members and ask them to call their representatives before Wednesday. Or you can get more information to write your own alert here: Nuclear Weapons Budget Webpage . It can be a very simple message. We just need representatives to hear that they should "vote to cut funding for nuclear weapons and new bomb plants."

ACTION ALERT
Stop New Nuclear Bomb Plants

Some members of Congress are currently pushing to build a huge plutonium facility for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, even though President Obama proposed postponing its construction for at least five years.

There is no need for the plant, yet it would cost over $5 billion to complete. But on May 16, Congress will decide whether or not to fund construction for next year.

Please call your representative today and ask her or him to oppose funding for this unnecessary nuclear bomb plant. You can also add your own thoughts about funding nuclear weapons. But, please call before Wednesday, May 16!

Call your representative through the capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. If you don't know who your representative is click here: www.house.gov/representatives/find/ .

Here is a suggested message:

"My name is ____ and I live in _____. I am calling to ask Rep. ____ to "vote to cut funding for nuclear weapons and new bomb plants."

Please call your representative today and keep their phones ringing off the hook.

We can't let them slip this wasteful funding under the radar. Please help us stop this unnecessary bomb plant from being built.

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