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Make a Difference!!! - Support Hate Crimes Legislation and Fight Gay Discrimination!!!

Topic(s):	Society, Culture & Values
Scope:	National
Author:	Steven Bielinski Scranton, PA
Recipients:	Ted Stevens, Frank H. Murkowski, Don Young, Richard C. Shelby, Jeff Sessions, Sonny Callahan, Terry Everett, Bob Riley, Robert B. Aderholt, Robert E. Cramer Jr., Spencer T. Bachus III, Tim Hutchinson, Blanche Lambert Lincoln, Marion Berry, Vic Snyder, Asa Hutchinson, Jay Dickey, John McCain, Jon Kyl, Matt Salmon, Ed Pastor, Bob Stump, John Shadegg, Jim Kolbe, J. D. Hayworth, Dianne Feinstein, Barbara Boxer, Mike Thompson, Wally Herger, Doug Ose, John T. Doolittle, Robert T. Matsui, Lynn Woolsey, George Miller, Nancy Pelosi, Barbara J. Lee, Ellen O. Tauscher, Richard W. Pombo, Tom Lantos, Pete Stark, Anna G. Eshoo, Tom Campbell, Zoe Lofgren, Sam Farr, Gary A. Condit, George P. Radanovich, Calvin M. Dooley, William M. Thomas, Lois Capps, Elton Gallegly, Brad Sherman, Howard P. McKeon, Howard L. Berman, David Dreier, Henry A. Waxman, Xavier Becerra, Matthew Martinez, Julian Dixon, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Grace F. Napolitano, Maxine Waters, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Stephen Horn, Edward R. Royce, Jerry Lewis, Gary G. Miller, Joe Baca, Ken Calvert, Mary Bono, Dana Rohrabacher, Loretta Sanchez, Christopher Cox, Brian Bilbray, Bob Filner, Randy Cunningham, Duncan Hunter, Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Wayne Allard, Diana L. DeGette, Mark Udall, Scott McInnis, Bob Schaffer, Tom Tancredo, Christopher J. Dodd, Joseph I. Lieberman, John B. Larson, Rosa L. DeLauro, Christopher Shays, Nancy L. Johnson, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Joseph R. Biden, Michael N. Castle, Bob Graham, Connie Mack, Joe Scarborough, Tillie Fowler, Karen L. Thurman, Clifford B. Stearns, John L. Mica, Bill McCollum, C. W. Young, James O. Davis, Porter J. Goss, Dave Weldon, Mark Foley, Carrie P. Meek, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Robert Wexler, Peter Deutsch, E. Shaw, Alcee L. Hastings, Max Cleland, Jack Kingston, Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Michael A. Collins, Cynthia A. McKinney, Johnny Isakson, Bob Barr, Saxby Chambliss, Nathan Deal, Charlie Norwood, John Linder, Daniel K. Akaka, Neil Abercrombie, Patsy T. Mink, Charles E. Grassley, Tom Harkin, James A. Leach, Jim Nussle, Leonard L. Boswell, Greg Ganske, Tom Latham, Larry E. Craig, Michael D. Crapo, Mike Simpson, Richard J. Durbin, Peter G. Fitzgerald, Bobby L. Rush, Jesse L. Jackson Jr., William O. Lipinski, Luis V. Gutierrez, Rod R. Blagojevich, Henry J. Hyde, Philip M. Crane, Janice D. Schakowsky, John Porter, Gerald C. Weller, Jerry F. Costello, Judy Biggert, J. Dennis Hastert, Donald A. Manzullo, Lane Evans, Ray LaHood, David D. Phelps, John M. Shimkus, Richard G. Lugar, Evan Bayh, Peter J. Visclosky, David McIntosh, Tim Roemer, Mark Souder, Stephen E. Buyer, John N. Hostettler, Baron Hill, Julia M. Carson, Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts, Jerry Moran, Jim Ryun, Dennis Moore, Todd Tiahrt, Mitch McConnell, Jim Bunning, Edward Whitfield, Ron Lewis, Anne Meagher Northup, Ken Lucas, Harold Rogers, Ernest Fletcher, John B. Breaux, Mary L. Landrieu, David Vitter, William J. Jefferson, W. J. Tauzin, Jim McCrery, John C. Cooksey, Richard H. Baker, Christopher C. John, Edward M. Kennedy, John F. Kerry, John W. Olver, Richard E. Neal, James P. McGovern, Barney Frank, Martin T. Meehan, John F. Tierney, Edward J. Markey, Michael E. Capuano, John Moakley, William D. Delahunt, Paul S. Sarbanes, Barbara A. Mikulski, Wayne T. Gilchrest, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Benjamin L. Cardin, Albert R. Wynn, Steny H. Hoyer, Roscoe G. Bartlett, Elijah E. Cummings, Constance A. Morella, Olympia J. Snowe, Susan M. Collins, Thomas H. Allen, John E. Baldacci, Carl Levin, Bart Stupak, Peter Hoekstra, Vernon J. Ehlers, Dave Camp, James A. Barcia, Fred Upton, Nick Smith, Deborah Stabenow, Dale E. Kildee, David E. Bonior, Joe Knollenberg, Sander M. Levin, Lynn N. Rivers, John Conyers Jr., John D. Dingell, Paul D. Wellstone, Gil Gutknecht, Jim Ramstad, Bruce Vento, Martin Olav Sabo, James L. Oberstar, Christopher S. Bond, James Talent, Richard A. Gephardt, Ike Skelton, Karen McCarthy, Jo Ann Emerson, Kenny Hulshof, Thad Cochran, Trent Lott, Roger F. Wicker, Bennie G. Thompson, Charles W. Pickering Jr., Max S. Baucus, Conrad Burns, Jesse A. Helms, John Edwards, Eva M. Clayton, Bob Etheridge, Walter B. Jones, David E. Price, Richard M. Burr, Mike McIntyre, Robert C. Hayes, Sue Myrick, Thomas Cass Ballenger, Charles H. Taylor, Melvin L. Watt, Kent Conrad, Byron L. Dorgan, Earl Pomeroy, Bob Kerrry, Chuck Hagel, Doug Bereuter, Lee Terry, Robert Smith, Judd Gregg, John E. Sununu, Charles F. Bass, Pete V. Domenici, Jeff Bingaman, Heather A. Wilson, Joe Skeen, Tom Udall, Harry M. Reid, Richard Bryan, Shelley Berkley, Jim Gibbons, Daniel Moynihan, Charles E. Schumer, Michael Forbes, Rick Lazio, Peter T. King, Carolyn McCarthy, Gary L. Ackerman, Gregory W. Meeks, Joseph Crowley, Jerrold Nadler, Anthony Weiner, Edolphus Towns, Major R. Owens, Nydia M. Velazquez, Vito J. Fossella Jr., Carolyn B. Maloney, Charles B. Rangel, Jose E. Serrano, Eliot L. Engel, Nita M. Lowey, Sue W. Kelly, Benjamin A. Gilman, Michael R. McNulty, John E. Sweeney, Sherwood L. Boehlert, John M. McHugh, James T. Walsh, Maurice D. Hinchey, Thomas M. Reynolds, Louise M. Slaughter, John J. LaFalce, Jack Quinn, Amo Houghton, Mike DeWine, George V. Voinovich, Steve Chabot, Rob Portman, Tony P. Hall, Michael G. Oxley, Paul E. Gillmor, Ted Strickland, David L. Hobson, John A. Boehner, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis J. Kucinich, John Kasich, Sherrod Brown, Thomas C. Sawyer, Deborah Pryce, Ralph Regula, Robert W. Ney, Steven C. LaTourette, Don Nickles, James M. Inhofe, Steve Largent, Wes W. Watkins, J. C. Watts Jr., Ernest J. Istook Jr., Frank D. Lucas, Ron Wyden, Gordon H. Smith, David Wu, Greg Walden, Earl Blumenauer, Peter A. DeFazio, Darlene Hooley, Arlen Specter, Rick Santorum, Robert A. Brady, Chaka Fattah, Robert A. Borski, Ron Klink, John E. Peterson, Tim Holden, Curt Weldon, James C. Greenwood, Bud Shuster, John P. Murtha, Joseph M. Hoeffel III, Patrick Joseph Toomey, Joseph R. Pitts, George W. Gekas, Mike Doyle, William Goodling, Frank R. Mascara, Phil English, Lincoln D. Chafee, Jack Reed, Robert Weygand, Strom Thurmond, Ernest F. Hollings, Marshall Sanford, Floyd D. Spence, Lindsey O. Graham, Jim DeMint, John M. Spratt Jr., Thomas A. Daschle, Tim Johnson, John R. Thune, Fred Thompson, Bill Frist, William L. Jenkins, John J. Duncan Jr., Zach Wamp, Van Hilleary, Robert Nelson Clement, Bart Gordon, Ed Bryant, John S. Tanner, Harold E. Ford Jr., Phil Gramm, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Max Sandlin, Jim Turner, Sam Johnson, Ralph M. Hall, Pete Sessions, Joe Barton, Kevin Brady, Nick Lampson, Lloyd Doggett, Kay Granger, William M. Thornberry, Ron Paul, Silvestre Reyes, Charles W. Stenholm, Sheila Jackson Lee, Larry Combest, Charlie Gonzalez, Lamar Smith, Tom DeLay, Henry Bonilla, Martin Frost, Ken Bentsen, Richard K. Armey, Solomon P. Ortiz, Ciro D. Rodriguez, Gene Green, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Orrin G. Hatch, Robert F. Bennett, James V. Hansen, Merrill Cook, Christopher B. Cannon, John W. Warner, Herbert Bateman, Robert C. Scott, Norman Sisisky, Virgil Goode, Bob Goodlatte, James P. Moran, Rick Boucher, Frank R. Wolf, Thomas Davis, Patrick Leahy, James Jeffords, Bernard Sanders, Slade Gorton, Patty Murray, Jay Inslee, Brian Baird, Doc Hastings, George R. Nethercutt Jr., Norm Dicks, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith, Herb Kohl, Paul Ryan, Tammy Baldwin, Ron Kind, Jerry Kleczka, Thomas M. Barrett, Thomas E. Petri, David R. Obey, Mark Green, F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Robert C. Byrd, John D. Rockefeller IV, Alan B. Mollohan, Bob Wise, Nick J. Rahall II, Craig Thomas, Michael B. Enzi, Barbara Cubin, Thomas Ridge, Zell Miller, Dick Cheney
Dates:	06/03/2001 - 10/18/2001
Current Signatures:	71 out of 100

The legal term "hate crimes" refers to violent crimes that involve bias, and hate crimes perpetrators usually face harsher sentences than other criminals. Current federal hate crimes law covers only color, national origin, race, and religion. In 22 states and Washington D.C., sexual orientation is already a protected category. But roughly the same number of states exclude sexual orientation, and the remainder have no hate crimes laws at all. The Hate Crimes Prevention Act, which would add sexual orientation along with gender and disability as categories protected under federal hate crimes law, got stalled in Congress last year, despite the Clinton-Gore administration's efforts to pass it. Please, I urge all of the nation's federal and state representatives to take a stand against hate and discrimination and support this pivotal legislation. In the names of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, we can no longer tolerate this type of crimes that affects a community at large. These incidents terrorize a community and instill fear in minority groups. These crimes are often not investigated and/or prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law due to bias at the local level. I urge all to put yourself in the shoes of these vulnerable minorities, and please show your support for the enactment of this deeply important and needed legislation. Thank you for your time in the reading of our support in this worthy endeavor.

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