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Territorial Referendum

Topic(s):	Government & Politics
Scope:	National
Author:	Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy Barre, VT
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, 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, Don Sherwood, Paul E. Kanjorski, 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, Russell D. Feingold, 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, Howard Dean, Zell Miller, Dick Cheney
Dates:	07/23/2001 - 01/18/2002
Current Signatures:	23 out of 300

There should be a whole new referendum for five of America's territories on what their status should be. As we all know, Puerto Rico has been arguing about their status for a long time, and the past two referendums show that the territory is evenly split about the decision of becoming a state. The recent Vieques issue may have changed this. In Guam, there is growing support for achieving commonwealth status like Puerto Rico and its nearby neighbors, the Mariana Islands. America Samoa and the U.S. Virgin Islands should also be considered. Please allow a new referendum in the territories of Puerto Rico, Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Ask them if they want to continue their current status, become a commonwealth (if they aren't already), become a state, or become independent nations.

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Already Signed by...

08/21/2002 Alisha Radford; Tulsa, OK
05/29/2002 Ron Eakin; Coalinga, CA
05/19/2002 Jonathan Redding; State College, PA
04/22/2002 Sadie Combs; Atlanta, GA
04/04/2002 Hal Kass; Annapolis, MD
03/01/2002 Deborah Asch; El Cerrito, CA
02/28/2002 Michael Tiger; Oklahoma City, OK
02/15/2002 Charles Hastings; Fullerton, CA
02/10/2002 Kenneth Wood; W-s, NC
01/27/2002 roger miller; La, CA
01/24/2002 Gregory Van Tuyle; Woodbridge, VA
01/05/2002 Kay Powell; Edmond, OK
12/16/2001 Leah Boyer; Franklin, KY
12/03/2001 Jason Pooler; Glens Falls, NY
10/15/2001 b. serell; Boca Raton, FL
10/15/2001 Dale Deso; Altona, NY
09/14/2001 David Haig; Everett, WA
09/04/2001 James Sides; Fort Worth, TX
08/25/2001 Jacob Middleton; San Antonio, TX
08/02/2001 Matt Cook; Portage, MI
07/31/2001 Joel Beebe; Barre, VT
07/24/2001 Andrae Macapinlac; Benicia, CA
07/20/2001 Mark Vanderlinde-Abernathy; Barre, VT

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