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Call Congress Now to Support Moon and Mars Exploration
July 21, 2004 for further information about the Mars
Society, visit our website at www.marssociety.org.

At this critical moment, you need to show your support
for human space exploration by taking action.

Yesterday, July 20, the House Appropriations
subcommittee in charge of civil space recommended that
NASA's budget be cut by 7% from requested levels.
That's a cut of over $1 billion, with the new human
Moon and Mars exploration budget taking the worst
hits.

This is unacceptable. But it is not over yet. There is
another meeting of the full committee that can review
this first recommendation on Thursday, and it is
essential that you let them know how you feel.

What can you do? Call Congress today or tomorrow,
especially if you are a constituent of the
representatives on the committee. Tell them that you
support full funding of the NASA fiscal year budget
request.

The House switchboard is: 202-225-3121. They can
connect you to any the office of any representative.
First, look over the list below, and make sure to call
your representative if you see them on the list. But
call regardless! There is very little time and we must
act fast.

The members of the committee are listed below. Call
now. It's not too late to turn this decision around.

Tell them you want all NASA requested funds for
initiating human exploration of the Moon and Mars
restored to the budget.

The American space program needs a goal, and that goal
needs to be humans to Mars. Without setting our sights
on such a goal, and starting work, we will have still
more years and decades of wasteful aimless activity,
with our human spaceflight program just going around
in circles. That is iresponsible.

The American people want and deserve a space program
that is really going somewhere. Approving these funds
is the necessary first step towards giving the space
program the direction to make that happen.

Robert Zubrin
President, Mars Society
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House Appropriations Committee

C. W. Bill Young, FL (R - Chairman) David R. Obey, WI
(D - Ranking
Member)
Ralph Regula, OH (R) John P. Murtha, PA (D)
Jerry Lewis, CA (R) Norman D. Dicks, WA (D)
Harold Rogers, KY (R) Martin Olav Sabo, MN (D)
Frank R. Wolf, VA (R) Steny H. Hoyer, MD (D)
Jim Kolbe, AZ (R) Alan B. Mollohan, WV (D)
James Walsh, NY (R) Marcy Kaptur, OH (D)
Charles H. Taylor, NC (R) Peter J. Visclosky, IN (D)
David L. Hobson, OH (R) Nita M. Lowey, NY (D)
Ernest J. Istook, Jr., OK (R) Jose E. Serrano, NY (D)
Henry Bonilla, TX (R) Rosa L. DeLauro, CT (D)
Joe Knollenberg, MI (R) James P. Moran, VA (D)
Jack Kingston, GA (R) John W. Olver, MA (D)
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, NJ (R) Ed Pastor, AZ (D)
Roger F. Wicker, MS (R) David E. Price, NC (D)
George R. Nethercutt, Jr., WA (R) Chet Edwards, TX (D)

Randy "Duke" Cunningham, CA (R) Robert E. "Bud"
Cramer, Jr., AL (D)
Todd Tiahrt, KS (R) Patrick J. Kennedy, RI (D)
Zach Wamp, TN (R) James E. Clyburn, SC (D)
Tom Latham, IA (R) Maurice D. Hinchey, NY (D)
Anne Northup, KY (R) Lucille Roybal- Allard, CA (D)
Robert Aderholt, AL (R) Sam Farr, CA (D)
Jo Ann Emerson, MO (R) Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., IL (D)
Kay Granger, TX (R) Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, MI (D)
John E. Peterson, PA (R) Allen Boyd, FL (D)
Virgil Goode, VA (R) Chaka Fattah, PA (D)
John Doolittle, CA (R) Steven R. Rothman, NJ (D)
Ray LaHood, IL (R) Sanford D. Bishop, Jr., GA (D)
John Sweeney, NY (R) Marion Berry, AR (D)
David Vitter, LA (R)
Don Sherwood, PA (R)
Dave Weldon, FL (R)
Michael K. Simpson, ID (R)
John Abney Culberson, TX (R)
Mark Steven Kirk, IL (R)
Ander Crenshaw, FL (R)

For further information about the Mars Society, visit
our website at www.marssociety.org.





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