To: Rep. Lacy Clay Jr. (MO-1), Rep. Blaine Leutkemeyer (MO-3), Rep. Sam Graves (MO-6), President Donald Trump, Rep. Ann Wagner (MO-2), Rep. Vicky Hartzler (MO-4), Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5), Rep. Billy Long (MO-7), Rep. Jason Smith (MO-8), ...
Missouri's Delegation of the 113th U.S. Congress: Grow Up!
Because you represent Missouri in Washington, we petition you to:
1) Meet as a joint delegation or state caucus and agree among yourselves to resurrect the notion of Missouri as a bellwether—at least insofar as concerns the present budgetary, fiscal, and economic crisis.
2) Call a press conference to hear the consensus of the people of Missouri, namely that the current situation is:
a) Completely unacceptable;
b) The fault of the House of Representatives because it did not conduct its business in a proper and timely manner;
c) Wholly untenable and irresponsible as fiscal policy or an economic condition of any duration; and
d) A situation that only all of Congress working jointly—NOT the President—can remedy.
3) Issue a call to action asking other state delegations to join you in similar statements.
4) Set a time and date within the next two days for a meeting of all representatives AND senators who wish to resolve the budgetary and debt ceiling problems; then, get it together and actually do the work for which we elect and pay you.
5) By Friday, October 4, 2013, you emerge from conference with a finished bipartisan, bicameral budget and full agreement to do away with all future debt ceiling limits—without penalizing the American people with further futile attempts to kill the duly enacted and constitutionally proven Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
For God's and the people's sake, act like statesmen, not the mewling adolescents you have been!
1) Meet as a joint delegation or state caucus and agree among yourselves to resurrect the notion of Missouri as a bellwether—at least insofar as concerns the present budgetary, fiscal, and economic crisis.
2) Call a press conference to hear the consensus of the people of Missouri, namely that the current situation is:
a) Completely unacceptable;
b) The fault of the House of Representatives because it did not conduct its business in a proper and timely manner;
c) Wholly untenable and irresponsible as fiscal policy or an economic condition of any duration; and
d) A situation that only all of Congress working jointly—NOT the President—can remedy.
3) Issue a call to action asking other state delegations to join you in similar statements.
4) Set a time and date within the next two days for a meeting of all representatives AND senators who wish to resolve the budgetary and debt ceiling problems; then, get it together and actually do the work for which we elect and pay you.
5) By Friday, October 4, 2013, you emerge from conference with a finished bipartisan, bicameral budget and full agreement to do away with all future debt ceiling limits—without penalizing the American people with further futile attempts to kill the duly enacted and constitutionally proven Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
For God's and the people's sake, act like statesmen, not the mewling adolescents you have been!
Why is this important?
This petition is the only thing I can think to do that both expresses my displeasure about today's state of affairs in Washington, DC, and proposes what I believe is a completely reasonable solution.
I have already sent an open letter to members of the delegation through their websites or Facebook pages. But, of course, they'll feel free to ignore a plea from a single constituent--no matter how enraged he is by their irresponsible behavior.
I have already sent an open letter to members of the delegation through their websites or Facebook pages. But, of course, they'll feel free to ignore a plea from a single constituent--no matter how enraged he is by their irresponsible behavior.