Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on\u00a0the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA). This proposed NDAA would spend $640 billion more than permitted by law, $billions more than the Pentagon has asked for. This is unconscionable!<\/p>\n
Please call your Representative at\u00a0202-224-3121<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and tell him or her to support amendments to\u00a0audit and tighten the Pentagon budget\u00a0<\/strong>(while protecting healthcare and other programs for troops and veterans), rein in the\u00a0lethal drones<\/strong>program, and\u00a0end the Authorization for Use of Military Force<\/strong>\u00a0(AUMF) that gave a green light to the past decade of endless warfare.<\/p>\n Use your own words<\/strong>, but please emphasize that in this era of austerity–with sequester-driven cuts to Food Stamps, education, healthcare–many in Congress want to throw money at the Pentagon.\u00a0Please ask your Representative to support pending amendments which would: * Cut Pork–unnecessary boondoggle weapons systems including the F-35 fighter plane, the V-22 Osprey device and the Abrams tank.<\/p>\n * Eliminate nuclear weapons and provocative foreign military bases<\/p>\n * Rein in the lethal drones program<\/p>\n * End the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)<\/p>\n Call your Representative’s DC office at\u00a0202-224-3121<\/a><\/strong>, starting\u00a0Monday\u00a0between\u00a09 AM and 6 PM ET\u00a0(6 AM and 3 PM PT).\u00a0Find their district office number<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0You can also use PDA\u2019s\u00a0action alert to support H.R. 198 to\u00a0Repeal the AUMF<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tomorrow, the House of Representatives will vote on\u00a0the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (NDAA). This proposed NDAA would spend $640 billion more than permitted by law, $billions more than the Pentagon has asked for. This is unconscionable! Please call your Representative at\u00a0202-224-3121\u00a0and tell him or her to support amendments to\u00a0audit and tighten the Pentagon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pep"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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\n* Audit the Pentagon<\/strong><\/p>\n