Americans United for Change Releases New Report

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For Immediate Release August 9, 2007
Contact: Brian Rothenberg, ProgressOhio.org 614-207-3237


Americans United for Change Releases New Report Showing How George Voinovich Obstructs Legislation Benefiting Families, Seniors, Troops

(COLUMBUS)- Americans United for Change and its partner, ProgressOhio.org, held a press conference call today to release a startling new report and to launch a new statewide campaign to highlight Senator George Voinovich’s obstruction of major legislative initiatives favored by a vast majority of Americans and Ohioans. The report, prepared by the Campaign for America’s Future, shows how Sen. Voinovich has stood in the way of legislation that would safely end the war in Iraq, lower prescription drug prices for seniors, and unlock cures to debilitating diseases through expanded stem cell research.

Last week, Campaign for America’s Future joined Americans United for Change and launched a national anti-obstruction campaign targeting Senate Republicans who are using the filibuster and supporting veto threats by the president to thwart popular legislation. The anti-obstruction campaign directly challenges 12 senators over the congressional recess including: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-KY., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., John Sununu, R-N.H., Wayne Allard, R-Colo., Susan Collins, R-Maine, Pete Domenici, R-N.M., Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, John Ensign, R-Nev., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., John Warner, R-VA., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.

“Republicans are employing an unprecedented number of filibusters – on pace to break all historical records in the U.S. Senate – for nothing more than pure politics and to protect their special interest patrons in drug, insurance and oil companies who, above all else, want to protect the trough of corporate welfare they have been feeding at during the last six years of Bush-Republican rule,” said Brian Rothenberg, Executive Director of ProgressOhio.org.

Senate Republicans have launched 43 filibusters on popular reforms in the first seven months of this Congress- that’s on a pace that will triple the previous record. President Bush has threatened 31 vetoes between May 1 and August 1, including a threat to legislation that would extend health care to millions of children, lower interest rates on student loans, and increase monitoring of food and other imports through our nation’s ports.

In addition to the report, the Campaign for America’s Future unveiled a Harry Potter-style video parody starring Jason Alexander, also known as “George Costanza” on the hit television series Seinfeld. The video “catches on tape” the conservative mastermind orchestrating the Republican obstruction.

Click here to watch the Campaign for America’s Future video parody featuring Jason Alexander
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