Sensenbrenner was one of only three Representatives who voted against the USPS Breast Cancer Stamp to raise money for Breast Cancer Research. One out of three American women is affected by Breast Cancer. One out of eight American Women will contract Breast Cancer. In the United States a woman will die from breast cancer on average of one every 13 minutes.

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Women?

Sensenbrenner held up the Passage of an earlier Amber Alert Bill (H.R. 412 was re submitted in early 2003, having languished and expired during the previous Congress) for over a year in the House Judiciary Committee, which he chairs. He claimed he had to hold it up to make the bill “more meaningful” by putting in harsher penalties for sex offenders. He claimed that those were his provisions, but they weren’t, they were Mr. George Gekas’ (R- PA) bill, which passed the House 409 to three on June 25, 2002. The integration of this provision affords judges the discretion to impose lifetime supervision against such offenders. These weren’t harsher penalties as Sensenbrenner claimed, just lifetime supervision that would continue to cost taxpayers money, but leave the offenders on the streets, instead of incarceration to keep them off the streets. But why hold up a bill that passed with such overwhelming support?

In October of 2002, the National Association of Police Organizations reported on the progress of the Amber Alert Bills.

AMBER ALERT LEGISLATION PASSES SENATE BUT FACES PROBLEM IN HOUSE

Note that Representative Sensenbrenner has long claimed that the delays for the Amber Alert legislation were in the Senate, even though he’d held up the original H.R. 412 bill for over a year before the original Senate version passed in the Senate in September 2002, and another House version was introduced in September (for that session of Congress). Sensenbrenner’s version wasn’t even submitted until October.

H.R 5422 also incorporated Rep. Sensenbrenner’s bill H.R. 4477, which passed the House on June 26, 2002, by a vote of 418 to eight. The sex terrorism industry obtains its victims through kidnapping and trafficking of women and children. These women and children are then forced into prostitution. This was supposed to impose more penalties on traffickers. But Sensenbrenner held up that bill to incorporate it into H.R. 5422. Why would Sensenbrenner hold up his own bill when it passed with such overwhelming support?

President Bush, by the way, waived any Saudi Trafficking Sanctions in September of 2005, in spite of their failure to do enough to stop the modern-day slave trade in prostitutes, child sex workers and forced laborers in Saudi Arabia.

Even though Rep. Sensenbrenner controlled two bills that had passed overwhelmingly in the House, with one of them his own, he didn’t work to have those bills be developed in the Senate on their own merit. They were held back for three months in order to incorporate them into his own bill H.R. 5422, which was presented a month after Amber Alert Bills had already been presented in the House and the Senate.

But the Hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security by the House Judiciary Committee wasn’t held until the 107th Congress, Second Session on October 1, 2002. It was passed on 10/08/02. 390-24 with 17 not voting.

The Senate version S 121 passed three months later, on 1/21/03 92-0 with 8 not voting.

So why the delays and why would something like this be so controversial? Well as it turns out, the bill was held up even further because of sweeping sentencing changes which were placed into the final bill, even though those changes were not considered by any committee of either House. It was held up by Rep Sensenbrenner – I believe, because Sensenbrenner wanted to build up so much public outrage against the delays of putting this legislation through, (when it was originally only intended to give quick notice to the public by federal and state agencies so that children could be located in the vital first 72 hours when they were most vulnerable to being assaulted and killed), so that it could be forced through with changes that most members of Congress disagreed with or didn’t even know about until the vote. By then, anyone who voted against the Amber Alert Bill, as manipulated, would be publicly excoriated. What the changes did was to bar the right of judges to have any flexibility in sentencing.

‘When Chief Justice Rehnquist learned of this proposal, he wrote: “this legislation, if enacted, would do serious harm to the basic structure of the sentencing guideline system and would seriously impair the ability of courts to impose just and responsible sentences.” Justice Rehnquist is certainly no liberal. But even his concerns have been brushed aside.

Similar opposition was expressed by the Judicial Conference of the United States, the American Bar Association, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the Washington Legal Foundation, the CATO Institute and many other groups and individuals. All to no avail.’

Statement of the Honorable William D. Delahunt of Massachusetts
Regarding the Conference Report on S. 151, the PROTECT Act of 2003

The combined House and Senate version of the Amber Alert Bill was signed into law on April 30, 2003. Very few voted against it. Unfortunately, the bill didn’t make it mandatory for all states to create an Amber Alert system. It only made funding available to those states which chose to do so and made it possible to network the various systems together.

The changes that were surreptitiously placed into the final Amber Alert bill were all related to issues that Representative Sensenbrenner was pushing for earlier, while competing with other bills which were more thoughtful and judicious, but held back in preference for his own.

But Sensenbrenner’s provisions haven’t accomplished much, prompting Florida and other states to write more comprehensive laws since then. But because of Sensenbrenner’s delays, how many children were sacrificed, in order for Sensenbrenner to take credit for these “improvements”?

Each year in the United States, between 1.3 and 1.8 million children are reported missing. These children may be kidnapped, lost, or runaways. Some are taken by a non-custodial parent. Still others disappear with few clues as to the reason.

Federal and state officials have no idea how many children are missing because they have not perfected reporting techniques that track the numbers of youngsters who have been abducted or have run away, a senior Bush administration official told United Press International.
The lack of accurate, up-to-date data is a result of law enforcement often waiting too long before taking a report from parents or other family members; poor classification of the missing or runaways in state clearinghouse computers; and the fact that federal authorities purge many missing children out of the federal missing people database once they reach age 18, whether they have been located or not.

The most recent figures — from 1999 — show that at that time, more than 750,000 children meeting law enforcement’s definition of missing or runaway had yet to be found.
“If skeletal remains turn up, there is no information because it’s been purged from the system” John Rabun vice president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Children?

Sensenbrenner is against a federal, comprehensive healthcare program that would largely eliminate one of the biggest expenses for businesses, especially small businesses, by providing coverage for catastrophic illnesses that are the cause of one third of all bankruptcies.

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Small Businesses?

Sensenbrenner pushed for the disastrous Medicare Part D Prescription Drug bill that rewards Drug Companies and the Health Care Industry with hundreds of Billions of dollars, by making it illegal for the U.S. Government to negotiate lower prescription drug prices by the HHS Secretary, while cutting off needy Americans from their medication. These are companies that he owns stock in and who regularly donate hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign funds to him, even when his campaigns were uncontested.

Almost two years ago, while waiting for the doors to be opened for a Town hall meeting in Germantown, a young family approached Representative Sensenbrenner to tell him that they had traveled to Washington D.C. to see him at his offices there, only to be told that he had cancelled their meeting, without giving them any advanced notice. They wanted to speak to the Congressman, to plead for his help because of their dying infant daughter. He told them that he would take their questions during the Town hall meeting.

After the meeting started Sensenbrenner took a few questions, then getting to the young mother, who informed Sensenbrenner that their daughter was dying and that doctors told them that her only hope was stem cell research that had been banned because of President Bush’s policies. They begged him to speak to President Bush and appeal to him to allow research to continue. Rep Sensenbrenner told them very bluntly that that was the current policy of the United States and President Bush and he couldn’t do anything about it. He then said that perhaps with a different administration in a few years that policy might change. She responded to him that her daughter “didn’t have that much time to wait”. Sensenbrenner ignored her response, then blew her off and called the next questioner.

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Sick People?

And more importantly – Why Does Sensenbrenner Love Drug Companies? (Maybe it has something to do with his wallet?)

Sensenbrenner tells Americans to use Health Savings Accounts, which are completely funded by the individual’s own savings, with no assistance from any other source.

If you don’t have any savings, you aren’t covered.
If you use up the money in your savings, you aren’t covered.

“In 2003, working Americans with employer-provided health insurance programs saw their premiums increase by nearly 14 percent. It’s no wonder, combined with the increase in unemployment, that more than 40 percent of the 1.4 million newly uninsured in 2004 were middle class.”

• In 2003, more than 90 percent of the 1.6 million American families that filed for bankruptcy were middle-class–more than half named job loss, a health emergency, or divorce as the reason for filing.
Related Survey Results: The Middle Class
Middle-class Americans are literally getting sick over the high cost of healthcare. In 2003, 40 percent of the newly uninsured were “middle class,” and those fortunate enough to have private or employer provided coverage health insurance saw their premiums rise by nearly 14 percent. Today, it’s not just low-income and poor Americans that are finding it difficult to afford quality healthcare for their families; increasingly, the American middle class are becoming the American uninsured as well.
• Senior citizens aren’t the only ones suffering from a lack of health insurance. One in four families with incomes between $55,980 and $74,040 didn’t have health insurance between 2002 and 2003. In fact, there are 18 million middle-age, moderate and high-income Americans without health insurance.
• Nearly 74 percent of the uninsured reside in households with at least one full-time employed adult; and almost two-thirds of the uninsured are, themselves, employed.
Concern about the rising cost of prescription drugs isn’t limited to the elderly – it’s coming between middle-class Americans and their health.
Last updated: June 25, 2004
Related Survey Results: The Middle Class
Yet Sensenbrenner, himself, gets 100% health coverage at no cost to himself, completely funded by you the American Taxpayer. He thinks that you should be responsible for your own health care expenses while he bills YOU for his. All that in spite of the fact that Healthcare costs are consistently polled as being the number one financial issue facing families today.

• When asked “what is the most important financial problem facing your family today,” Americans ranked “lack of money/low wages” number 2 – second only to “health care costs.”
• 74% of Americans believe that the health care system is not meeting the needs of “most Americans.”
• 69% of Americans would be willing to “pay more in federal taxes every year to assure every American receives health care coverage.”
• 54% of Americans believe that “when it comes to economic policy, our first priority should be investing in education, health care, and energy independence.”
Survey Results: The Middle Class
Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Middle-Class Americans, who are begging for Healthcare assistance?

While Sensenbrenner made a trip to China to see how the Chinese have stolen American Technology and Intellectual Property Rights (Theft of IPR are at epidemic levels.). The Chinese are using it to build copycat automobiles which compete against American Automobile manufacturers, and he complained about how it hurt American companies.
But he voted FOR NAFTA (H.R. 3450, Roll #575),
he voted FOR U.S.- Singapore Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 2739, Roll #432),
he voted FOR U.S.- Chile Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 2738, Roll #436),
he voted FOR U.S.- Morocco Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 4842, Roll #413),
and he voted FOR U.S.- Africa / Caribbean Free Trade Agreement (H.R. 434, Roll #145).

He helped to create the outflow of high paying manufacturing jobs. He helped to create the outsourcing problem that we have lost millions of jobs as a result of.

In 2004, Sensenbrenner’s Judiciary Committee even submitted a bill that would allow patent searches to be outsourced!

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate American Workers?

On at least five separate occasions, in Germantown, Cedarburg, Menomonee Falls, Glendale and Mequon Town Hall meetings, I’ve publicly asked Representative Sensenbrenner to investigate and demand that the United States Military stop using Depleted Uranium munitions that are in reality, not depleted at all. It is radioactive waste that disintegrates into the air upon impact and contaminates anyone who breathes the air that has been contaminated by it.

I’ve asked why the U.S. Military has refused to release documents that show that innocent people who are being exposed to this are dying from radiation induced cancers, and being born with genetic mutations because of the exposure. This isn’t limited to Iraqis, but includes our own military who aren’t being provided with proper protective gear, and when they return home, their children are being born with severe birth defects.

260,000 members of the military from the first Gulf War conflict are permanently disabled, with over 20,000 who have died because of “mysterious illnesses”. The Pentagon is denying our military the right to access medical treatment or even testing to determine exposure levels.

After numerous promises from Representative Sensenbrenner to “look into this”, after almost two years, he has to date, refused to respond.

More information on Depleted Uranium can be found here:

http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=3123
http://www.ericblumrich.com/pl_hi.html
http://traprockpeace.org/depleteduranium.html
http://www.yesmagazine.org/25environmentandhealth/rokke.htm

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate Our Military?

Sensenbrenner is against programs that are vitally important to all Americans – predominantly women and children, but which also affect family members who are affected by poorly crafted health problems and anyone who might be their dependents.

And I’m not the only one saying it. The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, an independent, non-partisan, non-profit organization at www.themiddleclass.org , ranks members of Congress based on how their votes affect American Middle Class Families, positively or negatively.

link and link here

Sensenbrenner’s grade for 2004, an election year, was an F. If he didn’t care enough about middle class families during an election year, why should he care when it isn’t an election year? Maybe it’s because most conservatives don’t bother to study the issues, and assume that any Republican will stand up for their middle class family values. Sensenbrenner’s voting record proves that he doesn’t. See for yourself.

Why Does Sensenbrenner Hate American Families?

Why do people stand for this continuous assault on American Families by Representative James Sensenbrenner? Why do people stand for the lies and propaganda which Rep. Sensenbrenner prints, at taxpayer expense, rather than spending the campaign contributions that he is overflowing with?

Write him or call him:

120 Bishops Way, Room 154
Brookfield, WI 53005-6294
Telephone: (262) 784-1111

Outside the Milwaukee Metro calling area, call toll-free HOTLINE number: 1-800-242-1119.
2449 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4905
Telephone: (202) 225-5101

e-mail address is sensenbrenner@mail.house.gov

Or why don’t you ask him in person?

Show up at one of his Town hall meetings that he schedules (sometimes during a workday when working people can’t attend, especially in areas that don’t completely support him).

Go here to find out when he’ll be in a Town hall near you.

Tell him what you think. Ask him hard questions. See what kind of compassion he shows you when he doesn’t agree with you. Maybe he’ll cut off your microphone and turn out the lights when he walks out, while he screams at you.

Then ask yourself: How does a Congressman lead when he won’t even listen to his constituents?

And when you finally get mad enough to do something about it, go to www.bk2006.org and volunteer or donate to Bryan Kennedy’s campaign to help defeat Senselessbrenner this fall!!