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M E M O R A N D U M

TO: National Officers
Supervisory National Service Officers
Department Commanders and Adjutants
National Legislative Interim Committee
Benefits Protection Team Leaders
State Directors of Veterans Affairs
Hospital Service Coordinators
DAVA National Adjutant
DAV CAN Members

FROM: Joseph A. Violante, National Legislative Director

SUBJ: URGENT! IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED!

DATE: March 12, 2003

To pay for the Bush Administration's $1.7 trillion tax reduction lan, the majority leadership and Budget Committee Chairman in the United States House of Representatives are pushing a fiscal year 2004 budget resolution that would drastically slash veterans and other Federal programs. This budget resolution would require reductions in spending on discretionary programs such as veterans' medical care and would also require the Veterans' Affairs Committees to report legislation to eliminate or cut mandatory programs such as disability compensation.

Contact your House member today to express your strong objections to this outrageous action. Ask your representative for a commitment to oppose and vote against any budget resolution that cuts veterans' programs. We recommend that you contact your representative by telephone if possible, but, if you have Internet access, you may send an e-mail from DAV's web site at www.dav.org. Click on "Legislative Action & You," then "Advocacy in Action." Click on the alert entitled "Budget Resolution Threatens Future of Veterans' Programs," and enter your zip code in the box provided.

As always, thank you for your support.



___________/s/____________
JOSEPH A. VIOLANTE
National Legislative Director

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Click on "Legislative Action & You," then "Advocacy in Action." Click on the alert entitled "Budget Resolution Threatens Future of Veterans' Programs,"
Don't let Bush pay for this Military by cutting the past veterans that got us here!!!!!!!!!!

Semper Fi
Billy Joe