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Show The Paper That Dares To Take A Stand Page6 The Utah Independent August 30, 179 Senate Broadens By Patrick Robinson WASHINGTON A bill radically broadening the scope of regional government throughout the U.S. and giving the federal government the power to control the way you use your land has narrowly passed the Senate and only you can compel the House to reject it. The House will take up its regional government bill (H.R. 2063) after reconvening in September; thus, while your representative is at home during the August recess you have the opportunity to personally urge him to vote it down. The House Public Works Committee has already approved the proposal establishing a gargantuan newltgional government bureaucracy and grantand economic development ing it the sweeping powers to control land-us- e . policy. ' Amendments drastically truncating the bill can still be offered on the floor of the House; this tactic nearly succeeded in gutting the bill during the Senate debate. Thus far, however, no representative has surfaced to organize opposition to the bill. More than two months ago, The SPOTLIGHT (June 18) was first to expose the bills ramifications. Patriots mobilized quickly to defeat the Senate bfll (S. 835), which was then under consideration. leading the opposition to the bill were and John Sens. Alan Simpson .). Chafee This (biU, S. 835, will) be a Chafee layer of- regional government, warned. "it's a shadow form of government, Simpson said, a radical alteration that sets political order. up a new, (R-Wy-o.) (R-R.I- . wall-to-w- all - SEN. ALAN SIMPSON non-elect- ed ment entities, from the grass roots in the states to the federal government, will be substituted, Simpson said. Simpson points out that the Senate bill reduces all the states, their elected officials, and citizens, to the status of mere lackeys of the regional commissions which will, in an unprecedented aggrandizement of power, be expanded to blanket the entire U.S. The Senate measure, Simpson revealed, renders each state, its elected officials, and citizens, subservient to the regional commissions (since the bill dictates that) 'each state development plan shall reflect the goals, objectives and priorities established in any regional development plan'. Reducing the states in this mannw to so lowly a degree of subservience has never been accomplished by advocates of regionalism;' even President Richard Nixon's Feb. 10, 1972, executive order, which divided the . states among 10 federal regions, did not go so SEN. JOHN CHAFEE Further, Simpson said, the bills are an Orwellian (usurpation) of "authority by unelected federal bureaucrats. Passage of these regional government bills, in fact, would mean nothing less than abolishing the U.S. Constitution, the states, and our entire traditional way of government, Simpson warns. REPLACE FORM OF GOVT If the bill's provisions are fully imwould replace plemented, Simpson said, it our constitutional form of government. A new, political order coorail d the rest of dinating govern non-elect- ed duly-electe- far. In addition, passage of the bills will give to regionalism the force of law; the executive order on which federal regionalism is based has the status of law, but in truth an executive order is not a law, because laws must be enacted by both houses of Congress (which executive orders are not) and signed by the president. The sole claim to legitmacy executive orders possess is the president's signature. Controlling virtually every economic ity-including the way you use your own land the nationwide chain of regional com-- SAVE THE CANAL WITH A CALL Early in September, Congress will take its final vote on the Panama Canal payaway. The legislation to put these treaties into operation is conference now in a House-Senacommittee and is numbered H.R. te 111. Votes so far on the Panama Canal legislation have been dose, passing by only a few votes. With your hdp, it is still possible to defeat the legislation. At least one letter, right away, to the congressmen listed below could spell victory for the patriots. Liberty Lobby, publisher of SPOTLIGHT, has conducted a scientific computer analysis of each congressmans Panama Canal votes. Twelve important votes on this issue were studied and analyzed. We found many surprises. For example, Rep. ALABAMA John Buchanan ARIZONA John Rhodes CALIFORNIA William Royer GEORGIA Elliott Levitas Billy L. Evans ILLINOIS Marty Russo Robert McClory Tom Railsback INDIANA Philip Sharp Andrew Jacobs KENTUCKY Romano Mazzoli. MARYLAND flarfnff r png MASSACHUSETTS Joseph Early Nic Mavroules MICHIGAN Carl Pursdl Harold Sawyer Donald Albosta John Dingdl MISSOURI Robert Young Richard Gephardt NEW JERSEY James Florio William Hughes H. Hollenbeck John Rhodes . House minority leader, voted almost consistently with those who would give the canal away; and presidential hopeful John Anderson(R-Ill.- ) did not even bother to vote at all. ' Based on Liberty Lobby's computer analysis. The SPOTLIGHT compiled this list of congresmen whose votes will be critical. These are congressmen who first voted to oppose the payaway and later drifted toward support of the treaties. Encourage them to vote to reject the Conference Report on (R-Ariz- .), H.R. 111. . Remind them of the Panamanian governwith Cuba in overthrowment's ing Niduagua. Ask them if they can vote to Panamanian dictator pay the $4 billion to support the Soviet Union and its puppet, Cuba, in the takeover of Latin America. The congressmen to contact are: pro-commun- ist NEW HAMPSHIRE Norman D'Amours . NEW YORK Jerome Ambro Joseph Addabbo Leo Zeferetti William Green NORTH CAROLINA Ike Andrews Stephen Neal Bill Hefner OHIO Thomas Luken OKLAHOMA James Jones Michael Synar PENNSYLVANIA Allen Ertel RHODE ISLAND F. St Germain SOUTH CAROLINA Mendel Davis Ken Holland TENNESSEE William Boner Ed Jones TEXAS J.J. Pickle UTAH Gunn McKay VIRGINIA Robert Mollohan from The Spotlight 300 Independence Avenue SE Washington. DC 20003 activ- |