----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, 2001-06-05 15:34 Subject: Yahoo! Clubs Metric America > Dear Friends: > Your help right this moment is needed. Congressman Ehlers is right now pushing his bill to require that all businesses contracting with NASA and certain other agencies must use only metric measurements. > > He has put some teeth in his bill. His bill provides that if there should be another loss to the government due to a business failing to use metric (the Mars mission disaster due to Lockheed using non-metric!) then the business will be expected to repay the government for all the loss! > > Ehlers was a guest on my radio show today for 30 minutes. (My show is on http://www.wjgr.com each weekday, 0900--1200.) He said that he wants to see Congressional action to mandate complete U.S. metrication, but he will do as much as he can, step by step, hoping we might stir up others to work with him. I was wrong in some of what I said about Ehlers. It turns out he is 100% pro-metric and in favor of Congressional action. He will do what he can get away with doing. But he needs our help. > > Please contact Congress Ehlers to indicate your support. Please ask your own member of Congress to sign on as a co-sponsor. Please contact all members of the U.S. House Committee on Science to ask each of them to sign on as co-sponsors. > > Please consider contacting Ehlers, also, to offer to go to D.C. to participate in Committee Hearings, if he things he needs it. And of course, if you have time to go to D.C., surely Ehlers would look better among his colleagues if some of us were to go visit D.C. for a few days, visiting as many House offices as possible in support of the bill. > > Beyond that, if you have a friend in the U.S. Senate, then please ask your friend to consider sponsoring a companion bill. It ain't much fun for Ehlers to spend his energy on this when there is no companion bill down the hall. > > I promise I will make a pitch to at least 3 Senators. I hope some of you will also attempt to find Senators to sign on as sponsor or co-sponsor of a companion bill. > > Thank
