URGENT- Re KYC Bill -READ THIS IF YOU LIVE IN US AND VOTE

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=============================================== URGENT ACTION ITEM! FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY =============================================== Watergate Office Building 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-mail: ggetz@CompuServe.com For information about the party: (800) ELECT-US =============================================== June 29, 1999 ===============================================

House may vote Thursday on measure to kill "Know Your Customer" rule

* Immediate action required! Please telephone your Representative

We've just been informed that the U.S. House may vote Thursday, July 1, on an amendment that would kill all "Know Your Customer" rules and regulations permanently.

The measure is called the Paul-Barr-Campbell Financial Privacy Amendment to HR 10. The amendment would accomplish all of the goals of the Know Your Customer Sunset Act (HR 516).

Please contact your House representative immediately and ask him or her to *support* this amendment.

Note that we can't be certain that this vote will actually take place on Thursday, but we're acting on the latest information available on Capitol Hill as of Tuesday evening. If we waited until we were certain of a vote, it would be too late to alert you!

Those of you whose House representative sits on the Rules Committee can play an especially important role. (See below.)

WHAT TO DO: Immediately call the Capitol Hill switchboard at 202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to your representative's office. Then politely tell the staffer, or leave a voice mail message, saying:

(1) You are a voter in their district, and leave your name, address, and telephone number.

(2) Ask them to vote YES on the Paul-Barr-Campbell Financial Privacy Amendment to HR 10 when it comes to a vote on Thursday.

The Capitol switchboard is open 24 hours a day, so please call regardless of when you get this message. If your representative has voice mail (and most do) you will be connected to their office. Please call if you get this anytime before late Thursday night.

Remember, call -- don't e-mail -- because there's not enough time for the office staff to download, print, and count e-mail messages before the vote.

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR REPRESENTATIVE SITS ON THE RULES COMMITTEE:

Look at the list of the 13 Rules Committee members below and see if one of them represents your district. If so, call 202-225-3121 or 202-224-3121 and ask to be connected to their office. Then tell them:

(1) You are a voter in their district, and leave your name, address, and telephone number.

(2) Vote to *ALLOW* a full House vote on the Paul-Barr-Campbell Financial Privacy Amendment to HR 10. Tell them you know this amendment would kill the Know Your Customer regulation, which is a violation of your financial privacy.

David Dreier (CA) Porter Goss (FL) John Linder (GA) Deborah Price (OH) Lincoln Diaz-Balart (FL) Doc Hastings (WA) Sue Myrick (NC) Pete Sessions (TX) Tom Reynolds (NY) John Joseph Moakley (MA) Martin Frost (TX) Tony Hall (OH) Louise McIntosh-Slaughter (NY)

-- Leo (lchampion@ozemail.com.au), July 01, 1999

Answers

sounds y2k related to me. thanks leo.

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-- corrine l (corrine@iwaynet.net), July 01, 1999.


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