Please read the purpose and history pages before sending nasty letters. You may want to review the Flag Page policy on flames.

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The Flag Consecration Amendment has been defeated by a vote of 63-36 in the U.S. Senate.
Although this is a victory for Freedom, America, and the Constitution, the fight is not over. We need to contact our Senators to let them know that ANY vote to repeal the First Amendment is unacceptable. Here's the Senate Roll call - how did YOUR Senator vote?

FLAG DESECRATION CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT (Senate - December 12, 1995)
Rollcall Vote No. 600 Leg.

YEAS--63 voted to reduce our freedoms Abraham Ashcroft Baucus Bond Breaux Brown Bryan Burns Byrd Campbell Coats Cochran Cohen Coverdell Craig D'Amato DeWine Dole Domenici Exon Faircloth Feinstein Ford Frist Gorton Graham Gramm Grams Grassley Gregg Hatch Hatfield Heflin Helms Hollings Hutchison Inhofe Johnston Kassebaum Kempthorne Kyl Lott Lugar Mack McCain Murkowski Nickles Nunn Pressler Reid Rockefeller Roth Santorum Shelby Simpson Smith Snowe Specter Stevens Thomas Thompson Thurmond Warner

NAYS--36 voted to protect the freedom the flag stands for Akaka Bennett Biden Bingaman Boxer Bradley Bumpers Chafee Conrad Daschle Dodd Dorgan Feingold Glenn Harkin Inouye Jeffords Kennedy Kerrey Kerry Kohl Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman McConnell Mikulski Moseley-Braun Moynihan Murray Pell Pryor Robb Sarbanes Simon Wellstone

Here's some links to help you track these rascals down

• Send an email (anonymous or otherwise) to important people via Interactive Democracy
  
• CapWeb - A Guide to Congress
  
• Contacting the 104th Congress by Juan Cabanela
  
• David W. Morgan's Congressional E-mail Address list
  
• Thomas, the invaluable guide.

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