What's At Stake?
Tell Congress: Sign the Letter
See below for a copy of the letter, as well as a list of Representatives who have already signed on to the letter, organized alphabetically first by state and then by last name:
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing to inform you that we will only support appropriating additional funds for U.S. military operations in Iraq during Fiscal Year 2008 and beyond for the protection and safe redeployment of all our troops out of Iraq before you leave office.
More than 3,600 of our brave soldiers have died in Iraq. More than 26,000 have been seriously wounded. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed or injured in the hostilities and more than 4 million have been displaced from their homes. Furthermore, this conflict has degenerated into a sectarian civil war and U.S. taxpayers have paid more than $500 billion, despite assurances that you and your key advisors gave our nation at the time you ordered the invasion in March, 2003 that this military intervention would cost far less and be paid from Iraqi oil revenues.
We agree with a clear and growing majority of the American people who are opposed to continued, open-ended U.S. military operations in Iraq, and believe it is unwise and unacceptable for you to continue to unilaterally impose these staggering costs and the soaring debt on Americans currently and for generations to come.
Sincerely,
Rep. Artur Davis (AL)
Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ)
Rep. Ed Pastor (AZ)
Rep. Lois Capps (CA)
Rep. Anna Eshoo (CA)
Rep. Bob Farr (CA)
Rep. Bob Filner (CA)
Rep. Michael Honda (CA)
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA)
Rep. Grace Flores Napolitano (CA)
Rep. Richard Neal (MA)
Rep. Linda Sanchez (CA)
Rep. Hilda Solis (CA)
Rep. Pete Stark (CA)
Rep. Ellen Tauscher (CA)
Rep. Mike Thompson (CA)
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH)
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA)
Rep. Diane Watson (CA)
Rep. Henry Waxman (CA)
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (CA)
Rep. Diana DeGette (CO)
Rep. Chris Murphy (CT)
Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Rep. Corrine Brown (FL)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (FL)
Rep. Hank Johnson (GA)
Rep. John Lewis (GA)
Rep. David Scott (GA)
Rep. Neil Abercrombie (HI)
Rep. Dave Loebsack (IA)
Rep. Danny Davis (IL)
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (IL)
Rep. Phil Hare (IL)
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (IL)
Rep. Bobby Rush (IL)
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL)
Rep. Julia Carson (IN)
Rep. Bill Delahunt (MA)
Rep. Barney Frank (MA)
Rep. Stephen Lynch (MA)
Rep. Ed Markey (MA)
Rep. James McGovern (MA)
Rep. John Olver (MA)
Rep. John Tierney (MA)
Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD)
Rep. Albert Wynn (MD)
Rep. John Conyers (MI)
Rep. Keith Ellison (MN)
Rep. Betty McCollum (MN)
Rep. Jim Oberstar (MN)
Rep. William Lacy Clay (MO)
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (MO)
Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS)
Rep. G.K. Butterfield (NC)
Rep. Melvin Watt (NC)
Rep. Paul Hodes (NH)
Rep. Rush Holt (NJ)
Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (NJ)
Rep. Donald Payne (NJ)
Rep. Steve Rothman (NJ)
Rep. Yvette Clarke (NY)
Rep. John Hall (NY)
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (NY)
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY)
Rep. Gregory Meeks (NY)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY)
Rep. Charles Rangel (NY)
Rep. Ed Towns (NY)
Rep. Nydia Velazquez (NY)
Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY)
Rep. Marcy Kaptur (OH)
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (OH)
Rep. Earl Blumenauer (OR)
Rep. Peter DeFazio (OR)
Rep. Chaka Fattah (PA)
Rep. Steve Cohen (TN)
Rep. Rubin Hinojosa (TX)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX)
Rep. Ron Paul (TX)
Rep. Donna Christensen (USVI)
Rep. Jim Moran (VA)
Rep. Bobby Scott (VA)
Rep. Peter Welch (VT)
Rep. Jim McDermott (WA)
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI)
Rep. Gwen Moore (WI)

