Mark Jacobs


po box 98901


lakewood, WA 98498


info@propagandapress.org




To: senatorlott@lott.senate.gov




Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott,


I am concerned that the Republican Senate leadership is not


allowing the Sudan Peace Act to go to conference committee.




Last summer, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly (422-2)


passed a bill -- dubbed the Sudan Peace Act -- that would bar


oil companies operating in Sudan from American capital markets and


help put an end to the on-going slave raids in southern Sudan.


The Senate then unanimously (97-0) passed a version of the bill.


The next logical step is for a House-Senate conference committee


to hammer out a final version of the bill.




Senator, the slave raids and destruction perpetrated by the


Sudanese government against its own black African population is a


crime against humanity. The stories of women and children abducted


into bondage break my heart. The people of southern Sudan have


been on the front lines of terror for nearly two decades. We must


do everything we can to stop this.




You can do your part by allowing the Sudan Peace Act to go to


conference. An overwhelming majority of congressmen and senators


-- in an unusual show of sweeping bi-partisanship -- want to see


a version of this bill passed. The House named its conferees --


both Democrats and Republicans -- last year! Senate Democrats


have twice tried to bring the bill to conference.




I do not understand why the Senate Republican leadership is


standing in the way of the democratic process. I implore you to do


all you can to send the Sudan Peace Act to conference.




Sincerely,


Mark Jacobs