Coalition Letters

Coalition to Congress: Oppose new Biometric ID plan

April 20, 2010 - 2:21pm

April 14, 2010

U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Re: Oppose Schumer/Graham Biometric National ID Proposal within Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Dear Representative:

Open letter re: destroyed Justice Dept. emails

March 11, 2010 - 7:52pm

Liberty Coalition and other organizations sent out this open letter yesterday to key members of Congress urging them to follow through on their oversight responsibilities and investigate why so many emails have disappeared from the Department of Justice.

Liberty Coalition, others urge Obama to activate Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

March 2, 2010 - 5:12pm

March 1, 2010

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

In November 2009, many of the undersigned organizations wrote to you to express our concern over the lack of nominations to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). We write again, with increased urgency, to encourage you to appoint individuals immediately.

U.S. House told: Support transparency in health care legislation

January 22, 2010 - 8:24pm

January 20, 2010

Dear Representative:

On behalf of an ideologically diverse coalition of millions of Americans, we write to strongly urge that you sign the discharge petition for H. Res. 847. Introduced by Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL), this petition would force a vote on a bipartisan "Sunshine Resolution" to call on Congress and the Obama Administration to conduct all negotiations surrounding landmark health care reform legislation "in full public view and not behind closed doors."

Transpartisan Coalition calls for Hold on Bernanke Reconfirmation until Fed is Audited

December 2, 2009 - 11:25pm

December 3, 2009

Dear Members of the U.S. Senate:

In the last two years, the Federal Reserve Board has lent several trillion dollars to banks and other private companies, financial and non-financial institutions through a series of special lending facilities. The total amount of loans made through facilities exceeds the annual budget of the United States. In addition, it guaranteed trillions of dollars of various assets and also made hundreds of billions of dollars available to several foreign central banks through currency swap arrangements.