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PREVENT A FEDERAL HELMET LAW! Call/Write Your Senator Now! Take Action!

The AMA has learned that as soon as today (May 9, 2005) Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) will offer an amendment to the transportation reauthorization bill (SAFE-TEA) that will re-institute a federal helmet mandate. The amendment would penalize any state without a mandatory motorcycle helmet law for all riders by denying federal transportation and safety dollars to that state. Please write or call your Senators office and tell them to vote NO on the Lautenberg helmet amendment!
States should be able to determine their respective helmet policy free from the threat of federal sanctions. Congress affirmed this as recently as 1995 in the National Highway System Act when they removed federal penalties placed on states without mandatory helmet laws. Now, Senator Lautenberg is attempting to reinstate this form of federal coercion upon the states. That is why the AMA is encouraging you to contact your Senator and urge them to prevent a federal helmet mandate on motorcyclists by voting NO to the Lautenberg amendment within the SAFE-TEA bill.
Make your call nowuse the numbers provided below, or enter your zip code in the Take Action Now icon and click GO! to write your Member of Congress,

ALABAMA
Richard Shelby (R) 202-224-5744
Jeff Sessions (R) 202-224-4124
ALASKA
Lisa Murkowski (R) 202-224-6665
Ted Stevens (R) 202-224-3004
ARIZONA
John McCain (R) 202-224-2235
John Kyl (R) 202-224-4521
ARKANSAS
Blanche Lincoln (D) 202-224-4843
Mark Pryor (D) 202-224-2353
CALIFORNIA
Diane Feinstein (D) 202-224-3841
Barbara Boxer (D) 202-224-3553
COLORADO
Wayne Allard (R) 202-224-5941
Ken Salazar (D) 202-224-5852
CONNECTICUT
Chris Dodd (D) 202-224-2823
Joseph Lieberman (D) 202-224-4041
DELAWARE
Joe Biden (D) 202-224-5042
Thomas Carper (D) 202-224-2441
FLORIDA
Bill Nelson (D) 202-224-5274
Mel Martinez (R) 202-224-3041
GEORGIA
Saxby Chablis (R) 202-224-3521
Johnny Isakson (R) 202-224-3642
HAWAII
Daniel Inouye (D) 202-224-3934
Daniel Akaka (D) 202-224-6361
IDAHO
Larry Craig (R) 202-224-2752
Mike Crappo (R) 202-224-6142
ILLINOIS
Richard Durbin (D) 202-224-2152
Barack Obama (D) 202-224-2854
INDIANA
Richard Lugar (R) 202-224-4814
Evan Bayh (D) 202-224-5623
IOWA
Charles Grassley (R) 202-224-3744
Tom Harkin (D) 202-224-3254
KANSAS
Sam Brownback (R) 202-224-6521
Pat Roberts (R) 202-224-4774
KENTUCKY
Mitch McConnell (R) 202-224-2541
Jim Bunning (R) 202-224-4343
LOUISIANA
Mary Landrieu (D) 202-224-5824
David Vitter (R) 202-224-4623
MAINE
Olympia Snowe (R) 202-224-5344
Susan Collins (R) 202-224-2523
MARYLAND
Paul Sarbanes (D) 202-224-4524
Barbara Mikulski (D) 202-224-4654
MASSACHUSETTS
Ed Kennedy (D) 202-224-4543
John Kerry (D) 202-224-2742
MICHIGAN
Carl Levin (D) 202-224-6221
Debbie Stabenow (D) 202-224-4822
MINNESOTA
Mark Dayton (D) 202-224-3244
Norm Coleman (R) 202-224-5641
MISSISSIPPI
Thad Cochran (R) 202-224-5054
Trent Lott (R) 202-224-6253
MISSOURI
Christopher Bond (R) 202-224-5721
Jim Talent (R) 202-224-6154
MONTANA
Max Baucus (D) 202-224-2651
Conrad Burns (R) 202-224-2644
NEBRASKA
Chuck Hagel (R) 202-224-4224
Ben Nelson (D) 202-224-6551
NEVADA
Harry Reid (D) 202-224-3542
John Ensign (R) 202-224-6244
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Judd Gregg (R) 202-224-3324
John Sununu (R) 202-224-2841
NEW JERSEY
Jon Corzine (D) 202-224-4744
Frank Lautenberg (D) 202-224-3224
NEW MEXICO
Peter Domenici (R) 202-224-6621
Jeff Bingaman (D) 202-224-5521
NEW YORK
Charles Schumer (D) 202-224-6542
Hillary Clinton (D) 202-224-4451
NORTH CAROLINA
Elizabeth Dole (R) 202-224-6342
Richard Burr (R) 202-224-3154
NORTH DAKOTA
Kent Conrad (D) 202-224-2043
Byron Dorgan (D) 202-224-2551
OHIO
Mike DeWine (R) 202-224-2315
George Voinovich (R) 202-224-3353
OKLAHOMA
James Inhofe (R) 202-224-4721
Tom Coburn (R) 202-224-5754
OREGON
Ron Wyden (D) 202-224-5244
Gordon Smith (R) 202-224-3753
PENNSYLVANIA
Arlen Specter (R) 202-224-4254
Rick Santorum (R) 202-224-6324
RHODE ISLAND
Jack Reed (D) 202-224-4642
Lincoln Chafee (R) 202-224-2921
SOUTH CAROLINA
Lindsey Graham (R) 202-224-5972
Jim Demint (R) 202-2246121
SOUTH DAKOTA
Tim Johnson (D) 202-224-5842
John Thune (R) 202-224-2321
TENNESSEE
Bill Frist (R) 202-224-3344
Lamar Alexander (R) 202-224-4944
TEXAS
Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) 202-224-5922
John Cornyn (R) 202-224-2934
UTAH
Orrin Hatch (R) 202-224-5251
Robert Bennett (R) 202-224-5444
VERMONT
Patrick Leahy (D) 202-224-4242
James Jeffords (I) 202-224-5141
VIRGINIA
John Warner (R) 202-224-2023
George Allen (R) 202-224-4024
WASHINGTON
Patty Murray (D) 202-224-2621
Maria Cantwell (D) 202-224-3441
WEST VIRGINIA
Robert Byrd (D) 202-224-3954
John Rockefeller (D) 202-224-6472
WISCONSIN
Herbert Kohl (D) 202-224-5653
Russ Feingold (D) 202-224-5323
WYOMING
Craig Thomas (R) 202-224-6441
Michael Enzi (R) 202-224-3424