Then, keep calling every day - and get friends and family to call - until there's a vote on the Resolution. Watch for news about this at the committee website: http://wwwc.house.gov/international_relations/index.htm and see below for a list of IR Committee members, cosponsors, the text of the Resolution, the Downing Street documents and more. Use AfterDowningStreet's Lobby Kit to persuade your Congress Person: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/538

Get your Member's D.C. telephone number here: http://www.house.gov/

Ask for the Legislative Director or the person in charge of Iraq or foreign policy, express your strong support for the Resolution of Inquiry (ROI), and request the Representative join the growing number of cosponsors. If they tell you that the representative will *not* be cosponsoring H. Res. 375, ask for specific reasons. Ask what it would take for the Representative to co-sponsor.

If your Representative is a Republican, explain that Rep. Jim Leach from Iowa - a top-ranking Republican on the International Relations Committee - is already cosponsoring. If your Representative is a Democrat, explain that Leach and Tom Lantos, the Ranking Democrat on the International Relations Committee, are now cosponsoring. Ask: How can a Democrat refuse to cosponsor when a top Republican is consponsoring?

We need THREE total Republicans on the International Relations Committee and ALL of the Democrats to cosponsor for H. Res. 375 to pass from the Committee to the House for a floor vote - see below for members of the IR Committee. For every Democrat who refuses to cosponsor, we need an additional Republican.

Even if your Representative is not on the IR Committee, we need them as cosponsors, *not* just as supporters of the Resolution. If the ROI fails in committee, we'll need massive cosponsorship in the House.

We also need specific information to follow up on these calls. Find out if your Representative seems willing or reluctant to cosponsor and then report back to us at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1887

Current cosponsors: http://www.house.gov/lee/roi/roi.htm

We can't assume your Congressperson is aware of these materials. If they need to know more about the Resolution or express uncertainty, ask for a fax number and / or email address to send copies of the Resolution of Inquiry and the actual Downing Street Minutes to the Representative or staffer(s). Fax or email these materials to them. You can get them here:
One-page PDF of the Resolution of Inquiry: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/roi-onepage.pdf

Link to the ROI (scroll down): http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/902

One-page PDF of the first Downing St. Minutes also known as the Downing Street Memo from July 23, 2002: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/dsmemo.pdf

Link to the Downing St. Minutes: http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/1

If your Representative signed Rep. Conyers' letter of 5/5/05 Calling on the President to Answer Questions Concerning the "secret Downing Street memo" but hasn't agreed to Cosponsor HRes 375, you should mention that. Here's a PDF list of Members of Congress who signed the letter: http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/letters/bushletterlistofsigners.pdf

Here's a PDF of the letter itself: http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/letters/bushsecretmemoltr5505.pdf

Members of the International Relations Committee