The United States Senate is Failing America

Constitutionally, Congress is the federal deliberative body representative of the American People. We, the American People need, require - indeed, must demand insightful and knowledgeable, dedicated and committed Americans meeting their elected responsibility to provide leadership in the provisioning of the laws of the land, this America we call home.

The United States Congress is not doing its job. Congress is failing America. Senators and Representatives of the 110th Congress should be fired at the election box and replaced with those Americans able, ready, and willing to do the job.
[Source: "CONGRESS is FAILING AMERICA"]

The United States Senate is failing America. It is past time for Democrats and Republicans; it is time for Americans.

Your Responsibility as an American
Preserve, Protect, Prepare
It is time for Americans to assume individual and collective responsibilities of American citizenship. It is time for Americans to preserve their heritage, to protect their present, and to prepare for their future. It is time for Americans to act.

Being a Responsible American Citizen
What You, a Responsible American Citizen, Can Do and How to Do It
There are 100 Senators in the United States Senate. On November 4, 2008, Senators from 33 states of these United States of America will be up for reelection (12 Democrats and 21 Republicans). States electing Senators in November, 2008 are cited below. In those states, Senators whose term expires January 3, 2009 are detailed below.

Write, email, telephone, and/or FAX YOUR Senator. Is your Senator preserving your heritage, protecting your present, and preparing for your future? Contact information specific to your Senator can be accessed through United States Senate at http://www.senate.gov . See also "Contacting the Congress - Online Directory for the 110th Congress" at http://www.visi.com/juan/congress .

Some say the future isn't what it used to be. I say it is imperative we reclaim our future and make it as we would have it. The revolution starts with you, your business, your family, your community. You can direct and guide, shape and nurture, what happens here, now - into the future. Communicate and connect. You can be in charge. You can have a voice and a hand in what happens. And you must - our collective future depends on it.
[Source: "Believe Nationally - When in the Course of Human Events"]

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States electing Senators in November, 2008 are:
Alabama (Ala. or AL) Alaska (Alaska or AK) Arkansas (Ark. or AR)
Colorado (Colo. or CO) Delaware (Del. or DE) Georgia (Ga. or GA)
Idaho (Idaho or ID) Illinois (Ill. or IL) Iowa (Iowa or IA)
Kansas (Kans. or KS) Kentucky (Ky. or KY) Louisana (La. or LA)
Maine (Maine or ME) Massachusetts (Mass. or MA) Michigan (Mich. or MI)
Minnesota (Minn. or MN) Mississippi (Miss. or MS) Montana (Mont. or MT)
Nebraska (Nebr. or NE) New Hampshire (N.H. or NH) New Jersey (N.J. or NJ)
New Mexico (N.M. or NM) North Carolina (N.C. or NC) Oklahoma (Okla. or OK)
Oregon (Ore. or OR) Rhode Island (R.I. or RI) South Carolina (S.C. or SC)
South Dakota (S.D. or SD) Tennessee (Tenn. or TN) Texas (Tex. or TX)
Virginia (Va. or VA) West Virginia (W.Va. or WV) Wyoming (Wyo. or WY)

Democratic Senators Whose Term Expires January 3, 2009
Baucus, Max (D-MT)
Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (D-DE)
Durbin, Richard (D-IL)
Harkin, Tom (D-IA)
Johnson, Tim (D-SD)
Kerry, John F. (D-MA)
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R. (D-NJ)
Levin, Carl (D-MI)
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR)
Reed, Jack (D-RI)
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV)
[Source: United States Senate at http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Class_II.htm ]

Republican Senators Whose Term Expires January 3, 2009
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN)
Allard, Wayne (R-CO)
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA)
Cochran, Thad (R-MS)
Coleman, Norm (R-MN)
Collins, Susan M. (R-ME)
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Craig, Larry E. (R-ID)
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)
Domenici, Pete V. (R-NM)
Enzi, Michael B. (R-WY)
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)
Inhofe, James M. (R-OK)
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL)
Smith, Gordon H. (R-OR)
Stevens, Ted (R-AK)
Sununu, John E. (R-NH)
Warner, John (R-VA)
[Source: United States Senate at http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Class_II.htm ]

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As a backgrounder, note the Constitutional authorization for the election, this November, of 33 Senators.

CLASS - Article I, section 3 of the Constitution requires the Senate to be divided into three classes for purposes of elections. Senators are elected to six-year terms, and every two years the members of one class-approximately one-third of the Senators-face election or reelection. Terms for Senators in Class I expire in 2013, Class II in 2009, and Class III in 2011.

Class II - Senators Whose Terms of Service Expire in 2009
Senators in Class II were elected to office in the November 2002 general election. Their terms run from the beginning of the 108th Congress on January 3, 2003 to the end of the 110th Congress in January 2009.
[Source: United States Senate at http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/two_column_table/Class_II.htm ]
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Coming soon: "The United States House of Representatives is Failing America - Representatives Whose Term Expires January 3, 2009."