U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message

[tzaddi]

I received the following email from Dianne Feinstein this morning. I wrote to her on 07-18-2007. Very slow response time and the letter does not begin to address the thoughtful specifics that I had sent to her. She get's a "D-".

Dear Mr. Tzaddi:

Thank you for contacting me regarding health coverage for children. I appreciate the time you took to write and welcome the opportunity to respond.

I share your concern for the approximately nine million children in the United States who lack health coverage. I have been a strong supporter of Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which is a federal-state partnership designed to provide health insurance coverage to low-income children. Research has shown that 62% of uninsured children are eligible for a publicly-funded health program, but are not enrolled. To improve this situation, I have supported legislation to provide outreach to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children in these health programs.

On August 2, 2007, the Senate passed legislation to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program by a vote of 68 to 31. This legislation invests an additional $35 billion in this successful program, ensuring that all of the 6.6 million children currently enrolled in SCHIP can remain in the program. Additionally, the bill will cover 3.2 million new children who are uninsured today.

I strongly supported this legislation, which included a provision to increase the federal tobacco tax, with all revenue generated by the increase dedicated to the reauthorization and expansion of SCHIP. I appreciate hearing your comments about this important issue and will keep your thoughts in mind when considering the final version of this legislation.

Again, thank you for writing. Should you have any further questions or comments, please feel free to contact my Washington, D.C. office at (202) 224-3841. Best regards.

Sincerely yours,
Dianne Feinstein
United States Senator

[Darrell]

She sucks.

[kjjm4]

Seems like most of the responses are just form letters that assume you're writing in support of SCHIP. That response doesn't even look like Feinstein's staff even read anything you wrote.

I bet if you wrote an email with the title "Immigration Law" and the text was about something totally different, say gun control, you'd get a response thanking you for your support of immigration reform. My guess is that the staff member in charge of responding to emails just reads the subject line and sends the form response.

[jjefrey]

They don't even read the letters you send. I've written to her in the past urging her to vote no on a certain issue, and weeks later got a response thanking me for supporting the issue. It just goes to show that they could care less what the average citizen has to say.

[c2000]

If Bush vetos this tax he will be accused of not giving a hoot about children and supporting big tobacco..This guy for all his misgivings cannot win at anything...when in power both sides say they want to work hand in hand with the other but they have no intention of doing it..Its become politics of hate and I for one am sick of it but it will go on forever..

Jerry in (soon to be smoke free) Minnesota.

[ATLHARP]

Originally Posted by Darrell

She sucks.

F*ck her and the dim bulb socialist douche-bags that put her into office.


Democratic Party=


ATL

[tzaddi]

Originally Posted by ATLHARP

F*ck her and the dim bulb socialist douche-bags that put her into office.


Democratic Party=


ATL

Yea, but how do you really feel?

[jmcrawf1]

Originally Posted by ATLHARP

F*ck her and the dim bulb socialist douche-bags that put her into office.


Democratic Party=


ATL

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[kg6smx]

Originally Posted by kjjm4

Seems like most of the responses are just form letters that assume you're writing in support of SCHIP. That response doesn't even look like Feinstein's staff even read anything you wrote.

I bet if you wrote an email with the title "Immigration Law" and the text was about something totally different, say gun control, you'd get a response thanking you for your support of immigration reform. My guess is that the staff member in charge of responding to emails just reads the subject line and sends the form response.

DiFi's stance on gun control is to make it harder for us law abiding citizens to own guns, while she (at least at one time) held a concealed carry permit.

[glking]

It's all about controlling OTHER peoples lives.

[nimravus01]

Just goes to show you that once someone like her has her mind made up about an issue, she could care less what the reality of the situation is.

I believe that if there were absolutely zero shooting in America this year, she would still be on the war path to take away guns.

[davemo]

None of the responses I have gotten from politicians have ever really addressed my concerns. I especially like the ones where they say they will carefully consider my concerns (or some variant) when they continually vote against them. I guess thats what happens when they use stock responses...

[Nabinger16]

[SIZE=3]It's all about how important you feel because she took time out of her busy schedule to write a special reply specifically to you. You should be honored! [/SIZE]

[ATLHARP]

Originally Posted by tzaddi

Yea, but how do you really feel?

How do I really feel? I feel pretty, oh so pretty..........Nah, but this type of Bullsh*t grandstanding in politics has got to stop. I mere even the barest pretense of concern is clearly seen as nothing more than baseless opportunistic pandering. I mean it's even worse than Republicans in the 80's and 90's with all that family values ca-ca. Next thing you know they are gonna dig up MLK and say it's a Civil Rights issue!!

I have had it, what ever happened to doing the right thing?



ATL

[tzaddi]

Politics=Poly + ticks

Poly= greek root word meaning many.

ticks noun a parasitic arachnid that attaches itself to the skin of a terrestrial vertebrate from which it sucks blood, leaving the host when sated. Some species transmit diseases, including tularemia and Lyme disease. • Suborder Ixodida, order Acarina (or Acari). • informal a parasitic louse fly.

There are politicians and then there are "public servants" most of the time the two have nothing to do with each other.