Strategically planned, the bill presented to the 111th session of Congress for a Department of Peace was dropped in numerical order so as to maintain the number of House Resolution 808!

Read the bill. There are some small but mighty changes.

One change is that we have returned to the Department of Peace -- the "and Nonviolence" has been dropped.

Another change, requested by the campaign, focuses the bill on addressing violence in our own country. The bill now states that 85% of the appropriated money is spent domestically.

The appropriated money requested is stated in a dollar figure at $10 Billion, rather than cited as a percentage compared to the appropriations of the Department of Defense. This amount is equal to approximately 1% of the Federal Discretionary Budget, and -- depending on how much is spent by the Department of Defense -- equal to approximately 2% of the money appropriated to the Department of Defense.

The bill was presented with 62 co-sponsors, including Representatives Watson (D33), Waters (D35) and Sherman (D27), who were previous co-sponsors. If any of these are your Representatives, contact them directly and thank them for their support! www.congress.org

Come to Washington in March, to thank them in person, and to visit with and lobby the remaining Southern California representatives, and our Senators!

Check it out: http://www.thomas.gov

Search by the number 808, or by the text Department of Peace.