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Tune in to Life, Liberty & Levin for the Convention of States plan to restore America!

On August 19 Mark Levin will interview COS President Mark Meckler and Senior Advisor Tom Coburn on his Fox News show.

For the full hour.

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Fox News Channel 10:00pmET/7:00pmPT

That's right. An entire hour of television dedicated to educating Americans about Article V of the Constitution.

An entire hour of television on how Convention of States empowers citizens to help drain the swamp and save America. 

Don't miss it!

Mississippi viewers will be especially interested, because of how close the movement came to victory there in 2018.

The time was ripe to effectively drain the Swamp.  The grassroots and legislative supporters were poised to make Mississippi the 13th state to pass the Convention of States Resolution (HCR 56, sponsored by Rep. Dan Eubanks) calling for an Article V Convention of the States. 

HCR 56 was the Resolution that would have allowed Mississippians to join with their sister states to propose amendments that would impose fiscal restraints on Washington, and reduce the scope and jurisdiction of the Federal Government. The Mississippi State House of Representative demonstrated tremendous courage and passed HCR 56, with a bi-partisan vote of 76 to 42, on March 22rd, 2018. 

All that remained was for a majority of 27 in the Mississippi State Senate to demonstrate the same courage.  Given that there were 25 Sponsors and Co-sponsors, and an additional 6 pledged to support the Senate’s companion Resolution SCR 644, the Mississippi Team was confident of an affirmative vote in the Senate.

However, the Mississippi Team received a gut-punch on the morning of Saturday March 24th.  Senator Angela Hill, our primary Sponsor in the Senate, informed our leadership that the resolution had died in the Senate Rules Committee on a voice vote!  The Committee Chairman stated that, “It sounded to me like 3 to 1 against.”  This disconcerted the Team. The Committee was composed of 2 Sponsors of the resolution and 2 opposed to the resolution.  The Chairman had pledged that he would be the tie- breaking vote in favor of the Convention of States Resolution.

What happened?  Unfortunately, we just don’t know. Our primary Senate Sponsor, Sen. Angela Hill, was told that the issue had been taken off the agenda; therefore, we had no one present to witness the events.  All we have are conflicting reports of what transpired behind a closed-door meeting.  The events on the evening of March 23rd happened in a vacuum and without transparency.

Consequently, over 13,000 Convention of States supporters throughout Mississippi were denied their right to be heard on the Resolution through their Senators.   The will of the people of Mississippi and the vast majority of their legislators was thwarted by a few who didn’t have the courage to go on record.  This is the Swamp in action.

We can’t let this happen again in 2019.  It is up to you and me to take the necessary actions.  We must demand transparency of our Mississippi State Senate, and we must demand that the members of the Senate Rules Committee vote in favor of the Convention of States Resolution next session.  This is too important of an issue to allow it to be killed behind closed doors, with a “voice vote” that does not put any of its members on record.

Please contact the following individuals and request their support in moving the Convention of States Resolution to the Senate floor in 2019.

Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves 601-359-3200 ltgov@senate.ms.gov
Sen. Terry Burton, Chairman 601-359-3209 tburton@senate.ms.gov
Sen. Tommy Gollott 601-359-2886 tgollott@senate.ms.gov
Sen. Josh Harkins 601-359-3246 jharkins@senate.ms.gov
Sen. John Horhn 601-359-3237 jhorhn@senate.ms.gov
Sen. Gray Tollison 601-359-2395 gtollison@senate.ms.gov

 

 

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Physicians for COS

The diagnosis is clear.

We have a growing cancer today known as the Obamacare. As a result physicians are no longer free to practice medicine.

No profession feels the full force of the federal government more than physicians. The medical profession is the most highly regulated profession in the United States. The practice of medicine is controlled, taxed, and regulated to the point of being destroyed by the heavy hand of the federal government.

Physicians are told how to bill, how much to charge, and how to treat patients. They are mandated to use expensive electronic medical records. The federally enacted HIPPA (Health Information Privacy and Portability Act) makes the communication between physicians and atients burdensome, inefficient,and expensive. Every physician is required by federal mandate to register with the government to obtain an NPI (national provider identifier.) We are required by federal law to obtain and pay for a license to prescribe medication through the DEA, which is separate from our state licensure.

This heavy hand of government not only oversees the largest federal health bureaucracy ever created, but by extension reaches into every state, every city, and every small town to regulate how every licensed physician practices the art of medicine and how citizens obtain care.

The treatment is also clear.

The prescription for a cure was written into our constitution by our founders. Article V of our constitution allows for the states to call for a convention of states to limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government through the proposal of constitutional amendments. Physicians should be the strongest supporters of this brilliantly-crafted states’ rights tool placed into our constitution by our founders.

I urge my fellow American physicians to join with me in supporting an Article V Convention of States to take back control of the practice of medicine. It’s the only way that we can return the practice of medicine back to the intimate relationship between a doctor and patient without interference by the heavy hand of a distant, national government.

Jeffrey I. Barke, M.D. Family Physician Newport Beach, CA
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