Congress needs your creative input

Suddenly, change-course policies are a-borning all over the place. Interesting legislation of many kinds has finally got U.S Senate and House members struggling to address some of the most enormous and urgent issues facing the nation, and it’s clear that laws adopted now are going to have direct and probably immediate effects on whether or not the U.S. forcefully steers away from the brink of disaster or skids over the edge while pumping the brakes.

It feels as if we’re entering one of the greatest creative eras the country will have ever undergone - one, as in other times of great national crisis, in which we all have an active and measurable part in determining our own future.

We all need to pay attention, be informed and push for what we think will work best, so lawmakers will listen.  Here are a few of the most important bills to get familiar with:

American Clean Energy and Security Act, addressing global warming (and jobs); passed last week by the House, it’s now heading for the Senate 

Employee Free Choice Act , addressing business-managements’ anti-union tactics (and jobs), which may pass the Senate now that Democrat Al Franken has been officially declared the winner of Minnesota’s Senate race, giving his party the 60 votes needed to block a Republican filibuster 

Health bill, addressing health-insurance reform (and job benefits), is unnamed and still being constructed by members of Congress on committees including Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means. 

 Educate yourself. And then, whatever your position on these bills, call your Congress members and Senators – early and often.