In an email letter dated June 16, 2008, Rep. Scott wrote, "I am an avid supporter of FUNDING our troops AS LONG AS THERE IS A DEFINED TIMELINE FOR WITHDRAWAL."  In a letter dated July 20, 2007 to the President, Rep. Scott, joined 68 other members of Confress in writint, "Mr. President...We are writing to inform you that we will ONLY SUPPORT APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL FUNDS for U.S. military operations in Iraq during fiscal year 2008 and beyond FOR THE PROTECTION AND SAFE RE-DEPLOYMENT OF ALL OUR TROOPS OUT OF IRAQ before you leave office."  (Emphasis added). 

The Henry County Chapter of the Georgia Peace & Justice Coalition HCC/GPJC today (June 19) faxed Rep. Scott's Chief of Staff, Michael Andel, and Legislative Director for Iraq isssues, Brian Greer, a letter imploring him to keep his word to the citizens of the 13th Congressional District of Georgia by VOTING NO on H.R. 2642, a supplemental appropriations bill that provides $165 billion to keep the war in Iraq going through June 2009.  The letter states that Amendment 2 to H.R. 2642, which passed the House on May 15, was not in the Senate bill voted on on May 22.  It is, therefore, not in the House bill being voted on today.   That amendment required that troops begin re-deployment from Iraq within 30 days with a goal of completing withdrawal of combat troops by December of 2009.  We said H.R. 2642 is not the right bill to carry the GI college benefits amendment and extension of unemployment benefits amendment.  The Administration has already signaled that it will support these measures and so these measures can be voted on separate from H.R. 2642, the war funding appropriations bill. 

The HCC/GPJC also early this morning (June 19) sent out on the GPJC mailing list statewide a detailed plea for activists to contact their House member through the switchboard with a message to vote NO on Iraq War funding (or if they are Republican, to vote "present" again as they did on May 15 because the reason for doing so--by-passing the committee process--remains the case and otherwise their protest vote won't mean anything.