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RUSH – CCHR Action Alert

US House Committee to Vote
on Mental Health Reform

One Day Left…

On Wednesday June 15 a House Committee will vote on the mental health reform bill — HR 2646: Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis (aka Rep. Tim Murphy’s bill)

This bill contains a section called “Assisted Outpatient Treatment” which sounds helpful, but actually allows forced psychiatric treatment on a broader range of people than is currently allowed by law.

How can Congress enact a law to force life-altering treatment, with known serious side effects, on someone against their will? The mental health “experts” don’t even agree on this.

This must be stopped.

If you live in Tennessee

Rep. Marcia Blackburn is the Vice Chair of this committee and needs to know your views. Please call her office at 202-225-2811 and let her know you live in Tennessee and you strongly oppose HR 2646, the Murphy Mental Health Bill.

If you are in her district (7), let her know and also send her an email.

If you do not live in Tennessee

Call your representative – the list for other states is below.

When you are done

Email letters@cchrtennessee.org and tell us what you did.

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS – NEAR TENNESSEE

MISSISSIPPI
Gregg Harper
202-225-5031, Email

NORTH CAROLINA
Renee Ellmers
202-225-4531, Email

Richard Hudson
704-786-1612, Email

G.K. Butterfield
202-225-3101, Email

ADDITIONAL CONTACTS – NATIONWIDE
Look up numbers at clerk.house.gov/member_info

CALIFORNIA
Anna Eshoo
Lois Capps
Doris Matsui
Jerry McNerney
Tony Cárdenas

COLORADO
Diana DeGette

FLORIDA
Gus Bilirakis
Kathy Castor

ILLINOIS
John Shimkus
Adam Kinzinger
Bobby Rush
Janice Schakowsky

INDIANA
Larry Bucshon
Susan Brooks

IOWA
David Loebsack

KANSAS
Mike Pompeo

KENTUCKY
Ed Whitfield
Brett Guthrie
John Yarmuth

LOUISIANA
Steve Scalise

MARYLAND
John Sarbanes

MASSACHUSETTS
Joseph Kennedy

MICHIGAN
Fred Upton

MISSOURI
Billy Long

NEW JERSEY
Leonard Lance
Frank Pallone

NEW MEXICO
Ben Lujan

NEW YORK
Chris Collins
Eliot Engel
Paul Tonko
Yvette Clarke

NORTH DAKOTA
Kevin Cramer

OHIO
Robert Latta
Bill Johnson

OKLAHOMA
Markwayne Mullin

OREGON
Greg Walden
Kurt Schrader

PENNSYLVANIA
Joseph Pitts
Tim Murphy
Michael Doyle

TEXAS
Joe Barton
Michael Burgess
Pete Olson
Bill Flores
Gene Green

VERMONT
Peter Welch

VIRGINIA
Morgan Griffith

WASHINGTON
Cathy McMorris Rodgers

WEST VIRGINIA
David McKinley